The Conservatives have won the Norwich North by-election with a majority of more than 7,000.
The winning candidate Chloe Smith, 27, will become the House of Commons' youngest MP when she takes her seat after the summer recess.
It was the first Westminster election since the MPs' expenses furore.
The former MP, Labour's Ian Gibson, quit when the party barred him from standing at the next general election over his expenses claims
I like this story it's encouraging short but sweet. Now if throw the crooks out would catch on here we might be able to dismantle the the Axis of Anti America evil Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. We could then maybe force some logic back into the discussions and actions in Washington DC.
People need to stand up to and end this Axis before they get Obama's way.
Barack Hussein Obama: "Mar 15, 2008 ... "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it".
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else".
Sir Winston Churchill
David Cameron has inflicted a humiliating byelection defeat on Gordon Brown as the Conservatives beat Labour into second place in Norwich North.
In the first electoral test since the MPs' expenses scandal rocked Westminster, the Tories' Chloe Smith won the Norfolk seat with a majority of 7,348 and, aged just 27, becomes the youngest MP in the Commons.
Labour's defeat, in a seat held comfortably by the party since 1997, is the fifth byelection blow Brown has suffered since he took over at No 10.
If the result was repeated across the country in a general election, the Tories would be swept to power with a Commons majority of 218, analysis by the Press Association news agency showed.
I feel a conservative revolution coming in our once-proud parent country!
But it is a long time till national elections and all it takes is a **** up by the conservatives and they back at even with labour.
Conservatives have nothing to **** up and Labour/Brown have done so horrifically that it wouldn't matter. So they pretty much have these elections in the bag. It is almost 90+% certain Parliament will go blue next year.
And even if they did mess up, the public trust Cameron more than Brown or Labour in a recent poll so suggests that it wouldn't matter.
And the incumbent was not kicked out, he was told he was deselected and barred for standing again next election. He threw a fit and resigned triggering a by election
This is in the North, Labour stronghold.
It is the 3rd by election lost by a massive swing to conservatives and the devestating loss, 7,000 majority cannot be shrugged away in a place where Labour have held for 12 years
Granted, I don't follow British politics particularly closely, but even before the expenses scandal many seemed to treat it as a foregone conclusion that the torries would be taking over the majority in the next election. Maybe I was mistaken, but didn't the expenses scandal also include quite a few torries and LDPs as well?
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Brown will not be happy.
Norwich has been in Labour hands for a decade
Laila, what is a "by-election" as opposed to a regular general election, or is there a difference at all?
Laila, what is a "by-election" as opposed to a regular general election, or is there a difference at all?
But when it comes to a national election the question is if the labour supporters will turn out or not, and if they do will they risk 4 years of a conservative government by "protest" voting or not turning out.. time will tell.
Yeah, I think I remember seeing that LDP's numbers had gone up more than the conservatives', but it seemed that even without the expense scandal David Cameron was going to walk into No. 10.
It is a good victory for the Conservatives but there are significant extenuating circumstances for Labour.
I just realised something.
The chances are Thatcher will die under a Conservative Govt. rather than a Labour one. I wonder if they would dare to give her a state funeral. Blair and Brown both shelved it.
The expenses scandal in Britain was broken exclusively by one newspaper; the Daily Telegraph. This paper is a respectable right of center broadsheet, but undoubtedly has a conservative bias, it even gets nicknamed the Torygraph. Although all parties were targeted the focus was on the government. This was despite many of the most outrageous abuses coming from the Conservatives - fixing a moat, building a duck house, etc.
The MP who was deselected for the next election in Norwich and subsequently stood down was actually one Labour's worst offenders. He sold his second home in London (an entitlement for non-London MP's) for half its market value to his daughter.
He was quite popular in Norwich however, showing nicely how people can love their local representative whilst hating the overall body of which they are a part. This led to Labour voters staying at home on election day as the below graph should demonstrate:
It is a good victory for the Conservatives but there are significant extenuating circumstances for Labour.
It looks like the Labour voters went to Greens and UKIP.
why did the LD lose votes? I would have thought, with the gains the other parties made, they would have gained most of the labour protest votes.
It looks like the Labour voters went to Greens and UKIP.
why did the LD lose votes? I would have thought, with the gains the other parties made, they would have gained most of the labour protest votes.
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