I’d be amazed if Hazel Blears stood again, although she has been much more harshly treated than people whose conduct has been at least as bad. But whether or not she does, her seat is now wide open.
And, like the North West in general, it is potentially very fertile territory indeed for a candidate who was prepared to give a pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker and anti-war voice to economically social democratic, morally and socially conservative British and Commonwealth patriots whose One Nation politics placed an equal emphasis on the One and on the Nation, and who were conservationist rather than environmentalist.
So, where is that candidate?
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Oh Blears is toast.
ReplyDeleteArrogant and over-promoted, she would be a good local councillor and her verbose non-answers on Question Time etc and BLiar Babe tendency meant she would not survive.
When you talk of the kinda candidate who SHOULD do well in North West, you are talking much missed "Catholic" candidates.
You are prolly too young to remember "Bill Brand" syndrome....the process of squeezing out working class Catholic anti abortion folks and replacing them with bearded Polytechnic (oops red brick Uni types).
"When you talk of the kinda candidate who SHOULD do well in North West, you are talking much missed "Catholic" candidates."
ReplyDeleteThey wouldn't actually have to BE Catholics, although I suppose a lot of them would be, in the North West especially.
"You are prolly too young to remember "Bill Brand" syndrome....the process of squeezing out working class Catholic anti abortion folks and replacing them with bearded Polytechnic (oops red brick Uni types)."
Oh, I know EXACTLY what you mean...