Staying up for the long night ahead? Then’ll you need to know what to look out for and when the key results will come in.
Here is your definitive print out and check off guide to Election Night 2012…
Courtesy of Jag Singh.
BREAKING Nadine Dorries is to be suspended from the Tory Pary pending an urgent meeting with Chief Whip Sir George Young
— James Chapman (@jameschappers) November 6, 2012
Source: whip is to be withdrawn from Nadine Dorries until she can explain herself in face-to-face meeting with Chief Whip
— James Chapman (@jameschappers) November 6, 2012
Something bugging them?
Eric Pickles on Nadine’s trip to the jungle:
“I’ll obviously miss her and I’m going to have to struggle on bravely without her. But I, like a loyal friend, will be voting to keep her in as long as possible. I shall be ringing in religiously every week to keep her there.”
Labour’s newly selected by-election candidate for Croydon North is clearly not very confident about his victory chances. Lambeth Council Leader Steve Reed has announced that he will not resign his position unless he wins the nearby seat. The hard-working people of Lambeth will be paying for Reed to campaign for the Labour Party rather than representing them.
Then again, anyone who has ever come across Steve and his work will know that campaigning for Labour rather than representing the people has always been his mantra – not least with his poster campaign against government cuts that was paid for at the expense of other local services. Facile largire de alieno…
The Tories are always denying that UKIP are a threat, but once again the cat has been let out of the bag. Over in Maidenhead they have suffered an embarrassing council by-election defeat at the hands of their LibDem counterparts. Simon Werner beat his blue opponent Catherine Hollingsworth by a grand total of eight votes, as the UKIP candidate took dozens of votes away from the Tories. Council leader David Burbage in no doubt as to who is to blame:
“It is unfortunate that, largely thanks to UKIP, the residents of Pinkneys Green have missed out from electing a very effective councillor in Catherine Hollingsworth. The last thing that people who voted UKIP would have wanted would be a boost to the pro-EU Lib Dems.”
Fast forward to 2015 and we could be seeing a similar thing on a much larger scale…
