Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Canterbury going labour.
What’s the post-mortem on this one ??
Big slap in the face for the Tory’s
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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First time in a hundred years so a great upset. Labour put up a good candidate that mobilised the large student population but Brazier had become very unpopular in not opposing a planned massive housing development and watching the downgrading of the hospital whilst doing nothing.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Julian Brazier turned up at the NHS rally the weekend before the General Election. He was given short shrift. Social media was rife with it been like the murderer attending the funeral. To say he had become unpopular is an understatement.
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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it was probably the new inflow into the old army housing that tipped the vote.
canterbury is getting a new hospital, but they will close the old one before its built ??
totaly disjointed thinking.
I think as a politician he took his eye of the ball in his own back yard.
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Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
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Amazing result well done to the Labour candidate
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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he lost it by 187 votes he must be kicking himself .
Reginald Barrington
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Considering that around a third of canterbury students have this same week finished their degrees and buggered off home, must make it even harder.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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the 200 families they moved out of London bedsit land into Canterbury, wouled of tipped it
and they are building a 600-bed accommodation block next to the cop shop ,,convenient
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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[QUOTE="Keith Bibby"]the 200 families they moved out of London bedsit land into Canterbury, wouled of tipped it
No chance Keith, they were shipped there only because they were living in hostels/B and B in Ilford, people in that situation very rarely vote as they don't think any party is interested in them.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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they wouled have been rounded up , just like Folkestone Road
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Keith Sansum1
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It's a great result 170 years a tory seat The Conservative MP like many across the country took the people for granted.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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they have to work for it today keef
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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And that's the great thing, IM all for it.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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It amazes me that the number of new & late registrations didn't give the game away.
Poor intelligence.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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could be massif voter fraud in a city with 2 university if students got to vote twice ??
Brian Dixon
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over zealous bosting by a pot head keith.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I have checked everywhere and can find no accusations, let alone evidence, of impropriety in Canterbury
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Even Brazier the Tory not making any such suggestion.
The students got themselves organised and people of Canterbury not happy of Brazier in the hospital fight
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Jan Higgins
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He would, he courts the headlines in a way the rest of us need air to breathe.
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