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MP: council will put off voters

10:26am Tuesday 23rd September 2008

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A LABOUR MP has said Harrow Council will put residents off voting Tory after a poll predicted he would lose his seat.

Gareth Thomas, MP for Harrow West, said members of his constituency would stand by him despite the forecast of a survey of marginal seats which predicted he would fall to rival Rachel Joyce.

He said: “I think when a general election is called people at that point recognise that there's a choice.

“They will have a choice between Conservatives in Harrow who have managed to get it rated the worst run council in London and Labour who managed to get £25m to create new sixth forms and £30m for Whitmore High.”

But Mr Thomas' rival was not convinced and said she gets positive feedback from residents about her party's performance.

Ms Joyce, the Conservative candidate for Harrow West, said: “The reception on the door step is very positive and very good.

“People appreciate what we are doing both nationally and locally. People are fed up with them both nationally and locally but it is just one poll.”



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Richard_at_Harrow, Harrow says...
11:56am Tue 23 Sep 08

Yeah – dream on Gareth – you must have a really low opinion of the electorate if you think Harrow will back you. Mr Prudence is running around trying to avoid a knife in the back while triple A banks are folding.
How could 10 years of prudence have got us here? The same way that Mr Prudence wrecked our pensions and allowed cheap credit to fuel an unsustainable housing boom. He was too busy taxing us to death:- The total tax burden has risen by 51% in real terms (during the so-called ‘good’ years) under noolabour and with the recession the forecast is for a PSBR exceeding £100billion and/or further tax increases. This will wreck the UK and certainly won’t help Harrow. Prudence Gordy won’t jump and the wimps in noolabour won’t push him. New money for Harrow schools? – Could Gareth tell us how much Harrow contributes in tax revenue? It’s not a ‘handout’ from the government because it is our money. London is a net contributor to Treasury coffers. Gareth (a member of the Worst Government ever in the UK ) again repeats the Audit commission rating from March 2007. What he never reveals is that the assessment was based on the March 2006 Council Budget. Who set that budget? It was passed by the soon to be kicked out failed Noolabour administration.

Richard_at_Harrow, Harrow says...
12:04pm Tue 23 Sep 08

Some more gems to contemplate over…..(Source Taxpayers Alliance)
Stamp Duty up 314% under noolabour.
The UK has the 5th largest budget deficit out of 30 developed countries.
Pension funds have lost £100billion to Gordy since he started his pension raid in 1997. The final salary scheme is now as dead as a dodo – thank you gordy.
Real disposable income grew on average 2.6% between 1996 and 2007. Between 1986 and 1996 they grew 3.2%.
Britain fell from 7th to 17th in an international comparison of reading literacy between 2000 and 2006. Ooops……
According to the European Central Bank – the UK gov wastes £99 billion a year.
The National Audit Office estimates that fraud and mistakes in the benefits system alone amount to £2.6billion.

From an OECD Report: 45% of UK GDP goes in tax – up from 37.5% in 2000.
From an OECD Survey of children’s scientific literacy: – we were 4th in 2000, now we’re 14th. Ooops !
Gordy says he will do better. He has only had 10 years to do better. The UK is bust.
Darling says ‘he is a good leader’. Who will rid us of these oafs ?

Richard_at_Harrow, Harrow says...
3:13pm Tue 23 Sep 08

The Foreign Secretary was embroiled in controversy last night after he was overheard by a BBC reporter telling an aide: “I couldn’t have gone any further. It would have been a Heseltine moment.”
Go on David, make my day – you’re probably wondering whether you’ve got 6 MP’s or 60 MP’s behind you. Well you know – in all this excitement – I’ve kinda of forgotten myself….Do you feel lucky punk ?

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