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Survey: Harrow MPs would lose
7:00am Monday 22nd September 2008
THE largest ever study of marginal seats has predicted defeat for both Harrow’s Labour MPs.
A poll, carried out for PoliticsHome.com, suggests Gareth Thomas, Harrow West, and Tony McNulty, Harrow East, would lose to Tory rivals Rachel Joyce and Bob Blackman if a general election were called today.
They are among dozens of Labour politicians expected to face the axe in a wipeout big enough to mirror the defeat of the Conservatives in 1997.
The survey asked almost 35,000 people across 238 marginal constituencies how they would vote, and the results forecast a dramatic collapse for the party across much of the southeast.
If it is accurate, eight ministers will be among those to go and David Cameron will oust Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, with a 146 seat majority.
The news follows mounting pressure for a leadership contest from a number of MPs, including Barry Gardiner, Brent North, who resigned as envoy for forestry.
Neither of Harrow’s MPs have broken ranks and Mr Thomas last week gave Mr Brown his backing, while at the same time saying Labour needed to “raise its game”.
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Richard_at_Harrow, Harrow says...
1:17pm Mon 22 Sep 08
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 it 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
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Gareth Thomas, MP for Harrow West.
Tony McNulty, MP for Harrow East.
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Richard_at_Harrow, Harrow says...
12:55pm Mon 22 Sep 08
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 increased taxes and public sector borrowing exceeding £100billion. This will wreck the UK. Gordy won’t jump and the wimps in Noolabour won’t push him