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Who is your MP? What is your prediction?

162 replies

alysonpeaches · 03/05/2010 17:51

Mine is John Healey, labour, and I strongly suspect a labour victory here as its never been anything else.

Who holds your constituency and will they return?

(trying to get away from the depressing threads)

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insertexpletive · 08/05/2010 12:16

Amidaiwish - we live in the same Borough

Council as a whole has moved from Lib-Dem to Conservative. Quite close, but I think C got 30 seats and LD 25!

amidaiwish · 07/05/2010 14:30

interesting, Vince Cable got in here, but for the council elections a move to 3 conservative seats.

NomDePlume · 07/05/2010 07:51

This 'Worcester Woman' didn't but it would appear that a few did, given that Robin is now our MP with a just under 3000 majority. So my prediction was right. He seems like a decent bloke. I hope he does a good job for us, despite his political leanings

snowlady · 06/05/2010 21:55

I think the Worcester Woman will vote tory this time. Peter Walker was a fairly decent tory so I expect his son will be popular.

ouryve · 06/05/2010 19:46

We used to have Tony Blair and Phil Wilson was elected in his place in 2007 with a much smaller majority. It's an ultra-safe labour constituency, so I doubt if he'll be ousted, despite that.

picc · 06/05/2010 19:33

oh my god!! there's 2 of them!

I was talking about the Michael Foster who's MP for Hastings and Rye!

Ah well... maybe that explains why we have different impressions of him The Hastings guy grew up there and is a decent bloke, honest!

NomDePlume · 06/05/2010 19:11

Yes picc, Worcester was held by the Tories for 30+ years before Foster got in in 97.

Batteryhuman · 06/05/2010 18:49

Jeremy Twunt Hunt here had a comfortable majority last time but the Lib Dems got within 1,000 votes in 2001 so here's hoping they can remove the smug grin off his face, the only one who can out-smug Cameron.

picc · 06/05/2010 18:38

NomDePlume, I grew up in Michael Foster's constituency, and I think you're right he's in danger.
It was blue blue blue for eons before he got in.
Shame really, I actually thought he'd done a decent job, and at least he's originally from there (unlike our MP here: the parachuted-in Charles Clark). He fought it for ages even when it was a fairly safe Tory seat.
We'll see....

NomDePlume · 06/05/2010 17:46

he's been here since '97 with his holding margin getting narrower every election with the Tories coming right up the rear in 2005. Foster only won by just over 3000 votes. Not much.

boredonasunday · 06/05/2010 17:45

sleepychunky we are in the Fat Controller's constiuency as well - grrr. Lib Dems do seem to work very hard around here - Serena thingy was even outside our school the other day.

NomDePlume · 06/05/2010 17:33

Michael Foster, Labour.

He was one of loudest voices in the call to ban hunting with dogs. All very good and all that but he has done naff all else that I can see.

I have a feeling that this seat will turn blue. The chap is very nice and has been VERY proactive in his campaigning. Door knocking, leaflet dropping, community projects, newspaper articles, you name it. If that effort translates to votes then we'll be a blue seat tomorrow.

I've not seen hide nor hair of Mr Foster. I've seen our local labour councillor chap, he was out canvassing, but Foster is nowhere to be seen

I have voted labour on both sides - local and national. Even though, ime the Tory candidate is nice and my labour MP is a nobber, I can't give the Tories a seat. I just can't do it.

Lib Dems have postered and stuck those yellow diamond "We're winning here" things up everywhere but I haven't seen a single Lib Dem canvasser, local councillor wannabe or HoP hopeful.

gagamama · 06/05/2010 17:30

Tessa Jowell here too. I think it's reasonably safe, about 5% swing if I remember correctly.

YouKnowNothingofMyVote · 06/05/2010 17:12

Robert Goodwill, Con. Marginal seat (Labour until the last election when numbers voting Tory were pretty unchanged but fewer voted Labour).

There's something very wrong with a poor, Northern Constituency having a Conservative MP.

Hulababy · 06/05/2010 17:05

My local MP is Nick Clegg, Lib Dem. I suspect he will be holding onto his seat.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 06/05/2010 17:02

My brother is voting John Healey.

Mine is Lib Dem

sleepychunky · 06/05/2010 17:01

We have Nicholas Soames aka Fatty Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill and possibly the largest MP ever. There is not a chance of anybody else getting in despite the numerous Lib Dem boards I have seen all over the place. If it were a case of voting in whoever has worked hardest to get our vote, it would be Lib Dem. Labour candidate hasn't even bothered to send us any leaflets, and the BNP candidate is a 23-year old marketing accountant (whatever that is..)

amidaiwish · 06/05/2010 16:51

Vince Cable here

pretty safe seat and a good MP. but he might just have a run on his hands this time, the Tory MP Deborah Thomas seems with it, and good. Last time it was some weird looking ugly numpty bloke.
plus massive issue over the LibDems giving away twickenham riverside to property developers (now on hold as developers are bust) and rejecting the local referendum where 96% voted against the plans, so there may be a surprise in store, you never know.

however judging by the number of orange banners about, i think he will be ok!

ShadeofViolet · 06/05/2010 16:12

Vernon (Rodney) Coaker here. He is labour and I hope he keeps his seat as he does alot for our local area.

I did laugh when I saw his full name on the ballot though

redrobin · 06/05/2010 15:54

eglu, i'm david mundell too. I'm voting labour though.

Eglu · 06/05/2010 15:53

We have David Mundell, currently the only tory in Scotland. I doubt he'll be the only tory for long though.

Think he will get back in tbh.

Xayna · 06/05/2010 15:44

Tory MP here - John Penrose. We're just round the corner from you Dannyblanchflower (and just like you, it's my first post!).

Whether he'll get in again? I hope not. It was a Tory seat for years and then the Lib Dems won it with a very small margin, held it for a couple of elections and lost it again.

My interest in the Lib Dems winning is compounded by the fact that the candidate is a good friend of ours, so fingers crossed and who knows, we could be having the MP round for dinner in the future!

awayfromhome · 06/05/2010 15:03

another justine greening here - expect that she will win..

heather1980 · 06/05/2010 14:58

we have the out going david chaytor (lab) money grabbing f***.
will be tight this year i think.

last time labour only had a 3000 vote majority and our council is hung lab/con so could go either way i feel.

we used to have alistair burt as our mp until he was beaten in 1997. his wife was one of my guiders!.

abr1de · 06/05/2010 14:32

We have a tight-but-reasonably-secure Tory majority. Our local MP is responsive and gets involved a lot, so I support him. I also like him because he once helped me stack some chairs at a fund-raiser. He didn't have to--nobody was looking.

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