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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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orangina · 05/05/2010 14:22

Oooh, aubergines, we are in the same area! I have a feeling that SB will get in too

Aubergines · 05/05/2010 14:20

Ours is a new constituency and supposedly a key battle ground between Lab (Andy Slaughter) and Cons (Shaun Bailey). I think the Cons will get it as it requires a 4.5% swing and nationally they are on course for more than that now.

Policy - aren't you going to come back and defend the object of your desires from the accusation he only communicates via Twitter?!

expatinscotland · 05/05/2010 14:19

Alan Reid, Lib Dem.

Hope he gets in, but if he doesn't it will be SNP.

Tories are as rare as hen's teeth around here.

katiepotatie · 05/05/2010 14:13

Alistair Darling - I hope he gets voted in again. I like him

Kathyjelly · 05/05/2010 14:13

James Plaskett, Lab. He's been a good constituency MP as far as I can tell and not caught up in the expenses thing but I think he's toast. The GB effect.

I feel a bt sorry for him (James Plaskett, I mean) but he's a professional politician and I suppose that's an occupational hazard. A shame to lose the years of experience though.

AbsOfCroissant · 05/05/2010 14:09

JEALOUS of the person with Esther Rantzen standing in her constituency. I would vote for Esther (shallow), because she looks like my lovely great aunt.

Mine is Frank Dobson, Labour. Been labour around here for yonks, so don't expect much change, but the tories, libdems and BNP seem to think they have a chance (the BNP one's a bit odd, considering how many people in my area are immigrants).

helyg · 05/05/2010 14:05

My MP is Mark Williams (Lib Dem).

He only has a majority of 219 over Plaid Cymru, so it is anyone's guess which one will get in.

It won't be Labour or Conservative though, in 2005 if you added their votes together it still came to far less than either the Lib Dems or Plaid got.

PfftTheMagicDragon · 05/05/2010 14:04

My MP is Julie Kirkbride.

She is stepping down, but suspect we will remain Tory. Am trying to decide whther to vote Labour in hope of shoving the Tories from their long held throne.

blueberrysmoothie · 05/05/2010 14:04

Sadiq Khan here too. Nice bloke and a good MP. Horrified at the prospect of Mark Clarke. Definitely a big fight though - we have been receiving leaflets from both on an almost daily basis so loads of money must have been poured into the campaigns. Quite quite nervous...

notcitrus · 05/05/2010 14:01

Keith Hill (Labour, Streatham) is retiring.
It's between Chuka Ummuna (Lab) and Chris Nicholson (LD).

It's on a knife-edge - even Ladbrokes and Betfair are giving them both the same odds! I think if it rains then the LDs might have a better chance than if it's a sunny day and more people go to vote who might not otherwise.

GetOrfMoiLand · 05/05/2010 13:55

LoveLuton stop posting the same old shite across all the political threads, you ol' spammer.

loveLuton · 05/05/2010 13:51

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fedupwithdeployment · 04/05/2010 23:18

I am in Tony McNulty's seat...until Friday I predict. He claimed approx £60k for his parents' house in Harrow while living with wife a few miles away. He has a slim majority so I predict that a rather smug looking Bob Blackman will get in for the Tories. I have voted LD, but they are currently in 3rd place.

becksydee · 04/05/2010 23:11

jeremy corbyn (labour) here - it's a very safe seat, none of the other parties stand a chance. i don't mind too much though (despite being a dyed-in-the-wool LD supporter), he's an excellent MP. if only more labour MPs were like him!

Rindercella - my parents are in tony baldry's constituency, any mention of his name in their household is usually accompanied by at least one swear word ... and always by the word lazy and/or useless

SlartyBartFast · 04/05/2010 22:58

charles hendry here, very blue.
in 2005 he had 52% and the lib dem had 23%, the labour 17%
feel my vote is just a drop in the ocean

TheFirstLady · 04/05/2010 22:44

Just googled Mark Clarke. He sounds even worse than the Conservative candidate where I'm living and I didn't think that was possible. Good luck for the next 48 hours guys. Keep on plugging.

animula · 04/05/2010 22:37

[Hi Zephirine.]

Think we could start a "google your candidates" campaign here?

ZephirineDrouhin · 04/05/2010 22:33

Sadiq Khan here too. Didn't really believe that vile Mark Clarke had any chance of taking Tooting so I'm horrified to hear this jafina.

animula · 04/05/2010 22:10

Hello, First Lady - yes, though probably should be a little more circumspect.

Yes, I thought it was pretty safe, and I thought the Con candidate actually a bit of a joke, but it seems not to be the case. Which is very, very shocking.

I've been out delivering leaflets, but not chatting (fear I'd be a liability). I shall think of you pounding pavements as I wander about now.

TheFirstLady · 04/05/2010 22:06

Are you in Tooting, Animula? I campaigned there for Labour in the 1997 election. It was a reasonably safe Labour seat then (although we still worked the phones and the doorsteps very hard), I am amazed to see it is likely to go Tory this time.
I was 7 months pregnant with DD1 at the time and I remember feeling shattered but determined my child would be born in a Labour constituency under a Labour government. I stayed up all night and went into work the next morning ecstatic.
Now DD1 is 12 and thinks Nick Clegg is the chosen one! Go figure!

digitalgirl · 04/05/2010 21:47

Lynne Featherstone - Lib Dem. I'm hoping she stays.

Rindercella · 04/05/2010 21:43

Tony Baldry. Cons. He will still be there on Friday, no doubt at all. Cameron's country pad is not a million miles away.

Drive along the country lanes round here, and it is true blue all the way.

animula · 04/05/2010 21:43

Sadiq Khan (Labour) here, too. He voted against the war, has always come back to me when I contacted him about anything ... rather like him.

Con candidate already seems the sort to make us deeply embarrassed should he be elected.

Which I didn't think likely, but now ... .

Allidon · 04/05/2010 21:38

Our out-going MP is Jim Devine, and due to him being charged with expenses-related fraud he won't be standing obviously. Ours is a pretty safe Labour seat, but our MSP and council are SNP so I wouldn't be surprised if it swung that way.

epithet · 04/05/2010 21:36

Jim Knight, who I believe was the only Labour member to increase his majority in the 2007 election .

However, as that was largely down to the bizarre antics of the then Tory candidate, and we are still perilously marginal, I fear his quadruple-barrelled Tory rival might get in on Thursday .

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