Comments on: Penistone and Stocksbridge

By: Keith Jenner

Keith Jenner — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:26:07 +0000

Wow, tasteful smearing Ian. McBride would be proud.

By: ian

ian — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:57:54 +0000

Good point. There was a letter in the local paper some time ago that said the Tory candidate had a donation from South Africa refused (he grew up in apartheit South Africa and went to an Afrikaaner university). The fact that he tried to accept the donation in the first place shows that he’s not too fussy about where his money comes from.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:50:20 +0000

The Tories campaign in Penistone has been part financed by Lord Ashcroft. I wonder if the Tory candidate will now cease to use Ashcroft as main source campaign funding. I guess thats perhaps excepting too much, without his [Ashcroft's] ‘unlimited funds’ I very much doubt this Tory campaign would have got off the ground in the first place!!

By: kenilworth

kenilworth — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:24:34 +0000

William Hill have opened their book on this seat and installed Labour as 4/9 favourites, with the Tories at 9/4 and the Lib-Dems 9/1. So, you pays your money and makes your choice!

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:27:03 +0000

Don’t worry Keith, as usual, the Labour apologists have to set up a straw man to knock down in order to claim a victory.

Since I haven’t read you claiming that the seat is going to go Tory, I don’t know why they are so insistant that it will be held by Labour. Perhaps its like Houghton and Washington where they are seriously crowing that the seats will be won by Labour.

If they weren’t, that would be a real shock of course. It does seem to suggest Labour’s ambitions are not high for the electon if they are spending so much time trying to convince us that they can win seats like these!

By: Keith Jenner

Keith Jenner — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:20:54 +0000

“So now your saying a 10,000 majority is really a 3000 majority, come on get real”

Nope, I’m not saying anything like that.

If you want reading lessons I’m sure you can get them somewhere.

By: get real

get real — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:18:52 +0000

Keith

I’m not the same person and you have not answered the points I have raised. The information I have is from the national Tories, Labour and Lib Dems and freely available data.

So now your saying a 10,000 majority is really a 3000 majority, come on get real

Tell you what I’ll share the data I have if you share the data which makes you believe this is a 3000 majority seat.

By: Keith Jenner

Keith Jenner — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:13:34 +0000

Richard,

Shadsy’s odds are interesting, as the Conservative odds seem to be similar to seats where the Labour majority is about 3,000 less. I think that’s probably a slight understatement, but it shows that they expect us to perform better here than UNS would suggest.

You’re certainly right about people being desperate to prove we can’t win, although the last post reads very similarly to previous ones. Just changing the name is not going to fool anyone.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:45:59 +0000

There’s some references to the Sheffield Euro results being available by ward.

Does anyone have details?

Also, it seems to me that some people are desperate to ‘prove’ that the Conservatives cannot win here.

Shadsy doesn’t agree.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:26:41 +0000

Yes, that is a good point – thanks Keith.
An outside chance perhaps if the Tories go further ahead, and the LD vote is squeezed given the national circumstances.