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Originally Posted by JCB
If you are Mr Pritchard can you answer a question which has been puzzling me ?
Why did the Conservatives not field a candidate in the Milnshaw Ward ? Rather unusual of them .
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It looked like a puzzler to me too, but I think I have a plausible answer, ( though Malcolm may come back and correct me after he has finished reading his Fisher Price" My First Book of using big words and stringing a sentence together").
My theory is that if the Tories had put anyone up in the ward there was an outside chance they would lose, so by hedging their bets and leaving Malcolm and Clare ( coincidentally implicated in all that mess just before polling day)to slug it out ,they, ( meaning Mr Britcliffe) now have Maleable Malcolm to deal with in Council chambers rather than Clare, who can speak English, form a sentence and actually knows what Party she represents.
Or am I reading too much into this??
