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Originally Posted by Neil
Here Over in Rishton the Country's youngest Councillor, Claire Hamilton, can get back to what most young people do, clubbing and generally have fun because, she lost her Labour seat last night to Tory Jennet Liddle.
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Your a complete an utter assh*le Neil and thats saying it straight. Jennet Liddle wasn't interested in Rishton. She moved there to get a Rishton postal address, did litle campaigning and spent all election day in Clayton. Claire worked her socks off and loved Rishton.
In then end the Rishton result says it all. 2000 votes cast, we should have lost it by 500. In the end we lost by 20 odd. We lost the postal vote (which went out to voters on the 26th ie Hewitt, Prescott, Clarke 10-1 votes in favour of the Tories and there were 400 postals cast). So the walk up vote was massively for Claire Hamilton. Rishton has got someone who does n't give a t*ss about Rishton and lost a very hard working popular Councillor. Like I said Neil, if you can see any sense in that result for Rishton then you are a screw loose mate.
Gayle will make a great councillor (if she wants another go) and Claire will come back. What is sickening is we voted out 4 honest hard working ordinary people Gayle - Claire - Rob Kearney - Tim O'Kane and replaced them with people who are not interested in the ordinary person or working for them. No wonder Hyndburn is collapsing. (Exhange St, Princess St, Horne St, Clement St, Augusta St and even parts of Ossy are getting worse). Another 7 years of Tory rule and Hyndburn will be unrecogniseable from the once proud towns it knew. Sad night for the ordinary folk. A victory for easily influenced voter.