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Originally Posted by jaysay
Okay Rindi your trying to save face or Labours face, the point is Hyndburn is not a natural Tory seat, We have a Labour MP and 6 Labour County Councillors, we have to work very hard to stay in control, always have and always will, but the fact is, that local people can see that the Tory run council have financially turned the Borough around, Okay everything ain't as good as it could be, but you can only move forward on the back of a sound financial base, and you have the people with the business nous to implement that way forward
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It's not my job to save face, as again I'm non-partisan.
I dispute the fact that 'Hyndburn is not a natural Tory seat'.
The country, and this area, have changed from the old rule of manufacturing areas being Labour, and leafy suburbs being true blue. Afterall for most of the Thatcher years this constituency had a Conservative M.P.
I'm genuienly suprised that locally Labour didn't take more of a bashing in Hyndburn, which it appears to have done in the rest of the country. The loss of one seat is neither here nor there.