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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

I'm sorry to keep labouring the point (pun noticed but ignored), but I really do think that while a local candidate might keep the more inbred "he might be useless but, at least he's one of our own" faction mollified. it does nothing for the borough if said local candidate just sits on the backbenches and does what Greg Pope and his predecessors have done for the last forty odd years. We need someone with a bit of umph and, dare I say it, personality. Someone who stands out and through whom the borough can get itself noticed. Currently the rest of the country is only aware of Accrington as the home of the 'Pals' and the bricks, in case no one has noticed, the 'Pals' are all dead and so is the brickworks.

And I'm sorry but, even though Ms Storey might be quite a nice person really, do we really want to project an image of the borough that is parochial, overweight and style challenged???

You'd prefer a more high profile politican, someone like Jack Straw?

Personally I'd be happy for whoever it is to be working hard for the people of the borough, period, and it doesn't necessarily follow that a cabinet minister would do that any better than a back bencher. Indeed they might have less time to work on behalf of the borough.