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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote2009-04-03 08:00 am

Linkspam and Tweets

Daily collection of links and thoughts that weren't worth a whole post.

  • 12:56 Just took over from @johnbm from telling in the #skircoat by-election #
  • 13:48 My Tory teller colleague has been replaced by a certain Cllr Keith Watson. He who defected from us just after reelection. #skircoat #
  • 16:12 Telling at a different station, just took a number from a girl who looked about 12. i'm getting old. #skircoat #
  • 20:14 Been out knocking up in the most confused set of back terraces ever. Now back telling for the last shift, then home. #skircoat #
We lost by 118 votes out of over 3000 cast. Ah well, was a good showing and we can build on that once the Independents are out o the picture, I'll put more on Halifax Lib Dems later.
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[identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hard luck... only 18 votes in it in the end. Who were the two independents?

[identity profile] maddock-ist-rad.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
7.5% BNP oO

Maybe paying 12 year old girls to go in with fraudulent slips is their new strategy ;>

[identity profile] maddock-ist-rad.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
6.5% even, I can't count. Must be some aggressive campaigning up there anyway.