Well the good news for Cambridge voters is that with the Conservatives almost neck-and-neck with Labour in total votes across the city in May and a fast dwindling Liberal Democrat vote, there really is everything to play for in Cambridge and every vote will count.
But there's no need to take our word for it - this job advert for the Labour party in Cambridge states:
Cambridge is a demanding but rewarding challenge. It is now becoming a 3 way marginal!
2 comments:
I was very glad to see you elected, and indeed to see a wider 'rainbow' of colours on the city council with the election of an independent and green, thus breaking into the lib dem monoculture.
But the idea that a city which has at last a single conservative councillor (and a good one at that!) out of 42 seats could be somewhere where there a conservative MP is possible did make me laugh!
At least the lib dems and David Howarth are strongly against the ID card scheme, and with the prospect of a Tory government nationally, hopefully that money-wasting scheme might be buried, to the relief of anyone technologically-minded in Cambridge.
It's certainly good that our current MP is against ID cards and I know that some would-be Conservative voters voted Lib Dem for that reason in 2005 but fortunately we've reverted to the right policy on this. I was quite impressed with the Labour's PPC's bravery for standing up at a NO2ID meeting and trying to defend ID cards once!
However, in wider terms, I really don't think the Lib Dems can be relied upon to oppose Gordon Brown in a hung parliament - we've already seen our MP break his manifesto commitment on a referendum for the repackaged European constitution in the astonishing spectacle of a whipped abstention (the whip was changed to 'against' in the Lords by the way for the same issue).
It's certainly going to be a challenge for Conservatives in Cambridge but with both the other parties' support having plummeted significantly the election should really be a three-way fight and that's clearly how Labour at least are seeing it.
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