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1:40am Friday 27th June 2008
John Howell, the Conservative candidate, has comfortably won the Henley by-election with 19,796 votes.
Marking Gordon Brown's first anniversary as Prime Minister, Labour Party candidate Richard McKenzie was beaten into fifth place with a meagre 1,066 votes - losing his deposit.
Perhaps more surprising was that Labour was beaten by the Green Party and BNP candidates.
ricky, oxford says...
2:25am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page, Guildford says...
8:07am Fri 27 Jun 08
Eddy Grundy, Ambridge says...
8:27am Fri 27 Jun 08
chas, says...
8:49am Fri 27 Jun 08
Knee Jerk, says...
9:21am Fri 27 Jun 08
Bnp beat Labour in Henley.
Now there's a surprise.
BNP- working class party?
You bet!!
Knee Jerk, says...
9:24am Fri 27 Jun 08
My right, Oxford says...
9:24am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page, Guildford says...
9:56am Fri 27 Jun 08
Knee Jerk wrote:It's a Tory stronghold. Has been for years. Tells me all I need to know about the social mix there.
Bnp beat Labour in Henley. Now there's a surprise. BNP- working class party? You bet!!One swallow doesn't make a Summer. i.e. This does not prove your point. If/when they score a large number of votes in a predominantly 'working class' (whatever that is) area what will you say then? It does show that a growing number of people (worringly) believe that voting for this lot is the answer though. By the way, have you been to Henley and I don't mean just the regatta? If you explore the area a little you'll find a wide range of wealth and (what you'd call) social classes, it's reputation as a picture postcard town is quite misleading.
Alan Page, Guildford says...
10:00am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:Besides there are places like Barking and Dagenham where the BNP have managed to convince people with social anxieties that its immigrants (especially asians) that are to blame.
Knee Jerk wrote:It's a Tory stronghold. Has been for years. Tells me all I need to know about the social mix there. The fact you deny the existence of social difference merely indicates its a rather sheltered area.Bnp beat Labour in Henley. Now there's a surprise. BNP- working class party? You bet!!One swallow doesn't make a Summer. i.e. This does not prove your point. If/when they score a large number of votes in a predominantly 'working class' (whatever that is) area what will you say then? It does show that a growing number of people (worringly) believe that voting for this lot is the answer though. By the way, have you been to Henley and I don't mean just the regatta? If you explore the area a little you'll find a wide range of wealth and (what you'd call) social classes, it's reputation as a picture postcard town is quite misleading.
Al, Dublin says...
10:10am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page, Guildford says...
10:46am Fri 27 Jun 08
David, wantage says...
11:54am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:Since when did you need your opinions confirming?
Just been watchng videos of Timothy Rait and his pals on You tube.
Pretty much confirms my opinions.
Alan Page, Guildford says...
12:41pm Fri 27 Jun 08
David wrote:Oh, all the time.
Alan Page wrote: Just been watchng videos of Timothy Rait and his pals on You tube. Pretty much confirms my opinions.Since when did you need your opinions confirming?
Mr Ison, England says...
6:38pm Fri 27 Jun 08
DanOxford, says...
1:48am Sat 28 Jun 08
Alan Page, Guildford says...
7:25am Sat 28 Jun 08
DanOxford wrote:Too right I would have voted for 'Dear Old Bob'. Now there's a man who would knock the bourgeois out of Britain
Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
L.B., Wallingford says...
1:27pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Bob, says...
1:59pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:Ah, so you're against power gained through things like wealth but for power gained through violence AND wealth, interesting...or not, what an irrelevant human being you are.
DanOxford wrote: Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.Too right I would have voted for \'Dear Old Bob\'. Now there\'s a man who would knock the bourgeois out of Britain
Knee Jerk, says...
2:00pm Sat 28 Jun 08
It is still a bourgeois led party and thus of no real relevance to estate dwellers
Rockabilly Dude, Half Way To Memphis says...
5:07pm Sat 28 Jun 08
BBC: apology, Abingdon says...
8:47pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Alan Page, Guildford says...
12:13am Sun 29 Jun 08
Bob wrote:Hey Bob/Dan/sockpuppets are us, if you want to hold conversations with yourself all very well and good just keep me out of it.
Alan Page wrote:Ah, so you're against power gained through things like wealth but for power gained through violence AND wealth, interesting...or not, what an irrelevant human being you are.DanOxford wrote: Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.Too right I would have voted for \'Dear Old Bob\'. Now there\'s a man who would knock the bourgeois out of Britain
Alan Page, Guildford says...
12:16am Sun 29 Jun 08
L.B. wrote:Oh, I am sitting pretty here. We've just had a pub closed down because of junkie infestation.
Alan Page, obviously one of life's wastes of space and no real use to the world with views like his, and not even from this area! Go back to the hole that is Guildford and leave us to enjoy the great Thames Valley.
Alan Page, Guildford says...
12:26am Sun 29 Jun 08
DanOxford wrote:There's hilarious passage in "Time Was" where W.Graham Robertson describes his amazement at being asked to write a ballad to accompany a ballet in one of Shakespeare's plays.
Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
L.B., Wallingford says...
7:12pm Sun 29 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:You obviously have no grasp of geography either, who mentioned Oxford? Henley is 25 miles from Oxford.
L.B. wrote: Alan Page, obviously one of life's wastes of space and no real use to the world with views like his, and not even from this area! Go back to the hole that is Guildford and leave us to enjoy the great Thames Valley.Oh, I am sitting pretty here. We've just had a pub closed down because of junkie infestation. Third safest place in the country to live apparently. As opposed to Oxford which is not only the 11th most dangerous outside London. Not such a dump really.
Mary T, Oxford says...
10:19pm Sun 29 Jun 08
John, Oxford says...
1:41pm Tue 1 Jul 08
Good On Us, Marston says...
8:12pm Fri 4 Jul 08
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Mr Ison, England says...
1:49am Fri 27 Jun 08
The Tories probably emulate the US Gubernatorialist and win the deceased vote.