Lib Dems take council seat from Tories (From This is Hampshire)
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Tories lost Fareham Borough Council seat in by-election
10:20am Friday 10th December 2010 in News
THE Conservatives lost a Hampshire council seat to the Liberal Democrats last night.
Nursery boss Nick Gregory won a Fareham Borough Council by-election with 933 votes.
His closest rival in the Fareham West ward was Tory Stephen Day with 687.
The by-election was called after Conservative Diana Harrison retired due to ill health.
The result still leaves the Tories with a huge majority of 23 councillors to eight Lib Dems. There are no Labour councillors.
Turnout was 35 per cent.
Comments(6)
Paramjit Bahia
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12:30pm Fri 10 Dec 10
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Obviously voters in this case weren't paying attention to news yesterday, when Lib-Dems ditched their manifesto commitment and voted for even higher student fees than under NuLabour
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Oh well it is democracy, we must respect the will of the voters, who I have no doubt will live to regret in the long run.
beekay
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12:32pm Fri 10 Dec 10
Linesman wrote:Lots.
I wonder what promises were made.
I wonder what promises will be kept.
Few.
Whoever won.
DCM
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1:41pm Fri 10 Dec 10
Condor Man
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2:17pm Fri 10 Dec 10
HillsidePaul
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6:29pm Fri 10 Dec 10
Not exactly anything to boast about, but since it only took about 30 seconds on the HCC web site to find this out it nicely highlights the p#'s poor journalism standards at the Echo
Linesman says...
12:06pm Fri 10 Dec 10
I wonder what promises will be kept.