Harman claims Labour are serious about Eastleigh by-election

Harriet Harman on the campaign trail with Labour candidate John O'Farrell. Harriet Harman on the campaign trail with Labour candidate John O'Farrell.

LABOUR’S second-in-command has denied her party is fighting the byelection with the sole intention of splitting the vote.

Deputy leader Harriet Harman said their candidate, John O’Farrell, was serious about winning an historic victory for Labour by returning their first MP in generations in the constituency.

She said: “We are not doing any political games here, we are just putting forward a very strong candidate with a strong platform to speak up for Eastleigh in some very difficult times.

“We are down here because people in Eastleigh are facing problems, worries about whether their kids are going to get their first job, whether or not they will be able to get a home of their own, whether they are having to cut back on things or whether their standard of living can be improved.

“We are not here to second guess the voters or predict the outcomes of byelections, we are here to see how people have had their confidence broken by the Tories and the Lib Dems.

“We are encouraging people to vote Labour and we have every confidence in an excellent candidate.

“Unfortunately too many or our predictions about the effect of the Lib Dems/Tory Government’s economic policies have come true and the difficulties are only getting worse and the Government will not change course.”

Comments(18)

freefinker says...
11:36am Mon 25 Feb 13

.. I suppose you have to pretend you are in it to win; no point in standing otherwise. But I think Ms. Harperson knows full well they are fighting to retain third place against the protest vote being attracted by UKIP.

OK, my cards on the table, here’s my analysis. The LibDems will lose many votes, not because of Huhne but due to their treachery in getting into bed with the Tories and tearing up their commitments, especially on tuition fees.

However, the Tories will also lose votes, mainly to UKIP as many of their more out of touch supporters can actually vote for their ‘Little Englander’ beliefs at a by election without affecting the overall outcome at Westminster.

So, who wins? I think the Tories by a small margin. Behind these two a good showing from UKIP will knock NuLabour into fourth place. National Health Party hopefully retaining their deposit in fifth. Of the rest, I expect at least one candidate to beat TUSC.

Dan Soton says...
12:03pm Mon 25 Feb 13

freefinker wrote:
.. I suppose you have to pretend you are in it to win; no point in standing otherwise. But I think Ms. Harperson knows full well they are fighting to retain third place against the protest vote being attracted by UKIP.

OK, my cards on the table, here’s my analysis. The LibDems will lose many votes, not because of Huhne but due to their treachery in getting into bed with the Tories and tearing up their commitments, especially on tuition fees.

However, the Tories will also lose votes, mainly to UKIP as many of their more out of touch supporters can actually vote for their ‘Little Englander’ beliefs at a by election without affecting the overall outcome at Westminster.

So, who wins? I think the Tories by a small margin. Behind these two a good showing from UKIP will knock NuLabour into fourth place. National Health Party hopefully retaining their deposit in fifth. Of the rest, I expect at least one candidate to beat TUSC.
freefinker says.. I suppose you have to pretend you are in it to win



Iain MacLennan is only carrying out a Blackmail threat for the NHA Gangster party

The Wickham Man says...
12:05pm Mon 25 Feb 13

freefinker wrote:
.. I suppose you have to pretend you are in it to win; no point in standing otherwise. But I think Ms. Harperson knows full well they are fighting to retain third place against the protest vote being attracted by UKIP.

OK, my cards on the table, here’s my analysis. The LibDems will lose many votes, not because of Huhne but due to their treachery in getting into bed with the Tories and tearing up their commitments, especially on tuition fees.

However, the Tories will also lose votes, mainly to UKIP as many of their more out of touch supporters can actually vote for their ‘Little Englander’ beliefs at a by election without affecting the overall outcome at Westminster.

So, who wins? I think the Tories by a small margin. Behind these two a good showing from UKIP will knock NuLabour into fourth place. National Health Party hopefully retaining their deposit in fifth. Of the rest, I expect at least one candidate to beat TUSC.
Seems fair.

LancashireLad says...
12:10pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Labour must be desperate to involve Harriet Harperson in this by-election; the woman responsible for the most sinister social engineering experiment of the nation, probably the most politically correct hypocritical feminist in the House of commons: Her so called Equality laws have done much to create the big brother, thought police society we have today. All in the name of equality and diversity which no one dare argue against of course or you will be shouted down , intimidated or prosecuted in the courts. This is what the champagne socialists are all about. So if you want more of the same vote Labour but if you want freedom from these intolerant left wing liberals then vote for Diane James and the UK Independence Party.

LancashireLad says...
12:19pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Labour trendy lefties have come down from London en masse, they know they face humiliation in Eastleigh currently on 13% behind UKIP on 21% and rising. Why waste your vote on these champagne socialist who wouldn't know a working class person if they fell over them. No this lot are the London political elite who you only see at election time, the rest of the time they are telling you what you can say and think all in the name of political correctness and Harriet Harpersons, unequal equality, where tiny militant minorities trump all before them. Please don't forget how terrible it was under Blair & Brown, (13 years of hurt)...it would be much much worse if that's possible under Miliband, Harman & Balls & co. ...the intolerant left.

Stephen J says...
1:12pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Sounds to me like the UKIP manifesto really was written some 40-odd years ago. Who are they against? "Wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, "Play For Today", Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?"

They realise the sort of people they're going to attract, don't they?

Lone Ranger. says...
1:12pm Mon 25 Feb 13

LancashireLad wrote:
Labour trendy lefties have come down from London en masse, they know they face humiliation in Eastleigh currently on 13% behind UKIP on 21% and rising. Why waste your vote on these champagne socialist who wouldn't know a working class person if they fell over them. No this lot are the London political elite who you only see at election time, the rest of the time they are telling you what you can say and think all in the name of political correctness and Harriet Harpersons, unequal equality, where tiny militant minorities trump all before them. Please don't forget how terrible it was under Blair & Brown, (13 years of hurt)...it would be much much worse if that's possible under Miliband, Harman & Balls & co. ...the intolerant left.
Why bother to vote for UKIP ...... its another aoutfit that will be done and dusted in acouple of years apart from Farage.
.
He will continue his great work in the EU reaping his £65k salary plus £?m in exes and continue with the usual scaremongering of millions of Bulgarian refugees.
.
Vote UKIP = Tory ...... Vote Lib Dem = Tory ........ Vote Tory = You must be out of your minds.
.
Mind you good monotonous boring party political broadcast from ukip ..... again and again

LancashireLad says...
1:43pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Stephen J wrote:
Sounds to me like the UKIP manifesto really was written some 40-odd years ago. Who are they against? "Wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, "Play For Today", Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?"

They realise the sort of people they're going to attract, don't they?
Stephen that was so funny I couldn't stop laughing... well done mate, it is so nice to meet someone in politics who has a good sense of humour, pity we can't say the same for the New Labour left wing elite and trendy PC liberals who take themeselves far too seriously and only usually laugh when they are ridiculing and intimidating someone who disagrees with their warped and twisted idiology ( all in the name of Equality & Diversity of course) ... Militant minorities Rule OK!... sod the silent majority hey Stephen!

Ben Durutti says...
1:51pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Lancashire Lad: What do you think of Marine Le Pen leader of the French Front National recently saying she is in regular & close contact with Tory Toff Nigel Farage? Seems a bit odd for a UK independence party to be so close to French fascists...

Paramjit Bahia says...
2:26pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Lone Ranger. wrote:
LancashireLad wrote:
Labour trendy lefties have come down from London en masse, they know they face humiliation in Eastleigh currently on 13% behind UKIP on 21% and rising. Why waste your vote on these champagne socialist who wouldn't know a working class person if they fell over them. No this lot are the London political elite who you only see at election time, the rest of the time they are telling you what you can say and think all in the name of political correctness and Harriet Harpersons, unequal equality, where tiny militant minorities trump all before them. Please don't forget how terrible it was under Blair & Brown, (13 years of hurt)...it would be much much worse if that's possible under Miliband, Harman & Balls & co. ...the intolerant left.
Why bother to vote for UKIP ...... its another aoutfit that will be done and dusted in acouple of years apart from Farage.
.
He will continue his great work in the EU reaping his £65k salary plus £?m in exes and continue with the usual scaremongering of millions of Bulgarian refugees.
.
Vote UKIP = Tory ...... Vote Lib Dem = Tory ........ Vote Tory = You must be out of your minds.
.
Mind you good monotonous boring party political broadcast from ukip ..... again and again
Lone Ranger,

Considering I canvassed for your candidate, I only wish your dream may get realised. BUT I am afraid it most definitely is not going to happen.

In fairness of Harriet Harman and many others like John Denham have given this by-election their best shot.

But by stitching up the selection, the Party has undermined their efforts from the very start.

While fooling the membership and the public by enacting the drama of democratic selection of candidate the so called leadership (which in fact has started to resemble dictatorship of champagne socialists) in reality was involved in typical NuLabour sham/scam.

Selection was a stitch up, to favour a comedy writer who has turned out to be a complete clown.

Secrets of what the mobsters at the top of your party actually wanted have now come out. NuLabour begged another lady (Fiona Phillips) from media world to be their candidate, but when even she refused they found their second choice with similar background, because real intention of the NuLabourites is not to have hard working MP who may serve the people but more and more of spin doctors like certain Prince of Darkness Peter Mandelson.

Is this not yet one more proof that when Miliband announced the NuLabour is dead, he was not telling the real truth?

NuLabour is still alive, which people of Eastleigh are likely to reject, because they very rightly deserve and want The Labour.

In my view with both Lib Dem and Tories while in bed in London and at each others throats in Eastleigh plus U kippers harming Tory votes this by-election was easily winnable by NuLabour provided the behaved like The Labour i.e. decent candidate with reputation for having his own mind and record of working for the people plus experience.

Yes NuLabour has put lots of resources in the campaign, I hope for your beloved party's sake I get proven wrong, but sadly the campaign is being run according to DIY manual 'How to lose elections' by lots and lots of geeks.

I am aware that there are plenty to very experienced people still stranded within NuLabour who know how to connect with average voters and how to win elections with proper campaign, why they have not been used?

If it ends up into disaster for NuLabour on Thursday, it will be of leaderships own making.

Linesman says...
2:38pm Mon 25 Feb 13

LancashireLad wrote:
Labour trendy lefties have come down from London en masse, they know they face humiliation in Eastleigh currently on 13% behind UKIP on 21% and rising. Why waste your vote on these champagne socialist who wouldn't know a working class person if they fell over them. No this lot are the London political elite who you only see at election time, the rest of the time they are telling you what you can say and think all in the name of political correctness and Harriet Harpersons, unequal equality, where tiny militant minorities trump all before them. Please don't forget how terrible it was under Blair & Brown, (13 years of hurt)...it would be much much worse if that's possible under Miliband, Harman & Balls & co. ...the intolerant left.
Of course, Clegg and Cameron are always popping in to visit their Eastleigh fans.

Clegg, who is supposed to be the leader of his party, but first he claims that he did not know that complaints had been made about a prominent LibDem grandee, then says that he thinks he did hear something.

That's the sort of wishy-washy leadership he gives.

Cameron, on the other hand, gives a hand out to Fords on the eve of them emigrating from Eastleigh to Turkey. With his Public School eduction, he comes to Eastleigh to support the Tory candidate who claims that locals schools are not good enough for her genius son, but good enough for the plebs in Eastleigh.

I find it a trifle ironic that a Lancashire Lad should be mouthing off about a the London political elite coming to Eastleigh. At least London is a lot nearer than Lancashire Bah Gum!

LancashireLad says...
3:44pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Only three days left to the election and everything to play for... UK Independence Party can win this seat according to... The latest Times poll which shows UKIP on 25% in Eastleigh just 1 % behind the Conservatives and miles ahead of Labour a long way back in forth place. With many voters still undecided and many Liberal voters feeling betrayed and dismayed at their party's recent two faced & dishonest political games with the Tories plus working class voters also feel unrepresented by these champagne socialists just down for the day from London, so if you want to give the Conservatives, Lib Dems and New Labour a kick up the backside why not vote for the only party that can possibly win this by- election and the only one that can cause a massive upset in Westminster; sending shock waves through their cosy progressive liberal ideoloy and their elite political clubs, make history and vote for Diane James & UKIP... give our once great nation hope again for the future. It is time for a real change. So come on good folk of Eastleigh give Diane James a chance to make a difference and hope for us all.

LancashireLad says...
3:49pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Linesman in 1983 I moved to Sussex and that's a lot nearer to Hampshire than Islington in London! LOL

LancashireLad says...
4:10pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Your cheap jibe of UKIP supporters being little Englanders is so rich when it is New Labour's thirteen years of hurt, and continued by this Liberal Coalition that has not just made England almost insignificant but the whole of the UK. So thanks to thirteen years of New labour under very pro EU; Blair and Brown and now Europhile Clegg we are very much little Britain controlled by the European political elite in Brussels & Strasbourg. If you not only want to make England but Britain great again then cut us free from this dead man walking; the failed European Union. Let's rediscover our pride in our once great nation and put the great back into Britain by using the business language of the world ENGLISH to trade with everyone; without the red tape and heavy restrictions our continued membership of this union of losers. Yes I am proud to be English and proud to be British and only our independence from the EU can set us free... and for me that freedom and indepence is priceless; it is the cosy pro EU folk who want to keep us little England, in fact they don't want us to be English, Welsh, Scots or Irish or Brits even they want us all to be Europeans...There is nothing little about Norway or Switzerland who are both very rich nations enjoying their freedom of being in Europe and trading with the world , without being members of the EU club.

Paramjit Bahia says...
4:21pm Mon 25 Feb 13

LancashireLad wrote:
Your cheap jibe of UKIP supporters being little Englanders is so rich when it is New Labour's thirteen years of hurt, and continued by this Liberal Coalition that has not just made England almost insignificant but the whole of the UK. So thanks to thirteen years of New labour under very pro EU; Blair and Brown and now Europhile Clegg we are very much little Britain controlled by the European political elite in Brussels & Strasbourg. If you not only want to make England but Britain great again then cut us free from this dead man walking; the failed European Union. Let's rediscover our pride in our once great nation and put the great back into Britain by using the business language of the world ENGLISH to trade with everyone; without the red tape and heavy restrictions our continued membership of this union of losers. Yes I am proud to be English and proud to be British and only our independence from the EU can set us free... and for me that freedom and indepence is priceless; it is the cosy pro EU folk who want to keep us little England, in fact they don't want us to be English, Welsh, Scots or Irish or Brits even they want us all to be Europeans...There is nothing little about Norway or Switzerland who are both very rich nations enjoying their freedom of being in Europe and trading with the world , without being members of the EU club.
As UKIP coordinates with M Le Pen you may argue that in fact it is part of Europe wide ultra right menace

Linesman says...
7:33pm Mon 25 Feb 13

LancashireLad wrote:
Linesman in 1983 I moved to Sussex and that's a lot nearer to Hampshire than Islington in London! LOL
As you live in Sussex, why call yourself LancashireLad?

Could it be because your body is in Sussex but, Bah Gum, yer heart is in Lancashire?

LancashireLad says...
6:45pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Yes I am proud of my northern working class roots and the ordinary people of lancashire who helped make the nation wealthy through their hard toil in the coal mines, cotton mills and factories. Just as the people of Eastleigh should be proud of their roots as good hard working people earning their living in this once great railway town. Ordinary people have been betrayed by New Labour, the trendy glib talking wishy washy Liberals and the self interest of the posh tories who love to kick the poor, the sick, the disabled when they are all ready on the floor just to make a cheap headline in the Sun or The Express. So for me the choice is simple we need a radical change and a fresh voice and new ideas in Parliament, so as an ordinary nothern lad originally; now living 'darrn sarrth' now for the last thirty years I urge you to vote for Diane James and lets have a fresh new voice in Westminster, one that will give hope for the next generation at the next General Election in 2015, but in the meantime give the cosy con/liberals and champagne socialist, the trendy left from London a kick up the backside. IT IS TIME FOR A REAL CHANGE ! Make history in Eastleigh, vote UKIP.

Dan Soton says...
7:25pm Wed 27 Feb 13

A question for all the standing candidates.


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Why isn't (Defunct SHA) the South Central Strategic Health Authorities Fluoridation of Eastleigh's water an issue in this By-Election?..


We all know Nu-Labour is for Fluoridation is John O’Farrell?



1) Labour Party's Socialist Health Association advocate the Fluoridation of all drinking Water.



2) Labour Party's Socialist Health Association advocates the adding Fluoride to all Milk ( when all Milking Cows will be drinking Fluoridated Water ?)



3) Labour Party's Socialist Health Association advocates the promotion of Fluoride products in all Schools, Anti-natal sessions etc.


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http://www.sochealth
.co.uk/socialist-hea
lth-association-poli
cy/nhs-policies/prim
ary-care-dental-serv
ice/

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