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  • "Sadly turn out is going to be low, most people moan but then do not vote because dishonesty by large parts of our political class has put them off
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    I am convinced by midnight Smith led Tory control of our Council will be part of past history
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    Tories can console themselves with knowledge that their evil policies will be safe under rightwing mob led by Milliband’s local NuLabourite followers
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    NuLabour will most certainly bag Coxford, because of hard work done by Cllr. Don Thomas, although I myself have voted for Don’s former and equally hard working friend Tim Cutter, TUSC candidate whom I also nominated
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    Williams led NuLabour will gain two seats in Peartree, and will do well in Bitterne only because Cllr Simon Letts has been working hard and being loyal to his party he has campaigned against TUSC’s candidate exceptionally brilliant former councillor Perry McMillan
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    I suspect for some reason TUSC has given free run to NuLabour in Millbrook, Freemental and Sholing
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    Although I can never locate the manuals ‘How to lose winnable votes’ by Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky or even by Mahatma Gandhi, but surely TUSC seem to posses it. My belief is based on how they run election campaigns, fail to reach and target the voters which matters. Otherwise I am convinced they would have won few wards
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    On the positive side, despite lack of resources, and pro established parties and anti left press, TUSC may succeed in pushing those unprincipled opportunist Liberal Democrats into fourth place. (Southy is highly likely to do that in Redbridge, where he may even get more votes than Tories) That could be TUSC’s launching pad for future."
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Voters go to the polls in local elections

VOTERS head to the polls today across Hampshire in local election races that could see a change in leadership in Tory run Southampton and Winchester.

Damage could be done to the Lib Dems vice like grip in Eastleigh, while Conservative dominated councils in Fareham and Gosport also face the electorate with the possibility of upsets.

After months of frenzied local campaigning, buffeted by national events, candidates now face an anxious wait until the results are declared tonight and tomorrow.

Some 128 councils are holding elections across England, with some or all of the seats up for grabs.

In Southampton, voters will decide who will run the city council for the next two years, as there are no elections next May.

Eighteen seats across all 16 city wards are up for grabs. The Conservatives hold 25 of the 48 seats on the council but are defending 14. Labour have 19 seats, needing to six gains to take power. The result will be closely watched nationally.

Tories are the ruling party in Winchester but are deadlocked with the Lib Dems on 27 seats. Nineteen of the 57 seats are up for grabs but Lib Dems are defending 12, twice as many as the Tories.

Lib Dems hold 38 of the 44 seats in Eastleigh. With 15 seats up for election they will still be in power tomorrow, but their local record will be tested amid nose diving national opinion polls for the party.

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Fifteen seats are also up for grabs on Fareham council, with Conservatives holding 23 and the Lib Dems on 7. Twelve Conservative seats are being defended, opening up a possibility for a Lib Dem victory.

Gosport is putting 17 of its 34 seats up for election, where the Conservatives run the show with 23 councillors. Lib Dems and Conservatives are also slugging it out for Portsmouth.

Referendums on creating elected mayors are due to take place in 10 English cities, while London, Liverpool and Salford are electing mayors. The polls open from 7am to 10pm.

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