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Labour’s poll spin
IT is always interesting to see Labour trying to spin themselves out of a hole. The disastrous local election results where they lost 15 out of the 17 seats they contested in last Thursday's local elections in Southampton is a case in point.
Having lost their leader, it was down to Councillor Jackie Rayment to face the music at the Guildhall. She was quoted in the Daily Echo and on the BBC's Politics Show as saying said "We lost wards we didn't expect to lose and didn't lose ones we expected to.'' Really? Did they expect to lose Woolston and Bevois - the only wards they actually won?
MP John Denham was even more brazen. He said "Our own vote stayed strong but the Lib Dem vote collapsed and went to the Tories."
Not true! Labour's share of the vote in Southampton fell four per cent last Thursday on 2007, a drop of 2,300 votes.
The Lib Dems dropped 2,400 votes across the city from the 2007 set of elections.
MATTHEW DEAN, Shirley, Southampton.
10:00am Wednesday 7th May 2008
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