Stephen Twigg, former Labour MP for Enfield Southgate
Wouldn't you line up to vote him out of office if he represented you?
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 05/06/2005 12:14:44 PM PDT by MadIvan
A series of big-hitting MPs from all sides have seen their careers stall during a night of election upsets.
The biggest political casualty was David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist leader, who lost his Upper Bann seat to David Simpson of the Democratic Unionist Party led by the Reverend Ian Paisley.
The defeat cast major doubt on Mr Trimble's future as Ulster Unionist leader.
Education minister Stephen Twigg was one of three government members to lose, ceding Enfield and Southgate to the Conservatives.
It had taken the seat from Michael Portillo in the Labour landslide of 1997.
Junior constitutional affairs minister Chris Leslie saw his period as MP for Shipley end as did health minister Melanie Johnson at Welwyn Hatfield in Hertfordshire.
Fiery rebel MP George Galloway saw his strong anti-Iraq war stance steer him to victory against Labour's Oona King.
Ex-Labour minister Barbara Roche suffered one of the biggest swings against Labour, one of almost 15% seeing her majority of more than 10,000 in Hornsey and Wood Green overturned by the Liberal Democrats.
And Labour lost one of its safest seats with a majority of almost 20,000 in Blaenau Gwent where rebel MP, Peter Law, was victorious as an Independent candidate.
A strong student protest vote in Cambridge saw the Lib Dems eradicate a Labour majority of almost 9,000 to win.
Not all the big losses were Labour. Key Michael Howard aide and Tory education spokesman Tim Collins lost his seat in Westmorland and Lonsdale to the Lib Dems.
In Solihull, the Lib Dems secured a swing of almost 14% from the Conservatives to come home first.
Stephen Twigg, former Labour MP for Enfield Southgate
Wouldn't you line up to vote him out of office if he represented you?
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Did you change your mind about leaving?
Well, at least they have some truth in advertisement in the UK...
I've been persuaded to stay...by all of you and by the Mods.
Regards, Ivan
Indeed. And with a Kennedy leading the party, no less.
Regards, Ivan
Hurray! I'm SO pleased you've changed your mind. You are greatly appreciated.
Who won Prime Minister? Did Blair win?
The way the system works is this - in order to form a government, a political party must have 324 MPs elected. Labour won 355 seats. Blair, as the leader of the Labour Party, thus becomes Prime Minister.
Regards, Ivan
I believe the phrase is "Jolly good!"
Thanks Ivan, FR would not be the same without ou here!
Glad to see Twigg got the old heave-ho, but I am disgusted that that slimeball George Galloway managed to get himself elected. That man needs to be arrested, not sitting in Parliament!
Good to see you! : )
I'm glad you are staying. Surrendering to the forces of evil is what the French and some other Continentals do -- it's NOT the right thing for a proud Brit such as yourself. Sod the bloody ungrateful Anglophobes -- true Americans know who our friends are!
BTW: MP Twigg bears an uncanny resemblence to the older Peter Brady from The Brady Bunch.
Ivan, were you leaving FR??? Why?
BTW did you vote Labour or Conservative?
Bwhahaha!
Good news. I didn't think the Mods existed anymore. I heard they got their a-sses kicked by a group of Rockers at Blackpool back in '67.
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