Talk:Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Previous MPs[edit]

I can't find anywhere which says which party some of the previous MPs come from. Stranger is a Liberal according to election.demon.co.uk and therefore I've worked out that Howard Clifton Brown must reasonably be a Conservative. William Arthur Mount is listed on the Chiltern Hundreds so he definately resigned, he is probably a conservative.

Cinema[edit]

If needed, I have a scan of the flyer the Conservatives posted just before the elction regarding the Newbury cinema. 84.64.141.210 20:52, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fox-hunting and so on[edit]

That bit about fox-hunting is rubbish and should be taken out. The Tories won because they won over more people on council estates in the constituency, where the average voter is largely unconcerned with hunting. I was there throughout the early part of 2005 and have studied the constituency in depth and the change in support is too large to be accounted for solely by hunting. It is a cop-out on Rendel's behalf because the most significant factor in Rendel's defeat was the fact that he had neglected the constituency for years and national issues played a large part in getting out the vote on the day. Lstanley1979 (talk) 12:27, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've taken out the whole of the paragraphs on 2005. Most of it is untrue or misleading (the LibDems wanted to turn the whole of the marketplace into an Italian piazza, not just use imported marble) and is written from a POV which I can only describe as biased. Most wikis on constituencies in the UK do not have any preamble to the results and let them stand alone as their own witness. Anyone involved in electoral politics in the UK is going to take sides on issues and skew them in their own favour so I don't believe it is necessary to detail the campaign as if one was writing an article for your local party newsletter. Sorry but better no commentary than an obviously biased one. Lstanley1979 (talk) 12:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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