Peterborough is an odd place. When I moved there, in the late 80s, I came across open racism and general intolerance of the sort that had vanished from London 15 or so years earlier; if you went to any of the city's nightclubs at some point during the evening they would play "Time Warp" (from the Rocky Horror Show), something I always found ironic and apt. So Jackson was the perfect match for a swathe of the population, an unrepentantly bigoted homophobe.danesclose wrote:Good news on Twitter for the natives of Peterborough:
Chris Michaels @cmichaels97 28 mins28 minutes ago
Good News - Nasty Tory MP Stewart Jackson likely to lose Peterborough to Labour. Majority only 4,861. Huge Lib Dem vote to squeeze. #LabGain
Problem for him is that those people have now found UKIP, so his vote is being split; his predecessor was Blair Babe (according to the press) Helen Brinton (later Clark), so there is already a natural Labour vote on the ground which can only benefit from the Right vote fighting amongst themselves.
Night all.