WEST DORSET MP Oliver Letwin is one of the top Conservatives negotiating with the Liberal Democrats over the shape of the next Government. As this is a piece of political history in the making, it is worth recording Dr Letwin’s role. He wouldn’t, after all, still be an MP if…
SO THE Conservatives were relieved and non-Conservatives grieved as Oliver Letwin was re-elected as West Dorset’s MP with an increased majority. Dr Letwin got 27,287 votes, his main opponent – the Liberal Democrat Dr Sue Farrant – 23,364. That means Dr Letwin’s majority is now 3,923 (it was 2,461 in 2005). The figure’s worth analysing [...]
AN OLD black dog cocks its leg up against the tulips next to the village pump. A woodpecker drills into a tree trunk down on the common. The dandelions stay firmly closed in the cold morning air. Grey skies and drizzle in Lush Places. A perfect day for an election.…
A SHORT film for the 2010 General Election campaign in West Dorset has been made by David Partridge of the Bridport Peace and Justice Group, and the Eype-based film-maker Dave Young, whose recent film about the Electric Palace in Bridport was popular on The Guardian website. Political Masterpiece stars Mr Partridge – and well, you [...]
SO FAR in this election campaign, Oliver Letwin has worn out two pairs of shoes. It’s amazing he hasn’t also worn out his tongue. After talking for an hour and a quarter in Loders Village Hall near Bridport - and no answer he gave was ever less than five minutes long,…
HAVE OUR chums Big Ollie, Auntie Sue, Red Steve, Smiler and the Green cyclist all had ASBOs slapped on them? It’s the only explanation I can think of for their total absence from the highways and byways of the constituency during the hours of daylight over the past few weeks.…
WAR has been declared in my village, where political posters have replicated like Mickey Mouse’s broom in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Unlike the urban wasteland of Bridport, reported on for Real West Dorset by The Red Bladder, here in the village of Lush Places (twinned with Moo Moo Land, Royston Vasey…
