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The thriller in the Rhyl-ah!
7:40 pm, Fri 12th Mar 2010
Day 2 of our Go Fourth tour of North Wales and Cheshire and it's been a great day. Peter Hain joined me campaigning in Clwyd West with our fantastic candidate Donna Hutton. But whilst I was in Ruthin, the local Tory MP, David Jones, thought he'd have a go on Twitter, saying my presence there actually helped him. My subsequent twitter exchange, which revealed he was actually in London and not in his constituency and highlighted the fact he received £15,000 from Ashcroft to buy the seat at the last election, made...Read 'The thriller in the Rhyl-ah!' >
We're going to fight and win
6:33 am, Fri 12th Mar 2010
Attended a great rally for Susan Elan Jones, our excellent PPC for Clwyd South last night in North Wales. Peter Hain gave a great speech on the damage a Tory Government would do to this country and the party members went away with a spring in their step. Then just at the end, news came in of the new YouGov tracker poll - the lead down to just three points. And from what I've heard on Twitter about The Sun's Kelvin MacKenzie's performance on Question Time I reckon we'll be level pegging...Read 'We're going to fight and win' >
Why I love t'web
5:40 pm, Thu 11th Mar 2010
We're in Chirk on the Prescott Express for the start of a three day tour of North Wales and Cheshire marginals. Obviously, I try to respond to tweets and one asked me if I was going to Cornwall and Devon. As we're still working on the grid I mentioned the nearest date, Bristol a week on Saturday. This was picked up by a Matt Chorley, a hack on the Western Morning News - who doesn't even live in the Westcountry - trying to make out I was snubbing the area. He was being selective...
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High Speed Labour
12:59 pm, Thu 11th Mar 2010
Labour rescued High Speed 1 (the link to the Channel Tunnel) from collapse under the Tories and delivered it on budget and on time. It's proved to be highly successful. Now I'm delighted that High Speed 2 is being planned, and can only be delivered, by a Labour Government as the Tories are already quibbling about the route. This will at last connect the Midlands and the North by high speed rail to the South and Europe and finally fulfill an empty promise made by the Tories 20 years ago, which they failed to deliver....
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Back on the bus
7:29 am, Wed 10th Mar 2010
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I've never voted Tory
1:37 pm, Tue 16th Feb 2010
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Labour underdogs can beat Tory millionaires
11:34 am, Sun 7th Feb 2010
Hello. Very busy today and looking forward to my tweet-up in Leeds after giving the closing speech at Yorkshire and Humber Labour conference. But thought you'd might like to see a peak at what I'm going to see. Here's the press release: Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott will today fire the starting gun of the general election campaign by telling party activists Labour's team of underdogs can come from behind to clinch an historic fourth term. He'll also warn David Cameron "the general election is not for sale" and that Labour will "fight...
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Prescott Express hits the road
7:19 pm, Sat 6th Feb 2010
We're back on the Prescott Express. Yesterday we went over to support Judith Blake in Leeds North West with a spot of tubthumping and canvassing in Headingly. Very warm reaction we're getting on the streets and the doorsteps though I get asked less about the egg and more about Gavin and Stacey - especially from the many students I met. Thanks to Labour Students for organising the event and looking forward to going back to Leeds tomorrow do the closing speech at Yorkshire and Humber Labour Conference then off to my #leedstweetup - 68 are turning...Read 'Prescott Express hits the road' >
Cashcroft v small donations
1:19 pm, Mon 1st Feb 2010
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Bad advice - or judgement
5:24 pm, Fri 22nd Jan 2010
I can't believe Cameron is repeating the same mistake by taking a well-reported tragic incident and attempting to twist it to his political advantage. You'll remember he was hammered for trying to attack Labour over the Karen Matthews affair. He made out that all people on benefits have the potential to fake their children's abduction to get money! Now he's done the same thing again, seizing on the Edlington, Doncaster attacks as being an example of the 'social recession' in Britain. Never mind that the parents of the attackers, as Ed Balls pointed out, were married....
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