The election is creeping, if not galloping up on us and we will soon be campaigning in what has potential to be a very close and bitter election. I would like to think I’m wrong but all the signs are to the contrary. This will be my sixth General Election since 1987 when I succeeded Rt Hon Baroness Judith Hart and maybe having been here before allows me to be a bit more reflective than I might have been in earlier elections.
This pending election has similarities with 1992 where the people’s wariness with the incumbent government indicated a defeat for the then Major premiership. Neil Kinnock went into the election with a considerable opinion poll lead when Major famously got on his soap box and edged the election with a small majority but was doomed for the next 1997 Labour landslide that rescued the country, the economy and Parliament from the disastrous Thatcher and Major years.
This election is less predictable than usual and could end with a small Labour victory or a Tory landslide, such are the imponderables but one thing is crystal clear, it is a two horse race. The next Prime Minister of the country will be either Gordon Brown or David Cameron. To all the budding candidates for Lanark & Hamilton East I wish them well in their campaigns. I will fight them fiercely but respectfully whilst fighting for the return of a 4th term Labour Government.
Count Down
Count Down
The election is creeping, if not galloping up on us and we will soon be campaigning in what has potential to be a very close and bitter election. I would like to think I’m wrong but all the signs are to the contrary. This will be my sixth General Election since 1987 when I succeeded Rt Hon Baroness Judith Hart and maybe having been here before allows me to be a bit more reflective than I might have been in earlier elections.
This pending election has similarities with 1992 where the people’s wariness with the incumbent government indicated a defeat for the then Major premiership. Neil Kinnock went into the election with a considerable opinion poll lead when Major famously got on his soap box and edged the election with a small majority but was doomed for the next 1997 Labour landslide that rescued the country, the economy and Parliament from the disastrous Thatcher and Major years.
This election is less predictable than usual and could end with a small Labour victory or a Tory landslide, such are the imponderables but one thing is crystal clear, it is a two horse race. The next Prime Minister of the country will be either Gordon Brown or David Cameron. To all the budding candidates for Lanark & Hamilton East I wish them well in their campaigns. I will fight them fiercely but respectfully whilst fighting for the return of a 4th term Labour Government.