We all expected that there was going to be a General Election in November this year. The signs were all there. Gordon Brown had been doing well in the polls, he had invited Baroness Thatcher for tea at no 10, he had moved key meetings forward, he seemed to be hiring people to run a campaign for him. What happened? What he did was to help create a stronger, more united and hungrier Conservative Party!People liked what they heard at the Conservative Party conference - expecially on inheritance tax and stamp duty. They have also not been fooled by the Labour Party taking on some of these ideas as their own.
As I was going around Chiswick, Brentford, Isleworth and Hounslow in September and October, I was listening to what residents were saying. The Labour Party were also listening as they called people in my constituency to see how they would vote at the next election. They did not like what they heard and decided not to call a General Election.
I wanted a General Election now as I believe the people of this country deserve to vote on Gordon's vision. The last election was based on Tony's vision. The residents of Brentford and Isleworth deserve the right to have a choice now.
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The election delay gives Mary the chance, misquoting the Heineken advert, to reach parts of the constituency that other parties can't. B&I will be able to welcome in 2009 a fresh, dynamic (and frankly beautiful!) MP who will be a hard working champion of compassionate conservativism. Labour is top-down 'whitehall knows best'; Conservatives are bottom-up 'people know best'. It is just the messahe we want to hear - and see in operation.
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