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The race is on
Date published: 10 January 2011
A CLOSE win is what Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, predicts for Liberal Democrat candidate Elwyn Watkins at Thursday’s by-election.
Mr Huhne, who was visiting the borough for the third time since campaigning began, said: “It’s going to be neck and neck between us and Labour but we don’t want a repeat of last time.
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“We want 103 votes with Elwyn in the lead, every vote is going to count. I’m very confident that we are in a very tight two-horse race with Conservative support falling away.”
Mr Huhne visited Oldham Leisure Centre, which is set to have a new wood pellet burning biomass boiler installed when it is redeveloped, before going canvassing with Mr Watkins.
Cash for the Government’s Warm Front scheme, which gives grants towards insulation to low-income families, the elderly and the disabled, was frozen by the Government in December.
Mr Huhne denied that cutting cash would force more Oldham residents into fuel poverty.
He said: “From April, this will be a much better scheme. We are going to be providing people with Green Deal renovations for their homes which will be more effective than Warm Front.
“Labour had no effective means of tackling fuel poverty.”
Comments
Flake, can you show me the Labour leaflets that talk about THEIR policies?. NOT ONE of the many I have been sent offer a SINGLE policy, they are 100% negative, attacking the Lib Dems.
The only thing the parties have to offer is "vote for me because they're worse"
For the first time ever I don't think I'll vote.
Not had a single candidate round my area either . Maybe it is cos the residents of Waterhead don't like the Academy that has been dunmped on us by politicians.
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Not much chance of him getting my vote if the Liberals won't come and talk on the doorsteps, Labour have at least done that. Leaflets count for nothing, they go straight into paper recycling, but even the leafleters don't want to talk about Liberal party policies, a damning indictment of what they have done in coalition.
By Flake @ 10/01/2011 15:40:20