Three cheers for Parmjit! (Even though this means my LibDem playing cards are now out of date.) I’m sure he will be an excellent constituency MP, and an asset to our – ever growing – Parliamentary Party.
Bad luck to Nicola Davies who came excrutiatingly close in Birmingham Hodge Hill, although she can be very proud at achieving (by my back of the envelope calculations at 2am, so I may be wrong!) a larger swing than we won with in Leicester South.
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Ken Jennings, a Mormon software engineer from Utah, is the greatest ever quiz player in TV history. Yesterday his winnings on Jeopardy passed $1m, after winning for 30 consecutive days. Ken says he’s going to spend it on DVDs.
Source: Popbitch
Michael White waxes lyrical in today’s Guardian about reform of the honours system. It’s an amusing article, and not least for this Yes, Minister reference.
The MPs want to do better by all concerned except the automatic CMGs (Call Me God), KCMGs (Kindly Call Me God) and GCMGs (God Calls Me God), so treasured in Whitehall.
The campaign is going at full pelt here in Leicester South. The campaign headquarters was packed yesterday with volunteers who’ve turned out in force to support Parmjit and the mood was optimistic.
The city is swimming in LibDem diamonds. I’ve spotted only one or two posters for the Labour candidate and nothing from the Tories. Labour have been putting out some particularly dirty literature (personal and misleading attacks on the other parties, not top shelf magazines). I know we have a habit of saying “the Tories can’t win here” (and that’s true over so much of the country), but all the signs are that the Conservatives will come a poor third, while it’s going to be neck and neck between us and Labour right up to polling day.
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