ELECTION: Evan Harris speaks about defeat (From Oxford Mail)

Absolute travesty. Its a sad day for science and rationalism.

brookesalum wrote:
Absolute travesty. Its a sad day for science and rationalism.

You are so right. More months of this vile corrupt failure of a regime to endure, thanks to Dr. Harris' Liberal chums.

Lord Palmerstone wrote:

brookesalum wrote:
Absolute travesty. Its a sad day for science and rationalism.

You are so right. More months of this vile corrupt failure of a regime to endure, thanks to Dr. Harris' Liberal chums.

Lord Palmerstone,

Bizarre interpretation of the results. So if there was no Liberal Democrates, who do you think their 6 million counted votes would be cast for? It's the Liberals you have to thank for Labour not winning every election.

And it's goodnight from him!

If he'd been more prompt with answering his letters, he might have got a few more votes.

Isis Bridge is right he hardly ever replies or responds to letters annoying MANY! but he did not estimate the power of the student vote as we went out voting Conservative, he bombarded our halls with his election material even sending us a named letter on election day begging us to vote for him! despite that we don't get post till 2pm so useless as most of us had voted by then spelled desperate if you ask me

Isisbridge wrote:
If he'd been more prompt with answering his letters, he might have got a few more votes.

Indeed. I'm truly sorry that we've lost an outspoken rationalist in Parliament, but Dr Harris, you work for your constituency first, or you don't work at all.

Tom-Monster Raving Looney I'd say. What beats me is how the ambient cotton buds who vote Liberal can actually find their way to the Polling station

Lord Palmerstone wrote:
Tom-Monster Raving Looney I'd say. What beats me is how the ambient cotton buds who vote Liberal can actually find their way to the Polling station

How rude. Straight from the Nigel Farage school of British common decency.

Lord Palmerstone wrote:
Tom-Monster Raving Looney I'd say. What beats me is how the ambient cotton buds who vote Liberal can actually find their way to the Polling station

Oh Lordy,

You've shown amazing contempt for 6.5 million voters. Almost a quarter of all votes cast for for the Liberals.

Ambient??! I'm often sanguine, but rarely ambient.

Tennis1 wrote:
Isis Bridge is right he hardly ever replies or responds to letters annoying MANY! but he did not estimate the power of the student vote as we went out voting Conservative, he bombarded our halls with his election material even sending us a named letter on election day begging us to vote for him! despite that we don't get post till 2pm so useless as most of us had voted by then spelled desperate if you ask me

How nice it must be for you to be too young to remember the days of Thatcher.

Isisbridge wrote:
If he'd been more prompt with answering his letters, he might have got a few more votes.

Isis, you are absolutely correct. I have speaking to a lot of people around my area and Harris lost because he didn't answer letters and ignored his constituents.

There are 4 voters in my household alone who voted for him last time. Add to that my relatives with the same response from Harris and you have 28 people!

Easy ride in your second term Harris and we bit back. The dole office will be open today, pop down there!

Student you are only in Oxford for 3 years. Keep out of Oxfords politics, vote in your own home constituency

I think you are all silly here Harris lost because the Labour vote went up. Two factors in this - the messages from senior Lib Dems not to vote tactically. Tho other was a lot of Labour bashing that went on which on reflection they may want to avoid in the forthcoming election campaign in October campaign

Scaramuccia wrote:
I think you are all silly here Harris lost because the Labour vote went up. Two factors in this - the messages from senior Lib Dems not to vote tactically. Tho other was a lot of Labour bashing that went on which on reflection they may want to avoid in the forthcoming election campaign in October campaign

Scaramuccia this area has never been a labour seat. It has always been between the Liberals and Conservatives.

Harris dirtied in his own nest and he paid the price. If he had looked after his constituents he could have stayed!

dorsetbob wrote:
Student you are only in Oxford for 3 years. Keep out of Oxfords politics, vote in your own home constituency

Oh my, is that a democratic thing to say?

3 Years is a long time and anyone over the age is entitled to a vote!

You should be moaning about those who didn't vote, not the students who did!

Golum wrote:

Isisbridge wrote:
If he'd been more prompt with answering his letters, he might have got a few more votes.

Isis, you are absolutely correct. I have speaking to a lot of people around my area and Harris lost because he didn't answer letters and ignored his constituents.

There are 4 voters in my household alone who voted for him last time. Add to that my relatives with the same response from Harris and you have 28 people!

Easy ride in your second term Harris and we bit back. The dole office will be open today, pop down there!

Meanwhile everyone I've spoken to holds him in the highest regard. At least he did his own canvassing, unlike Blackwood who sent her cronies round to my rellies in Botley instead. Didn't she also fail to turn up to several hustings sessions?

I think it is a shame he lost, he was a good MP. I am sure you will live to regret getting rid of him. In Chesterfield we lost a good Lib Dem MP simply because a few conservative voters failed to vote tactically, thus letting Labour back in. There never was a chance in Chesterfield of the conservatives wining, and in the last two elections most people have realised this. I am sure that the voters who switched would have much preferred to have a Lib Dem than Labour MP, and are now regretting their actions. The sooner we have a single transferrable voting system which requires the sitting MP to get 50% support the better.

Golum "GET REAL!" you can not sya national issuezs did not have any effect. He could have go in wiht a handful of tactical Labour votes but the Lib dem leders said people should not and they got into unnecessary Brown bashing in the last few weeks which antagonised many of my Labour friends who were going to vote tactically but decieded not to - that was very suilly campaign management and the Lib Dems that lost in seats where the Labour vote did NOT go down ought to be asking Cleggie and huhne what they were playing at. I am absolutely puzzled by the poor share of the actual vote given the polls when the proportion for TYoroes and Labouir was quite accurate to the poll of polls trends.

Usernamegoeshere wrote:

Golum wrote:

Isisbridge wrote: If he'd been more prompt with answering his letters, he might have got a few more votes.

Isis, you are absolutely correct. I have speaking to a lot of people around my area and Harris lost because he didn't answer letters and ignored his constituents. There are 4 voters in my household alone who voted for him last time. Add to that my relatives with the same response from Harris and you have 28 people! Easy ride in your second term Harris and we bit back. The dole office will be open today, pop down there!

Meanwhile everyone I've spoken to holds him in the highest regard. At least he did his own canvassing, unlike Blackwood who sent her cronies round to my rellies in Botley instead. Didn't she also fail to turn up to several hustings sessions?

Not around here he didn't! However, where was durihg his term and where were all the surgeries.

He is gone and good riddence!

Scaramuccia wrote:
Golum "GET REAL!" you can not sya national issuezs did not have any effect. He could have go in wiht a handful of tactical Labour votes but the Lib dem leders said people should not and they got into unnecessary Brown bashing in the last few weeks which antagonised many of my Labour friends who were going to vote tactically but decieded not to - that was very suilly campaign management and the Lib Dems that lost in seats where the Labour vote did NOT go down ought to be asking Cleggie and huhne what they were playing at. I am absolutely puzzled by the poor share of the actual vote given the polls when the proportion for TYoroes and Labouir was quite accurate to the poll of polls trends.

I hit a nerve there Sacre bleu as your spelling is attocious. Try again.

More than attocious: it may even be atrocious.

LOL quality

I lived in his constituency (in Kidlington) for 11 years of his term and I never saw him once, I even wrote to him once without reply. Paying the price for being anonymous to the people who voted for him. Good riddance

I wrote to him once on 13th May and he replied on 31st July. But his reply wasn't worth waiting for.

Wiki Wiki Wah wrote:
I lived in his constituency (in Kidlington) for 11 years of his term and I never saw him once, I even wrote to him once without reply. Paying the price for being anonymous to the people who voted for him. Good riddance

This is exactly why he failed. No other reason

"You've shown amazing contempt for 6.5 million voters. Almost a quarter of all votes cast for for the Liberals."
It almost makes you want to be a double glazing salesman doesn't it? There are 6.5 million suckers out there, aching to spend millions on their conservatory windows so they can recover the cost in fuel savings over 2 millennia, and to make it easy a quarter of them have had little orange posters saying "Dr Harris, a good each way bet" or similar. ...oh but I suppose quite a high proportion are in care homes and it'll be slightly harder to close a sale with them.

dorsetbob wrote:
Student you are only in Oxford for 3 years. Keep out of Oxfords politics, vote in your own home constituency

(Look at his moniker!) People who live in glass houses....

Mr E Mann wrote:

dorsetbob wrote: Student you are only in Oxford for 3 years. Keep out of Oxfords politics, vote in your own home constituency

(Look at his moniker!) People who live in glass houses....

LOL I thought that when I saw it.

Usernamegoeshere wrote:

Tennis1 wrote: Isis Bridge is right he hardly ever replies or responds to letters annoying MANY! but he did not estimate the power of the student vote as we went out voting Conservative, he bombarded our halls with his election material even sending us a named letter on election day begging us to vote for him! despite that we don't get post till 2pm so useless as most of us had voted by then spelled desperate if you ask me

How nice it must be for you to be too young to remember the days of Thatcher.

Are you sure you're a student - up before 2pm?????????

dorsetbob wrote:
Student you are only in Oxford for 3 years. Keep out of Oxfords politics, vote in your own home constituency

I live in this seat full time when not in halls during term time. Also I am here for four years so a whole election term, full time and intend to continue living and working the seat once I graduate.

look lets face facts, it doesn't matter who you vote for around here, everything seems to be decided by the University unless of course its speed limits. Then they send a poll out to 200 cyclists to see if the car drivers taxes should be spent on some signs.

Usernamegoeshere wrote:

Golum wrote:

Isisbridge wrote: If he'd been more prompt with answering his letters, he might have got a few more votes.

Isis, you are absolutely correct. I have speaking to a lot of people around my area and Harris lost because he didn't answer letters and ignored his constituents. There are 4 voters in my household alone who voted for him last time. Add to that my relatives with the same response from Harris and you have 28 people! Easy ride in your second term Harris and we bit back. The dole office will be open today, pop down there!

Meanwhile everyone I've spoken to holds him in the highest regard. At least he did his own canvassing, unlike Blackwood who sent her cronies round to my rellies in Botley instead. Didn't she also fail to turn up to several hustings sessions?

You are obviously not speaking to the right people.

There is a common theme running through these comments and that is that he didn't response to comments. He didn't response to 3 of mine, last year alone. I am one person, so how many did he not reply to through the whole of his area?

I for one am glad that this man has gone and I have voted liberal for the last 20 years, but not this time!!

All irrelevant now as the Lib Dems, who came third, are in government.

Now that is new politics!

Dr Harris will probably be going round to Nicola's for tea and buns.

The Youth are our future wrote:
All irrelevant now as the Lib Dems, who came third, are in government. Now that is new politics! Dr Harris will probably be going round to Nicola's for tea and buns.

I presume "The Youth are our future" is a student, because he or her statement is total rubbish.

It is a high parliament with the Conservatives in power. No matter who the Liberals sided with who of had the majority.

This is not new politics as it happened in the 80's.

That doesn't make sense what-so-ever. I am suffering from a brain problem at the moment and sometimes I have trouble with sentence construction.

What I meant to say was:-

I presume "The Youth are our future" is a student, because his or her statement is total rubbish.

It is a hung parliament with the Conservatives in power. No matter who the Liberals sided with, would of had the majority.

This is not new politics as it happened in the 80's.