Is this the silliest piece of by-election spin ever?

7 Comments

• IanP
  Posted 20th July 2007 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

  Would hate to think this has anything to do with his business acumen..

  Was that + or – £4800 to labour party,
  and that 3.19pct increase to the libdems was invisible…

  these new political games are now beginning to bore me….

• Andrea
  Posted 20th July 2007 at 5:24 pm | Permalink

  if they want to say that they’re the only party increasing their % (which is not true), they could have at least not published the full results below with changes showing that their previous line is not accurate
• Eldoc
  Posted 20th July 2007 at 5:24 pm | Permalink

  I read a couple of posters on Politicalbetting.com trying to spin such rubbish after the result came in. Why is politics filled with such blatant liars?

• Alex Foster
  Posted 20th July 2007 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

  Grant was trying to push that line last night before the results had come in. “The party to make the biggest increase in vote” I think was his phrase.

• Unity
  Posted 20th July 2007 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

  I must commend you for lending the Tories the guy who draws your bar graphs in their hour of need – that’s most charitable of you.

• Stuart
  Posted 21st July 2007 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

  Talk of Grant 1234 Shapps as some kind of Tory Rennard is such a joke. He is a walking electoral disaster zone. Best of all was his line that all 3rd place parties get squeezed – err, tell that to the LibDems in Sedgefield who pushed the Tory candidate from 2nd place to 3rd. What a Tory idiot!

• Jeremy Sanders
  Posted 23rd July 2007 at 1:03 pm | Permalink

  I can’t help remembering the Labour MP on TV on the night of the Bermondsey by-election (sorry – I’m showing my age!) trying to argue that the real news was how badly the Tories had done.