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Another Tory defection to Labour

By Stephen Tall | Tue 25th September 2007 - 6:13 pm

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Calm down, nothing too exciting – one of Dave’s A-listers, Judith Symes, has crawled inside Gordon’s big tent. She stood for the Tories in Brighton Kemptown in 2005, coming within 2,373 votes of unseating the sitting Labour MP. The Brighton Argus has more. (Hat-tip to Guido.)

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3 Comments

Cy Pomeroy 25th Sep '07 - 8:03pm

Nice language, “crawled” How would you have put it if she had joined the Lib-Dems
Stephen Tall 25th Sep '07 - 8:26pm

That she had fluttered inside elegantly as if blessed with the wings of an angel glittering with gold-dust.

You see, I’m just as happy being impartial with poetry as with prose.
Chris Keating 25th Sep '07 - 10:17pm

What do you mean, ‘as if’?

We have plenty of angels whose wings glitter with gold dust waiting and ready to go.

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