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Lib Dem PPC quits over website

Oh well, that’ll learn me. A fortnight ago, I reported in highly sceptical terms a story in the Carlisle News & Star about the involvement of Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Carlisle, Steven Tweedie, in an anonymous website “calling for Eric Martlew to be ousted as Carlisle’s MP”.

As I remarked at the time, the now-defunct www.byebyeeric.com (still available to view via Google’s cache here) was innocuous stuff, for example suggesting visitors “wish him good luck in his retirement or ask him what he intends to do about some of the key issues facing Carlisle”.

It was ill-advised …

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Lib Dem PPC wishes to oust Labour rival: shock! horror!

The Carlisle News & Star has broken a story which might rank alongside Damian McBride’s emails for its scandalous content: it appears that the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Carlisle, Steven Tweedie, is involved in a website (prepare yourselves) “calling for Eric Martlew to be ousted as Carlisle’s MP”.

The paper’s revelations go further: “Anonymous opponents of Mr Martlew have used the website to urge voters to support any candidate in preference to him at the next General Election.” Imagine!

The site, www.byebyeeric.com, is now unavailable, but the Google-cached copy – currently available here – is all pretty innocuous …

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