Thurrock high on Labour target list

7:20am Friday 11th January 2013 in News

THURROCK has been named as the Labour party’s second most important target for the 2015 general election.

The list of 106 target seats was published by the Labour party on Tuesday, and lists 88 seats Labour lost in 2010, 15 the party last won in 2001, and three seats it hasn’t held at any point between 1997 and 2010. North Warwickshire tops the table.

Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price ended Labour’s 18-year reign in Thurrock when she defeated Labour candidate Carl Morris in May 2010 by just 92 votes.

Mr Morris ran for the seat after his boss, Andrew Mackinlay, who had been the borough’s MP since 1992, decided to step down.

Ms Doyle-Price will fight Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate Polly Billington at the next election. The Thurrock seat is the fifth most marginal constituency in the UK.

The South Basildon and East Thurrock seat, currently held by Conservative MP Stephen Metcalfe, is 98 on Labour’s target list.

Mr Metcalfe took the seat from Labour’s Angela Smith at the last election, with 44 per cent of the vote. Mrs Smith had held the seat since 1997.

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Cvh says...
8:36am Fri 11 Jan 13

I just hope the people of Thurrock see though this bunch of jokers milliband and his strange bunch of followers seem to have forgot why this country is in such a mess it was the labour party that sold us all down the river we are a broken nation because of labour and thier union chums who made sure they looked after themselves whilst the rest of us suffered and are still suffering.
Go away and leave us all alone crawl back into your little holes and stay there

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Bernard 87 says...
9:12am Fri 11 Jan 13

Labour will finish what they started in 1997....destroying this country. I hope Thurrock residents think long and hard before they vote in 2015.

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ebagumtrebor says...
11:24am Fri 11 Jan 13

With the number of their supporters they moved in upto 2010, I'm sure the Labour party were probably shocked they lost last time round. Still there's plenty more where they came from. I'm sure they must have tipped the scales in their favour by now. This is new Thurrock now. Old Thurrock is gone. Perhaps we should start calling our country new England. Or would that upset the left's god in America.

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Mattster says...
1:30pm Fri 11 Jan 13

Labour will walk it in 2015, the real suprise was they lost the seat in 2010.

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Dave_ says...
5:16pm Fri 11 Jan 13

“Labour will walk it in 2015, the real suprise was they lost the seat in 2010.”
It was only a surprise to Labourites unable to face the truth. Anyone with any intelligence knew that with MacKinlay stepping down Morris was not a fit replacement. He was part of the conceited council that lost 30 odd years of constant Labour rule, because they had no stomach for what the Borough was telling them. Plus Labour, by 2010 had run their course and screwed it up and not fit to govern in my opinion. The unalienable truth is that had Labour got back in, they would have had to do what has been done since 2010, otherwise we would be in a far worse position. However I would have sooner seen Labour get in, as they wouldn’t have been able to have not kept spending to prop up the public sector and benefits system and by now we would have had another General Election and they would have been out of the picture politically for years. I’m not saying that the current govt has got it entirely right but they were left with an economy shot to pieces. I imagine many senior Labour MPs were glad not to have won, as they had run out of ideas.

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A Dermot says...
5:58pm Fri 11 Jan 13

Labour have already imported 10,000 of their voters into Thurrock so a Labour win is a forgone conclusion.

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improving road safety says...
10:29pm Sun 13 Jan 13

I’m not getting into this slagging match regarding the Labour and the Tories/lib dems, but I do think Ukip results on the national polls is going to increase because staying in or getting out of Europe is a biggest issue on the table at present, at least the guy from Ukip speaks the language that most people want to hear regarding getting out of Europe. What do you think?

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OckendonPaul says...
10:20am Mon 14 Jan 13

Good luck to the UKIP bloke but ebagumtrebor is spot on above.
By the next election Thurrock will have the demographic that Barking has now, and labours imported immigrant vote will walk it for them. The rest of us (how long til we're called "first nation British"?), will continue to squabble amongst ourselves over the other parties, in the forlorn belief that it will make any difference.

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