Voters in Watford's Tudor ward have today made it very clear what they think of Watford Conseravtives' 'it was nothing to do with us guv' stance on the Ian Oakley affair.
Excellent Lib Dem candidate Darren Walford held the seat with 50% of the votes cast while the Tory share plummeted by more than 12%.
The icing on the cake was that the BNP trailed in fifth place.
Given that the Lib Dems hold the vast majority of seats on the council, along with the Mayoralty, an increase in their share of the vote in a by-election held in difficult circumstances is a terrific result for the party.
And despite the fact that the by-election took place just days after former Tory candidate Ian Oakley was sentenced for his nasty and anti-democratic campaign of intimidation, the local Tories were still cuaght out telling outright lies on their leaflets and had to issue an apology and retraction yesterday.
At least it is clear that a good chunk of their (former) voters have some sense of decency even if the local Tory Party continues to refuse to apologise or look into what happened.
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The icing on the cake was that the BNP trailed in fifth place.
Disingenuous.
The BNP candidate announced some time ago that he was no longer prepared to stand due to being grief-stricken following the death of his wife. Campaigning stopped at that point.
You also conveniently neglected to mention that the by-election had been called because a LibDem councillor resigned, having been caught drink-driving yet again.
Now make yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up and then click here for a shockingly long list of LibLabCon criminals (e.g. fraudsters, violent thugs, rapists and child porn connoisseurs).
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