Election 05

Unpaid Yorkshire Post. The column they can't afford even though it's free

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:35 Written by Austin Mitchell Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:24

Two features make this election more difficult to predict than any predecessor. The polls are usually pretty good predictors but got a bloody nose last time. So they’ve changed their methods. MORI continues with good old interviews, others have switched to cheaper phone surveys. A couple have gone to even cheaper email polling which is better at displaying trends rather than predicting results. So there are wide variations from a l0% Labour lead to a l%. The old trick of averaging them out won`t work because you can`t average different methods.

Election Campaign Launch - Text of Austin's speech, from Grimsby Town Hall, Tuesday April 12th

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:35 Written by Austin Mitchell Monday, 18 April 2005 22:15

Thank you for adopting me as your Labour candidate. I’m delighted to fight this election. We fight to win.

I’m sorry though to present myself with a missing front tooth as if I was a National Front Candidate or had just had an argument with John Prescott. I was listening to World at One yesterday where Michael Howard was promising more police, cleaner hospitals, lower taxes, school discipline and controlled immigration. I don’t know if you were thinking what was thinking, which was why the hell didn’t he do all this in eighteen years in power? But it was such a mean, malevolent, nasty collection of policies that I was grinding my teeth in anger. One broke and fell out.

Grimsby Telegraph questions and

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:37 Written by Austin Mitchell Friday, 15 April 2005 17:37

Question 1

List six SPECIFIC things that you, not the Government, have done for Grimsby since elected.

ELECTION BLOG!!!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:39 Written by Austin Mitchell Monday, 04 April 2005 15:12

Bored of the election campaign already?

Never mind, Austins Election Blog will provides an antidote to a boring national campaign.

Austins Election No Spin Zone

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:44 Written by Austin Mitchell Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:57