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Is the Conservative victory in Devon just a footnote in the march to a General Election triumph?

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 6, 2009 |

Disabled Kevin wonders where the county election fits in the move towards a General Election

In other years the Tories clearing out of the Liberal Democrats from County Hall would be headline news but Gordon Brown has managed to demote the Conservative’s success to an election item in the news. Personally, I was

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Police are called as UKIP candidate bursts into song and shouts about council tax at count

By PRSD, on Friday, June 5, 2009 | 3 comments - ()

UKIP have been doing their best to make us smile – and now they come up with a song, dance and shouting act to entertain us from one of their candidates at the county council election count in Torridge.

Have UKIP been folded out of Europe?

By PRSD, on Friday, June 5, 2009 |

UKIP are unhappy – now tell us something we don’t know. Apparently the party has ‘received hundreds of phone calls from confused voters in yesterday’s elections’. No surprise there.

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Hair apparent – Lib Dems call Stuart Cullimore a ‘greasy-haired twat’

By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | 1 comment - ()

Things do get pretty heated in the political arena but it’s not often a candidate is described as a ‘greasy-haired twat’. More’s the pity, we reckon.

More candidates offer 140 characters on why vote for them as #devonelection hots up

By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 |

Just two days to go for the European and the county election and we’ve got more election messages that could fit in a Tweet, and some evidence that the Devon election is simmering up nicely.

#devonelection three more candidates offer Twitter-esque message

By PRSD, on Monday, June 1, 2009 |

Three more county council candidates have got in touch to share their Twitter-esque manifesto – summing up their political message in 140 character or fewer. A useful and fun exercise we thinks. What do you reckon?