Jared Omara MP ..

[Bladesman 10]

No it hasn’t.

 

Hallam has been Blue with the occasional spoilage of Yellow for years.

 

Why did the Tories, the Lib Dums and the kippers fail this time round ?

 

Labour even admitted they didn’t vet Jared as they didn’t expect to win the seat.

 

Hallam has been solid yellow for the last 20 years though. The Conservatives didn't even come second at the last 2 general elections in Sheffield Hallam despite the Lib Dems slowing falling away under Clegg.

[The Joker 10]

Hallam has been solid yellow for the last 20 years though.

 

Wow, that long ?

 

That’s my problem right there. I’m still living in the 1980s

[lobster 54]

The Tories lost Hallam because they had an absolute Dead Beat MP in Irvine Patnick plus the Lib Dem at the time Richard Allen was an exceptional candidate

[Jim Hardie 527]

The Tories lost Hallam because they had an absolute Dead Beat MP in Irvine Patnick plus the Lib Dem at the time Richard Allen was an exceptional candidate

 

Eh? That was 20 year ago.

[crazyhorse 37]

What I dislike about our new MP are his personal opinions and his attitude to the job...not his party affiliation.

 

Take Mr Skinner as an example over in Bolsover. There is much I do not agree with policy wise...but I hugely admire his attitude to the job.

I don't believe he has missed a parliamentary session in all the time he has been an MP (except when he was ill I believe)...and he always fights for his constituency and takes his job seriously.

 

This clown we have seems fresh out of student politics and as much a clown as I was when I was a student.

[stifflersmom 11]

In a General election the candidate is worth about 1.5% max.

People vote for the party and the party manifesto.

 

So there is truth in the saying that a village idiot with a blue rosette or a monkey with a red rosette can get elected to parliament.

 

IMO there is too much personality politics.

Exactly. Council elections are for local issues and personality candidates. General Elections are, with few exceptions, about the party and national issues.

[shanes teeth 10]

Well you got what you deserve then really.

You were so hell bent on preventing a Tory taking the seat you voted in a donkey wearing a red rosette.

 

I wonder how much worse that Tory would have been??

 

This was the first time I had ever voted for the party rather than the candidate. In fact it was the first time I had voted labour but I thought it the best way to prevent a Tory win. It seemed to me that Hallam was fed up with Lib Dem and could quite easily revert to type. And yes,I probably would,in this case,have voted for a donkey. Seems I almost did!

[ENG601PM 10]

jnstead of asking why Labour won Hallam, ask why the Tories, the Lib Dims and the kippers lost it.

 

The Lib Dems definitely lost it but if we look at the vote trend, the choice of Jared O'Mara could well give the seat back to the Conservatives for the first time in 20 years.

 

That's some achievement by Mr Corbyn's Labour, quite the own goal, a bullet through the foot, etc.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Hallam could go yellow, red or blue next time! All to play for.

I am told that this 'next time' might be arriving for Sheffield Hallam much sooner than for the rest of the country; it seems that the present MP might decide to step down (via the Chiltern Hundreds) if more about any past misdeeds is revealed.

[Beauchiefs 10]

I am told that this 'next time' might be arriving for Sheffield Hallam much sooner than for the rest of the country; it seems that the present MP might decide to step down (via the Chiltern Hundreds) if more about any past misdeeds is revealed.

 

I'll believe it when it happens, this useless excuse as a MP. will hang on as long as he can in order to receive his salary which he doesn't earn or deserve.

[Martin C 81]

I am told that this 'next time' might be arriving for Sheffield Hallam much sooner than for the rest of the country; it seems that the present MP might decide to step down (via the Chiltern Hundreds) if more about any past misdeeds is revealed.

 

Good opportunity (if so) to 'parachute in' David Miliband. Bound to retain the student vote with his wish to stop Brexit and increase the number of refugees we take in by a factor of 4-6.

 

That's assuming he could be tempted away from his luxury New York penthouse of course.

[smiggs 10]

Good opportunity (if so) to 'parachute in' David Miliband. Bound to retain the student vote with his wish to stop Brexit and increase the number of refugees we take in by a factor of 4-6.

 

That's assuming he could be tempted away from his luxury New York penthouse of course.

 

Unlikely Miliband will return while Corbyn is secure in his leadership as he'd be little more than a rebelious back bencher.