ELECTIONS 2012: Night starts with three shock results (From The Oxford Times)

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  Phian wrote:
  

  Witneywell wrote:
  Also CONGRATULATIONS to Duncan Enright and Andrew Coles. People are getting fed up with not only this coalition government but with the Tory dominated district council and in particular the CLR fiasco which most people in Witney do NOT want.

  Many people I know are fed up with the CLR fiasco but only because they feel the road should have been built many years ago as agreed by our elected representatives at the time. Instead of this, a very successful campaign waged by a non elected group has used every trick in the book to delay the project so that it may well not be completed at all.
  The Council was Tory dominated because that is who got the votes, that may not be the case after this election due to dissatisfaction with national politics but we will see.

  1) The CLR has had planning permission twice before. On one occasion OCC couldn’t build it because they had insufficient funds, and on the second occasion they simply ran out of time on their 5-year planning permission! So we’re ALL fed up with the CLR saga!
  2) Our elected representatives stood for many policies, not just the CLR. In fact the CLR was not mentioned in many of the pro-CLR candidate's campaign material. So it would be wrong to assume that a vote for them was necessarily a vote for the CLR.
  3) Our campaign against the CLR has been totally within the laws of our democracy. Pressure groups are an important part of this country’s freedom of speech and, of course, anybody could have set up a campaign in opposition to us/for the CLR.
  4) The current planning permission for the CLR which OCC granted itself expired on April 7th 2012. OCC has had THREE YEARS in which to prepare for this road, yet once again they’ve failed to follow the required procedures and their planning permission has, by their own admission, lapsed.
  5) Your last line seems to say that the reason the Conservatives polled badly in Witney this week is because of national politics. Well maybe the reason they polled well in previous years was also because of national politics, and not because of any desire by their electors for the CLR.
  You can’t have it both ways!
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  David Condon. WitneyFirst."
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