THANKS TO ALL LABOUR VOTERS

Thanks to everyone on the Island who stuck with Labour, stuck with Mark Chiverton, and ignored the siren calls of tactical voting.

Once again tactical voting on the Isle of Wight FAILED. The joint Labour and Liberal vote amounted to less than the Tory vote. Once again the Liberals have misled tactical voters that they could displace a Tory MP. It is clear that only voting Labour will have any chance of displacing the Tories.

And now we watch in disbelief - along, no doubt, with most Liberal party members - as Nick Clegg cosies up to Cameron in the ultimate demonstration of the political horse-trading that would follow every General Election if we ever get proportional representation.

Nonetheless, IW Labour will continue to fly the Red Flag and to campaign against the sort of cuts that a Con-Lib government will seek to impose.

Geoff Lumley

Labour Agent