And they cut away from Durham for Brown's seat... 
Lab Hold.
Epic fail, LibDems. Epic fail.
Durham's my stomping ground
. Too distinguished a city to be represented by the naff Carol Woods, who, seemingly, has announced that following her third successive loss, she would not be contesting the constituency a fourth time. Doubt her party would give her another shot to be honest. And if Cleggy jumps into bed with Cameron, the seat could potentially return to its safe Labour status. Durham Lib Dems, in my experience, are not Yellow Tories. Many activists are former Labour who bolted to the Lib Dems because of what they perceived as Labour's lurch to the right
Labour held it by running a most positive
campaign centred on Roberta's and Labour's record in the constituency (and that's how it should be); I've known the Lib Dems run on as little as Gordon Brown standing outside 10 Downing Street with Baroness Thatcher, especially in the former pit villages where antipathy runs deep towards her
Durham, under Labour, has beneffited very much from both public and private investment these past 13 years; indeed, despite this government having to contend with the worst financial crisis and economic downturn since the 'Great Depression', unemployment is 1/2 that of 1991/92 and 1/4 that of 1981/82, so why take a chance on "change"?
