Day 163: Drew

[Silent Hunter]

David Drew, Lab/Co-op, Stroud.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A rural M.P with a rural accent. Quite unusual.

[merseysider]

a left-winger in a marginal seat, which is even more unusual.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

a left-winger in a marginal seat, which is even more unusual.

Might actually help him in Stroud; the town itself has something of an "alternative" bent and the Greenies do well there in local elections. He's also quite socially conservative (which presumably helps in the more traditionalist parts of his seat).

[Serenity Now]

a left-winger in a marginal seat, which is even more unusual.

Generally true, although the 1997 Labour intake had some such examples, including Bob-Marshall-Andrews in Medway, Phil Sawford in Kettering and John Cryer in Hornchurch..

I reckon such lefties got in because the Millbank set never expected Labour could win these seats..

I'm sure everyone has noticed it, but a lot of Labour left-wingers elected in 1983 were in seats held by SDP defectors.. Amusing but unsurprising how the SDP defectors effectively pushed the Parliamentary Labour party to the left..