Election candidate pipped at the post - 'by Royal Mail'!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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A CONSERVATIVE candidate was left fuming - after a Royal Mail mix up sent her election leaflets to the WRONG constituency!
Michelle Donelan, the Tory candidate for Wentworth and Dearne, said Royal Mail sent her election material to the incorrect sorting offices... and it ended up being delivered in Tankersley.

The candidate said she only found out about the error after she received a telephone call on April 28, from a resident of Tankersley.

She said: "My election address was supposed to be at the post office earlier last week, but I was let down by my printer and now I find out it has been sent to the wrong places!

"I will be taking this matter further after the election but my real concern is that all constituents get my address because the entire constituency has a right to know what their Conservative candidate hopes to offer .

"I want to be a strong northern voice in the area but now voters may doubt this if they do not get my address or get it late.

"I have said that the concerns of constituents will be my priorities but now voters will question that - especially postal voters who may have already sent their vote back in.

"I have now lost an entire day due to this error, when I should have been out in the community meeting with residents. This is a shambolic mistake."

[DirtyHarry]

Oh, dear.

[Lounge Lizard]

"I was let down by my printer" but would rather blame Royal Mail. Typical.

[clashcityrocker]

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when I should have been out in the community

I didn't think the Tories approved of care in the community.

[DirtyHarry]

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when I should have been out in the community

I didn't think the Tories approved of care in the community.

They're the bunch of shytes who introduced so-called "care in the community."

[Straight4ward]

Angry of Wentworth & Dearne.

Well it makes a change from Tunbridge Wells. Has anyone informed Private Eye yet?

[sevenandseven]

The Good Lady lost by over 10,000 votes to the Labour candidate Dennis McShane and even in coalition with the Mini-Cons (Lib-Dems) would not have caught him.

[DGP1]

The Good Lady lost by over 10,000 votes to the Labour candidate Dennis McShane and even in coalition with the Mini-Cons (Lib-Dems) would not have caught him.

Is that not what's meant by 'pipped at the post' these days

[maisymoo04]

so funny well done royal snail

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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The British National Party (BNP) is demanding a full and frank criminal investigation after thousands of General Election leaflets allegedly went undelivered by Royal Mail staff.

The party claims that up to 3,000 leaflets may have been deliberately misplaced by staff at Watford’s Ascot Road sorting office – meaning that they went undelivered to homes in the Bedmond area.

As a result, activists are suggesting, Parliamentary candidate Deirdre Gates was robbed of vital votes in her unsuccessful campaign for the South West Hertfordshire seat.

Party activist Simon Deacon claimed the party’s fifth place finish, behind the United Kingdom Independence Party, could have been improved if the leaflets had reached their intended destination.

He said: “We don’t know what difference these leaflets could have made, whether they would have improved our result or not, but we only just behind UKIP – who we wanted to beat.

“The worse thing is that we will never know because somebody at the Post Office decided that some people should not see these leaflets.

“We are upset because they cost a lot of money to produce and that people haven’t seen them.

“I think it should be up to the people Bovingdon what leaflets they choose to read.”

Royal Mail confirmed yesterday that an investigation into the matter was ongoing but chose not to comment directly on the party’s claims.

Hertfordshire Constabulary, meanwhile, confirmed this afternoon that it too was investigating the party’s claims.

A spokesman said: “We’ve been made aware of a complaint and are working with the Post Office whether any criminal activities have taken place.”

Deirdre Gates, who represents the South Oxhey ward at Hertfordshire County Council, has been unavailable for comment.

[Lounge Lizard]

BENSON Mark UK Independence Party1450
GATES Deirdre Anne British National Party1302
GAUKE David Michael Conservative30773 ELECTED
HANNAWAY James Independent846
MANN Harry Labour6526
TOWNSEND Christopher Francis Liberal Democrat15853

So the BNP whinger came 29,471 votes behind the elected Conservative. and is daft enough to try blaming anyone but himself.