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We are now only three weeks away from the general election. At previous general elections, I have sometimes heard negative feedback saying 'you are all the same' and that 'it makes no difference whoever gets in'. I have not heard such feedback this time which doesn't surprise me as the differences between the two choices could not be any greater.
The Conservative View with Cllr Duncan Crow SUS-170126-103712001The Conservative View with Cllr Duncan Crow SUS-170126-103712001
The Conservative View with Cllr Duncan Crow SUS-170126-103712001

It is obvious that this election will see one of two possible outcomes. Either, there will be a Conservative majority with Theresa May as Prime Minister, or there will be a coalition of chaos of Labour and the SNP with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister. Some may think that the latter is impossible due to the Conservatives being well ahead in the polls, but I remember 2010 under Gordon Brown’s disastrous government only too well. We Conservatives were well ahead in the polls back then but we still didn’t end up winning a majority of seats. Many people assumed we would win easily and therefore didn’t vote.

With the Liberal Democrats having since collapsed and being replaced by the left-wing SNP as the UK’s third party, any coalition from this election could only be a Labour/SNP one. There is a real risk of this happening despite us Conservatives being ahead in the polls, many of which have famously not been accurate in recent years.

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Over the last forty years, whoever has won in Crawley has been from the same party that has formed the government. When Laura Moffatt won in Crawley for Labour in 1997, 2001 and 2005, it was Tony Blair who became a Labour Prime Minister. When Henry Smith won in Crawley in 2010 and 2015, it was David Cameron who became a Conservative Prime Minister.

Crawley is clearly once again a two-horse race and it will either be Henry Smith for the Conservatives or Labour’s candidate who will become our MP. Make no mistake; every vote in Crawley for Henry Smith will be a vote for Theresa May as Prime Minister whereas every vote for Labour’s candidate will be a vote for Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.