The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7352 p677
4 June 2005

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General election

Not disappointed

From Mr D. Wood, MRPharmS

As you rightly say in a news item (PJ, 14 May, p572), I did lose my deposit in Barnsley Central in the general election, but I was far from disappointed by my result.

It was my first attempt and I received 1,175 votes. I helped to reduce the New Labour majority by 2,500 votes. In eight years, it has dropped from 24,501 to 12,732 — which is quite a change for Barnsley. A “national figure” — Robert Kilroy Silk — only managed just over 2,000 votes and Arthur Scargill’s Labour Socialist Party, only managed 740 votes in Barnsley East.

Six years ago I was the first independent candidate to stand in a local election in Barnsley, when the opposition was three out of a council of 66 members. I did not get elected, but that does not matter. Now the opposition is 23 out of 63 so I did start the ball rolling for change.

Donald Wood
Barnsley, South Yorkshire

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