The CON team tries to turn it round with eight campaigning days to go
Lib Dem housing horror, shock, smear, cute bunnies in #Eastleigh ! twitter.com/byelection/sta…
— Michael Fabricant (@Mike_Fabricant) February 19, 2013
Will this approach resonate with voters?
With both the LAB and CON candidates being under serious fire in recent days the blues are turning their guns on the Lib Dem over a big planning issue. Their leaflet is above.
One of the problems with having a local councillor as a candidate is that he/she is always vulnerable to things like this when real decisions have to be made by the council.
Whether this becomes the smoking gun is hard to say but there’s little doubt that the Lib Dems are a bit more on the defensive.
In the end it is not an issue itself that can turn things but the perception of how that is handled by the candidate.
Mike Smithson
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