Labour's campaign in Crewe is now beyond parody

John

ROFL. 'Beyond parody' indeed, although that's putting it mildly. These people are literally insane.

Nick Kaplan

Quite amazing that this women thinks being single and unemployed are good reasons to be elected. Being an MP is a time consuming job, it’s hard enough for someone with a partner and a couple of kids let alone single and with 5. Her being unemployed is neither a reason to vote for or against her, but if she had a successful career (such as the Conservative candidate does), that could be a reason to vote.

David

Thankfully, if she doesn't get the job, she can always rely on Gordon Brown's hugely complicated system of tax credits to eventually give her too much of our money.

Philip Wright

Also to quote her double-barrledness' (no sign of "toffery" there then)own words this morning, "I have six acres ...".

David Lindsay

I don't know what Cheshire is coming to. They could have a proper dynast, but instead seem on course to pick some noov with a cobbler's shop.

Tanuki

*Five* kids? If the woman is unable to work out her required schedule of taking the pill, why should anyone put their trust in her as a MP?

Austin Barry

Just to compound Tamsin's street cred, I see that she was born amidst the seething sink estates and scythe-wielding cider-fuelled tearaways of Totnes, Devon.

Chuck Unsworth

Is she some sort of 'Victim'?

She's 'unemployed'? So are a great number of ladies of leisure...

Tiberius

As Blackadder might have said, "you have the brain of a foetal amoeba".

Patrick

0900hrs Monday 26 May 2008, Haverfordwest Job Centre.

"Counter Number 30 please."

"Yes Madam? How can I help?"

"I am just a single, unemployed mother of five fighting hard for a job. Gisa job.”

"Really. Oh hang on a mo, aren't you that Toff basher from Crewe. Sorry but here in Haverfordwest we only have Local jobs for Local People"

"But I am local!"

"Next."

Ann

Tanuki, you just beat me to that one.
Yea Gods ... they'll vote a donkey into Parliament next. Oh yes, sorry: they already have. Just look at the 'Labour' front bench.

Water

The BBC site states that "Ms Dunwoody's website says: 'Do you want a Tory con man or a Dunwoody?'" What claptrap! I'm with Ann on this one they're praying to the lamentable Labour God's again.

Nicholas

Ann, that is most unkind; donkeys are invariably hard worked beasts of burden that do not deserve to be compared to the vacuous, parasitic wastrels and weasels occupying the Labour front bench.

Ian C

So now Parliament is a good way of getting unemployed single mums back to work. Only the Labour party could dream that one up!! Pass me the sickbag.

Fergus Pickering

I just had to burst into song though I don't supppose it will come out properly. But perhaps you can unscramble it. It's called 'Tamsin's Lament'.

A single mother unemployed,
A single mother of five,
I’m fighting just to earn a crust
To keep us all alive.

The Tory Toff can b*****r off.
He’s such a horrid snob.
The sonovabitch is filthy rich
And doesn’t need the job.

So cast your vote for me and mine.
It makes a lot of sense.
The whole damn crew will work for you
At Government expense.

Water

"vacuous, parasitic wastrels and weasels occupying the Labour front bench" hahaha

Ted Tedford

I hope the Labour campaign mobilises the much-maligned out-of-touch snob/anti-single mother/elitist/misogynist vote.

No one ever speaks up for us.

Water

Tedford you're right there attacking her because she's a single mother isn't on. But calling Timpson a 'con man' isn't on either, the dirt is flying both ways.

Ann

Nicholas, I sit corrected. Donkeys are charming, honest, hard-working animals, totally unlike the 'Labour' front bench in every possible respect.
But please don't insult weasels, who are charming, honest, hard-working animals compared with the 'Labour' front bench.
Water, it's perfectly reasonable to attack her for being a single mother, once she herself has brought up this supposed qualification for being an MP. And having 5 kids is feckless, whether married or not.

Maisie

Good God she really does hold the C&N voters in contempt doesn't she?

Cogito, Facio Fio!

Stop being so heartless, you rotten lot! Why, the Dunwoodys are so poor that when they walk through the park the ducks throw bread at them.

Ann

Ducks? Ducks??? When I'twere but lass, we couldn't afford a park, much less ducks.

Water

Ann you're right on that matter, it's not a qualification, but I was saying simply with regards to her being a single mother. Though it is reasonable as you say "nce she herself has brought up this supposed qualification for being an MP".

Austin Barry

The Dunwoody's were so poor they used to sell clothes pegs to Gyp..er, no, er sorry....hmmm, hmms. Here's another, when Tamsin was a kid the Dunwoody's were so poor they couldn't afford laxatives, so they used to sit little Tamsin on the potty and tell her ghost stories.

Luke Akehurst

Come and join our campaign against the Tory toff. We're all meeting up tomorrow at Moyra's country estate in the morning, then riding cross country to Crewe for some leafleting before returning to the Pembrokeshire National Park for a spot of game shooting. All New Labour supporters welcome.

Beyond parody? I don't think so - see my blog post "All Hands To The Septic Tank Pumps" for further details.

Pip pip!

Ann

And she still has verbal diarrhoea, by the looks of it ...

Rex Burr

Single, unemployed mother of five.
A role model for an overcrowded country in terminal decline.

David Lindsay

According to The World At One, the Labour leaflets show Timson's silver fish knives. Fish knives? Fish knives! I think we can safely say that Miss Dunwoody does not have fish knives.

salieri

Fish-knives? How vulgar. The royal family use only fish-forks. But I don't think we can safely say Miss D does not have them either. She have have inherited some from her pre-single-unemployed-mum-with-kids-minor-aristocracy days. One never knows, do one?

For older readers - wasn't there a fall-guy called Mr. Dimwiddy in the Jimmy Edwards series 'Whack-o'?

Austin Barry

Salieri, that was Mr Dinnwiddie played by affable Gordon Phillott. That I know this is quite sad.

salieri

Thanks, Austin. I can picture him even now but never knew his name. (Not sad at all to be well informed.)

Fergus Pickering

Of course it's not sad, Austin. It shows your memory's still in tip-top shape. Which is more than can be said for mine.

Newgateblue

What sort of money has this enemployed single mother of five been earning as a public servant and for how long? Approx size and value of chez Tamsin?