Leaked ‘non-target’ list shows Tories waving white flag to UKIP

by Guest Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:02 pm

Tuesday 10 February 16:37

The Tories’ claimed ambition to form a non-coalition government at the forthcoming election have been dealt a body blow, with analysis of CCHQ’s list of ‘non-target seats’ by Scrapbook showing they have given up on several constituencies required form a working majority. These include the Conservative/UKIP marginals of Rochester & Strood and Boston & Skegness — both of which the party held in May 2010 and one of which has a sitting Tory MP!

In what has been described by ConservativeHome as a “schoolboy error”, someone from the Tory HQ web team decided to upload images of certain Westminster hopefuls into a folder called “non target candidates”, giving everyone a sneak peak of seats they reckon are either super-safe or no-hopers.

Suffice it to say UKIP are cock-a-hoop.

And with the Tories currently 20 seats short of a majority, others include:

#23 Plymouth Moor View (Labour majority 1,588)
#25 Eltham
#26 Walsall South
#32 Exeter
#35 Oldham East and Saddleworth
#37 Luton South
#38 Bridgend

With ‘real’ target seats being saturated with direct mail, this likely confirms the what local politicos already suspected.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/02/conservatives-website-glitch-reveal-the-tory-non-target-seats/

Funnily enough, the Conservative website mentioned as being the culprit https://www.conservatives.com/~/media/Images/Site%20Redesign/Profile%20Pictures/Non%20target%20candidates/Chamali-Fernando.ashx …
now says

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