One of the hardest fought election campaigns is going to be in Swansea West, where the Liberal Democrats are pressing very hard to take the seat. The incumbent Labour Party have a new candidate in Geraint Davies, the former MP for Croydon Central whose main claim to fame was that he had the highest expenses of any MP in the year he lost his seat, in marked contrast to previous years.
Mr. Davies has a campaigning website, which to be fair, is the only significant on-line presence that Labour has in Swansea. Much of the content is the usual misleading and often factually incorrect attacks on the Liberal Democrat-led Swansea Council, but the one feature that stands out is the facility to donate to Mr. Davies’ campaign on the front page.
This feature has been there for many months together with a target of £7,500 and an indicator to monitor progress. That yard-stick has been stuck on zero since the start and remains so to this day, despite the General Election campaign being a week old. As a measure of the enthusiastic and spontaneous grassroots support that the Labour candidate is generating it is a pretty big fail.
In fact on that basis I think it would be fair to surmise that Labour in Swansea West is failing to attract any support at all. That must be embarrassing enough for them without advertising the fact to all and sundry.
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Their website looks like a rant,