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    Walter mitty wrote:
    Tina2 wrote:
    billbob wrote: why do you people keep banging on about what happened 20 or 30 years ago? get over it and get on with it!!!!!!!
    So we are suppose to forget that Kenneth Clarke said that ambulance workers were nothing but 'glorified taxi drivers'
    Tina2,

    I didn't vote Conservative but know many that did, but get a grip !
    Labour Spin, Sleeze, the big brother society we now find ourselves in. As for the Ambulance, in the early 90's Ambos were not as qualified as they are now, No paramedics just ordinary Techs, which are no way as highly qualified as todays Techs !.

    But why should any worker vote for a Party who are no better than the Tories ?? Accusing Firefighters of being friends of Saddam, Baby eaters, Bast#rds, the lies told about the Fire Service were a joke. Ainger Visited Pembroke Dock on the first day of the national strike, he didn't even have the balls to put his own slant on the dispute, but towed the party line, Gutless !!! Dont forget this bloke came to the county for one reason, to get the Americans out of the UK with CND !
    Regarding ambulance personnel,

    I know personally just how much that statement from Kenneth Clarke both hurt and annoyed ambulance staff. They may have not been paramedics at the time he gave his speech but they were no way just glorified taxi drivers as he implied."
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Nick Ainger loses seat to Simon Hart

Long serving Labour MP, Nick Ainger, lost his seat to the Conservatives this morning Long serving Labour MP, Nick Ainger, lost his seat to the Conservatives this morning

LONG serving Labour MP Nick Ainger has lost his seat to the Conservatives.

Mr Ainger, who had served as the constituency MP for South Pembrokeshire for 18 years, lost in the poll to Simon Hart.

Mr Ainger said: "It has been a huge honour and a privilege to represent this constituency.

"It is a wonderful part of the world, as you all know, and we all love it.

"I think in the last 13 years we have seen a transformation in our local economy and we have seen many jobs created, partnerships with local government, the Assembly Government, Government and Europe that have brought prosperity to this area.

"I feel if the incoming governement gets that partnership wrong, then the people of this area will suffer in the same way that they did in the early 80s and 90s.

"It was a great privilege to represent this area and I am very grateful that I was able to do some good in that time."

Mr Ainger has served South Pembrokeshire for 18 years, and West Camarthen for 13 years, since a change in the constituency boundaries.

Mr Hart paid tribute to Mr Ainger and his work in the last 18 years.

He said: "It would be churlish of me not to mention Nick Ainger's long and significant service as our MP. He has never been the enemy, but opposition.

"If I do a job half as well as he has done, I will consider I have made a good impact. I wish him well."

Mr Hart, who has been Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance and previously worked as a chartered surveyor in Carmarthen and Haverfordwest, praised his fantastic campaign team.

"There is no greater challenge, and no greater honour than being asked to represent you in parliament and I'll do my level best, and I will start this very minute, to do justice to the job you have given me."

The full results for the Camarthen West and Pembrokeshire South Constituency were:

  • Nick Ainger (Labour) 13,226
  • Ray Clarke (UKIP) 1,146
  • John Dixon (Plaid Cymru) 4,232
  • John Gossage (Liberal Democrat) 4,890
  • Simon Hart (Conservative) 16,649
  • Hentry Langen (Independent Democrat) 364

Provisional figures show a turnout of 69%. The result was declared by returning officer Bryn Parry Jones at 3.50am.

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