"Let the people decide", says Bridget, as Labour's Islington MPs vote against holding General Election

2.14.52pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 15th Jun 2009

Bridget Fox: backing calls for a General Election now

Local Liberal Democrats have accused the borough's Labour MPs of 'running scared' after both Emily Thornberry and Jeremy Corbyn voted against dissolving Parliament and holding an immediate general election.

Opposition MPs from all parties backed the call for an election following months of expenses scandals and a succession of Ministers quitting the Government. But Labour back-benchers backed Gordon Brown and rejected the move.

Local Liberal Democrat contender Bridget Fox says that the country needs a change, and it's time to call an election now.

Bridget said:

"We need a general election now. Gordon Brown's Government is exhausted and divided. In the European elections, Labour had the worst election results since World War One.

"Local Labour MP Emily Thornberry has been on the wrong side of all the big arguments; for example, she voted against reforming the crooked expenses system. This follows her votes for abolishing the 10p tax rate, for the ID card scheme and against saving our post offices. It's time for a change.

"Labour claim they are going places in Islington, but the actions of their MP s show they are running scared.

"So many Islington residents are fed up with politics as usual. They want a clear out and clean up of Westminster; only a general election can deliver that now."

Emily Thornberry has one of the smallest majorities in the country of only 484. Ladbrokes recently gave Labour odds of holding Islington South and Finsbury of 6/4 as opposed to 1 / 2 for the Liberal Democrats.

Details of Labour's vote against holding a General Election can be seen online at:

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2009-06-10&number=146