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their candidate in Eastleigh  By Harry Phibbs Follow Harry on
Twitter  The Labour candidate in the Eastleigh byelection John
O'Farrell, writing in his memoirs, Things Can Only Get Better,
said:  "Complex political debate is all very well, but generally
most issues can be sorted out simply by deciding who are the
nicest people."  He added:  "So that's all that Socialists
needed to say is: 'Vote Labour because were nicer.' "  I think
Mr O'Farrell genuinely felt that the key point about
Conservatives was that they were nasty. He would go canvassing
Patmore Estate in Queenstown Ward and be shown mould on the wall
of one of the council flats. He would conclude the cause must be
the malevolence of the Tory councillors in Wandsworth. It would
not occur to him, for instance, that Council flats in Labour
boroughs might have similar