I worked in Grimsby in 2015 and I can tell you, it's Labour MP Melanie Onn is a thick as pig muck.
She seemed more like a supermarket check out kid than an MP.
I can't say I came across the tv lady but Kelly Smith seemed a bright lad.
If memory serves me right, he went for but missed out on Louth and Horncastle.
That went to the lovely and bright Victoria Atkins, whose only major mistake was campaigning for Remain in a very strong Leave/Ukippy area.
Hopefully, she was just been loyal to David Cameron.
If the Tories wish to win Grimsby, it will have to pick a Leaver as it is a very strong leave area.
There again, it could be a nice seat the Tories could gift to UKIP by picking a Remainer.

I am sure you'd get through on merit Elaine.
Many decent Conservative women have.
I only have to think of dear old Maggie and wish we could clone her.
But yes, it has to be done on merit , whatever sex or sexuality they are, or theire colour.
Or you get over promoted blithering idiots that we see so much of in the Labour party.
Cameron was guilty of such discrimination too.
We only have to think of Louise Mensch.
She's a complete conspiratorial nutcase.
Have you seen her latest tweets?
It's all the fault of Putin.
No doubt the Russians are hacking central office computers as we speak and Putin is also responsible for trying to block Dan Hannan!

Fair comment Tory leftist and a view i might had myself until recently.
But I have witnessed much here in Tendring.
UKIP friends and councillors used to tell me Carswell was a Tory Turncoat, a secret agent, not one of them etc.
They would cite the absence of UKIP branding on his office, that he did not work with the UKIP councillors on Tendring Council and so on. That he never took that parliamentary money, when UKIP desperately needed it.
And with his constant spats against Nigel, well, Douglas was like a wrecking ball inside the party. No wonder the local Kippers celebrated when he left.
But in recent weeks, it has all fallen into place, the halfway house shift as an independent, then campaigning for a Harwich Tory and his recommendation to say Vote Tory. Now, he is about to release some survey saying Kippers are returning to the Tories in Clacton.
You could say the scales have fallen from my eyes and it is all too clear to see.
Had Douglas been a proper Kipper, he would not have damaged the party so much.
He would have done the opposite of the things listed above.
He also would not have said 'job done' so prematurely.
We still have two years to see what Brexit deal the PM comes up with, or whether there will be a deal.
Propper Kippers should bide their time, like I am, and keep the faith.
UKIP needs as much support as it can to maximise its pressure on the government, though I accept there will be a need in places to vote tactically to defeat Remain MPs and to elect Leave ones, regardless of Party.
Its not a matter of bluekip or redkip but truekip.

Clacton UKIP would be ecstatic to have Nigel as candidate, not so sure about Nuttall.
They have to choose between an excellent local candidate in Jeff Bray or Arron Banks, who is brimming with ideas and glamour.
Whatever they decide, they will unite afterwards. There has been too much division in UKIP, both locally and nationally
Much is down to Douglas Carswell. It seemed the stuff of fantasy that he was some plant, a secret agent brought in to 'detoxify' UKIP and the anti-EU campaign. But as his behaviour has shown, with him now backing the Tories, it shows he was a secret agent all along.
I accept that Farage and co may have been a bit full-on for some of the metropolitan types, but it was the Leave.EU campaign that brought out others in the places 'left behind.' One cancelled out the other.
And any benefit from the supposed moderation of the Carswellites was cancelled out by the splits and division it caused, that the media feasted upon.
We also need to look at how Tories hijacked UKIP for their own ends. Yet it is UKIP that is blamed by the media when these Tory politicians return home. UKIP were innocent victims in the hands of careerist Tories, yet the party gets blamed fopr such conservative skulduggery.
In Tendring, we had several Tory councillors who defected to UKIP and have since defected back to the Tories, with a spell as an Independent in between. They did it simply to save their own skins. They knew which way the political wind was blowing. They were not true Kippers at all. They were not loyal to the Purple Army.
Of course, it is clear that David Cameron was UKIP's greatest recruiting sergeant, other than dear Nigel, and for now Theresa has appeal too.
But how much can Theresa May be trusted? We have seen how she is a Remainer and despite the talk of brexit meaning breaxit, we have seen the Home Secretary and Ruth Davidson talking about a big Tory majority needed so May can isolate the more hardline brexiteers.
It's early days in the campaign. But if it looks like May and the Tories look like they will deliver a soft and artificial brexit, the Tories and May will pay. UKIP will rise from the ashes like a phoenix. We have had a decent enough boost from May's 0.7 per cent promise on foreign aid, especially as it came with Hammond talking of tax rises and the end of the triple lock over pensions.
UKIP's support has bottomed out. The next set of polls will be back in our favour.
And with Labour support as it is, expect UKIP gains in the north, as well as Clacton, especially as looks like, the Tories here pick a remainer as their candidate.

I recall in the 1980s moderate Tory friends of mine deliberately voted for the SDP-Lib Alliance to stop Margaret Thatcher becoming too powerful. Certainly, early in the 1983 campaign I recall the tories approached 50% in the polls and then there was the 'surge' where the Alliance shot up to 25%, just 4 % behind Foot's Labour Party.

UKIP is also part of that pincer movement , especially in Essex and the North.
Many former labour voters won't want to go all the way to the Tories and will favour Ukip.
Especially after the Tories yesterday made their triple blunder.
Keeping foreign aid at 0.7 per cent.
Threatening the end of the triple lock, so the tories are putting aid above our pensioners.
And Hammond threatening tax rises.
Oh and I forgot, we have the Tories stumbling over mass migration and too many Tories see a big majority as a way of dealing with the Eurosceptics and delivering a soft or rather Brexit-in-name only.
UKIP has much to fight for, which is why we feel so much happier by the day.

So let's get this right then?
Theresa May is prioritising the foreign aid budget before our pensioners.
In other words, our pensioners will be paying for that 0.7 per cent committment.
If not them, it will be the taxpayer who will pay for it, or maybe both.
Philip Hammond is also killing off the tax weapon to use against Labour.
A great day for UKIP. We know what the people want. We know what is common sense.
Thanks Theresa. You are helping us win back Clacton and gain a few seats elsewhere in Essex and the North.

Clacton Kippers are celebrating tonight.
As Carswell sniffs the ermine, they now have the luxury of choice.
For a time today they even thought their wildest fantasy might come true, that Nigel Farage might stand here, making the most of the mass love he experienced when he visited Clacton last June..
But what bliss it was to see the troublesome turncoat call it a day and prepare for a life tending his garden or promoting his book.
That a Bad Boy of Brexit had chased the Tory plant right out of town.
So what now for the Clacton Kippers? Who do they choose?
Do they ride the tiger with Mr Banks, whose friends are already helping him with plans for the economic regeneration of Clacton?
Or do they go for the salt of the earth local councillor like Jeff Bray, who has a sound record of service and has been cutting a dash on our tv screens.
Either way, UKIP is looking strong locally and claims much support for the upcoming county elections, despite the wider picture nationally.
If only the Clacton Conservatives could only pick a Remoaner then their dreams would come true.
Guess what, the two Tories who have put their names forward, Councillor Giles Watling and Tendring Council Leader Neil Stock are!
Oh what joy it is to be a Clacton Kipper!

So Douglas Carswell is off to the House of Lords.
That is what local Tories are saying in Clacton.
That way he does not stand for re-election as an Independent.
That way, he presents no threat to the likely Tory candidate Giles Watling of Bread fame, who looks set to take the seat now.
Had Douglas been the official Tory candidate, all out war would have broken out amongst the Clacton Tory branch.
Many, if not most, still see him as a turncoat. Many activists would have refused to campaign for him, never mind vote for him. Some were to back UKIP in protest, especially if the party found a good, local candidate.
Lord Carswell of Clacton might not fit in well with the Rebel who seeks to bring down the establishment.
Still, in the House of Lords, Douglas will have a platform to air his views, which admittedly are extremely sound.
He can depart Westminster with some dignity in tact and perhaps also gain a job in a think tank with his mate Dan Hannan.

So why was Sweden attacked yesterday??
It had no colonial empire, no involvement on foreign wars.
It could not have been more PC and Islamo-friendly.
Still, the 'old Swedes', whom the Swedish government is so keen to replace with 'New Swedes' are still infidels!
Perhaps that is the reason for the attack yesterday.
Oh and terrorists are responsible not trucks.
Media take note with your headlines.