Election letter from David Cameron to voters spells constituency name wrong

David Cameron Downing St Number 10

There are a number of Labour-held seats that the Tories are piling money into during this campaign. Southampton Itchen, where John Denham is stepping down after 23 years and Labour have a majority of just 192, is one of them.

The Conservatives have even splashed out on a cardboard cut-out of the Tory candidate there, as part of a summer campaign last year called “Where’s Royston?” which seemed only to highlight the absence of the actual candidate. We’ve heard of paper candidates, but this is ridiculous etc etc.

Now the lucky people of that Southampton Itchen have been treated a personal letter from none other than the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom himself, David Cameron.

Unfortunately, there’s just no pleasing some. Voters in the marginal seat, rather than be humbled by the letter, took to social media to facetiously point out that he’d made one tiny spelling mistake: he’d got Southampton Itchen wrong.

Not once, not twice, but at least three times during the letter David Cameron refers to the all important seat as “Southampton Itchin”. Still, this should stop Ed Miliband claiming that the Tory leader never talks about the future.

https://twitter.com/sheppard_tom/status/585508378857906176

After several polls showing a dead heat in the constituency, Labour candidate Rowenna Davis showed a healthy lead for the first time there last month. We can’t imagine why that would be.

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