Extraordinary! Or perhaps not for the Labour candidate Ms Dunwoody to emphasise she is a single mother of 5 who does not work (when she is clearly able to).

Our taxes are paying to support this clearly intelligent and capable women and her children who does not work.
Extraordinary!

Jeff B, Addlestone, UK

So does Tamsin Dunwoody live in a semi detached house on a council estate in Pembrokeshire and did she go to a normal comprehensive school. Their are more Toffs in the Labour party then the Tories. What a disgusting campaign, don't they understand that the British public have found them out and know that they are obsessed with money for themselves, look at Blair, Prescott and Levy.

dave reardon, Nuneaton,

I think it laughable that people in this day and age actually think that having had a comfortable upbringing and a good education should make you somehow unfit to govern. That's just the politics of envy.

Stu, Leicester,

"I'm just a single, unemployed mother of five fighting hard for a job". So it is the job she wants not a feeling of wanting to be of service to the public.

William , London,

Let's hope Gordon Brown's Whitsun break in Scotland is a one-way ticket.

Brian Roberts , Plymouth, UK

OH God , no. Please let Labour win , I'm not sure I could stand another Sunday of Gordon repairing the damage on the telly.

Donny B, EDINBURGH,

This government is dead and needs to be buried. Can't you smell its rotting corpse?

clive, dartford,

Wow Tamsin Dunwoody is "one of us"? How working class can you be with a Barness for a grandmother. Makes the Queen positively chavvy.

Mike, Middlesbrough,

Dunwoody's mother was a giant steeped in honesty & enjoyed respect across the political divide as someone with integrity & principles like Tony Benn.

This DHSS claimant will ruin her mother's legacy. I am guessing that she sees the Westminster gravy train as her way to the toff monied class.

Belarmino Vaz, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Labour Who! GB Who! - does anyone recognise them any more.

YT, London, UK

I hope Labour are so hammered in this by-election that they never recover. Perhaps we can then create a new political party that honours its name. Yes that's right...... the 'LABOUR' party. This lot represent no-one.

judy, liverpool, england

Labour hates indivuduals to show initiative and to be successful from their own efforts. This is why they are running such a negative campaign in Crewe.

Their egomainia and desire to control everything and everybody will be their downfall - and not a moment too soon either!

Peter, London,

Whoever thought up the 'Tory toff ' campaign to promote a single unemployed mother of 5 should be a candidate him or herself,


for idiot of the year that is.

Martin, Reading, UK

New Labour will say and do anything to cling to power.
Trouble is we no longer believe in them as a Government and are no longer taken in by their lies.

Stephen, Withington, UK

Labour is dead in the water and GB knows this really !!!!

Ian Payne, WALSALL,

I agree with Roger, and I say that as a Labour supporter. The party has been in power for 11 years and instead of running on its record in government, it is reduced to insulting the opposition. The choice of Tamsin Dunwoody as the candidate also insults the electorate.

Roy, Bristol,

I would prefer it if Ms Dunwoody got an actual job instead of wasting my tax paying money on the myriad of benefits, she no doubt claims; instead of swanning around and trying to get elected.

Chantel, Wales,

A single mother of 5 without a job? Well qualified for public office then........

Doug Bates, St. Albans,

The way that the labour party has behaved during this by election campaign is not the way that I expect a party in government to behave. It is too late now for senior ministers and officials to try and distance themselves from what has happened. They should have taken action to stop it at the start.

John MOORE, Paphos, Cyprus

Politics has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds. Labour simply harnesses prejudice for party political ends.

That is very distinct from government of the people by the people for the people. It is more like government of the people by the Labour party for the Labour party.

Ubi, Edinburgh, UK

Bill has it about right.

The time to be ruled by a rich lawyer born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a well connected network at hand to help over life's little difficulties is long past , but what else is there for the people of Crewe?

Abstaining seems the far better choice all around..

Rob , Essex, England

so now you can get job seekers allowance to try and become a pollie , wish i had known that, what a rort!!
5 kids , unemployed and a single mum.... the very thing we should be trying to stamp out! she has already sold her soul by being one of the Nulabour employees!

alan, london, england

I'm starting to wonder if there is a single thing that Labour can't and won't mess up completely . Presumably not .

Benzo, Nr Chelmsford,

“We have made no apologies for the stuff we have done regarding making it clear that Tamsin Dunwoody is one of us, somebody who understands the concerns of local residents." What a laugh... the Labour government are totally out of touch with the vast majority of ordinary people.

Andrew Brown, derby, UK

No expert on Crewe apart from a few visits to Gresty Rd, but I would have thought that, in Cheshire of all places, an English 'toff' would have the edge over a welsh candidate.

Strange place to play the class card methinks.

james, burnley,

Let's see. The Tories haven't won a by-election since Julius Caesar was a nipper, and Labour has a 7000 majority to defend, but Labour are now reduced to pretending that a loss is only to be expected because it's "tough in mid-term". That's pathetic. Labour is becoming the "excuses" party.

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/USA

I remain astonished that senior Labour figures, together with all their expensive advisors and strategists, ever thought the purile "Tory toff" campaign would be a success.

It highlights the kind of clueless stupidity that now rules Labour. And they have the nerve to suggest that Timpson may not be fit to be an MP!

Chris K, Cheltenham, UK

It is clear from their campaign that the Labour party has no vision and certainly no ideas to offer the electorate, hence their pathetic class based campaign. Labour now needs a long period in opposition to try to work out what it is for, because at the moment it certainly is not obvious.

Roger, swindon,

Never mind Moyra Tamsin Dunwoody-Kneafsey can return to home in Pembrokeshire after Thursday releeved that she will not have to commute from Pemrokeshire

Edward, Newbury, England

"Mr Brown plans to spend the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend in Scotland with his family."

He sounds like Nero fiddling while the Labour Party burns.

Ian, London, UK

She is single, unemployed and a mother five????

There is a whiff of reckless abandon in there somewhere.

Fit to be an MP? I think not.

Bill, Suzhou, China