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Plenty of choice, but no choice

James Turley looks at the unappetising range of candidates in Oldham East and Saddleworth The background to the January 13 Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election is well-known - Phil Woolas, a particularly odious reactionary even by New Labour standards, scraped home in the seat by a margin of 103 votes last May, only to be stripped ...