grabbing, and any other grabbing approach to thejob. grabbing, and any other grabbing approach to the job. what is intriguing is the polling in this observer story also suggests the tory lead in shropshire north, owen paterson s constituency, is really tightening. they won by 63% and the last election. but their lead is now down to only 6% over the lib dems, 44% compared to the lib dems s 38. some people have said you could put a cow up for election there as a tory and it would win because it is such a solid tory constituency. but this suggestion that there may be a tightening of the race, like amersham and chesham earlier this year does suggest that the sleaze issueis year does suggest that the sleaze issue is cutting through. people are thinking, these people all have their noses in the trough, and again, they don t care about it, i m going to make them pay at the ballot box and that s where it will really, really hurt. box and that s where it will really,