"I nearly won" Cru boss Maguire bags just 307 votes for English Dems

Jon Maguire, cru Investment Management director, won just 307 votes for the English Democrats in his Wiltshire constituency last night, and cheekily declared "I nearly won it".

Maguire, at the centre of a blame game following the suspension last year of the £400m Arch cru fund range which left investors' cash frozen, bagged just 0.6% of the 52,320 votes cast in Chippenham The Liberal Democrat candidate Duncan Hames won the seat with almost 24,000 votes, followed by Tory incumbent Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones with 21,500. "We nearly won it! No, I think it's fine. I think it's quite sweet really [to win 307 votes] because we didn't really try," he says. "The only reason I stood was because we needed 90 candidates to qualify for a party political broadcast on one ...