The by-election was sparked by the resignation in August of sitting Conservative MP Louise Mensch.
Microblogging website Menshn, launched seven months ago by former Conservative MP Louise Mensch, has closed.
The by-election was triggered by former MP Louise Mensch's decision to stand down for family reasons.
Ms Mensch resigned as an MP, having represented Corby since 2010, to move to New York.
So Mr Miliband, and before him Louise Mensch, took the right decision for themselves and for politics.
Mrs Mensch, who won the seat at the 2010 general election, announced she was standing down for family reasons.
Conservative member Louise Mensch criticised Labour members for including the "not fit" line and said the report had lost credibility.
Despite everything, despite Louise Mensch, the recession, the chaotic campaign, more than 9, 000 people still chose to vote Conservative in Corby.
Hank Greenberg's place on this all-time team, for which he has no rivals in major-league baseball, would be that of designated mensch.
The company, which has several of the same early backers as Facebook, lists some of its values as pragmatism, chill-ness and being a mensch.
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Mrs Mensch and Mr Bozier had hoped the site would rival Twitter, enabling microbloggers to contribute in 180-character chunks to discussions "organised around topics".
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On the website ConservativeHome, Ms Dorries wrote that Mrs Mensch was putting "her own ambitions first" and described the outgoing MP for Corby as "void of principle".
The resignation of Conservative MP Louise Mensch and the recent deaths of Labour's Malcolm Wicks and Sir Stuart Bell mean by-elections are due in Corby, Croydon North and Middlesbrough.
Mrs Mensch won the Northamptonshire seat at the 2010 general election with a majority of less than 2, 000 votes, and Labour had been widely tipped to take the seat.
Tory Louise Mensch quit as MP for Corby, while Labour's Tony Lloyd and Alun Michael vacated the Manchester Central and Cardiff South seats to run to become police commissioners.
Mensch has gained prominence in recent months after questioning Rupert Murdoch just before that infamous foam-pie-throwing incident in Parliament, and for a recent Twitter war with Piers Morgan.
One comes away from Mr. Rosengren's biography with a firm notion of Hank Greenberg as a decent human being, a man of integrity and honor, what Jews call a mensch.
Mrs Mensch, the former Conservative MP for Corby, is a prolific Twitter user with over 75, 000 followers, but said she had grown "frustrated" with it before launching the new venture.
Ms Dorries started the ball rolling over the weekend by accusing colleague Mrs Mensch of letting down female MPs and handing a by-election victory to Labour by resigning her seat.
Meanwhile, props to Facebook for being a financial-statement mensch.
It might not be a feud to rival Heath vs Thatcher or Blair vs Brown but the row between Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Louise Mensch is in the tradition of great Westminster spats.
Mrs Mensch attracted a lot of column inches earlier this month when she announced her intention to step down as MP for Corby, saying she was finding it increasingly difficult to juggle career and family.
Mrs Mensch denied she had left the role because she was worried about her popularity in the polls, and again insisted she had not told her husband Peter that she "would get killed at the next election".
Under the guise of an article criticising the Sun's decision to publish naked photos of Prince Harry - a move Mrs Mensch has defended - the MP for Mid Bedfordshire launched a wide-ranging attack on her party colleague.
Conservative MP Louise Mensch went even further, suggested an enforced "blackout" of social media sites during future disturbances, arguing that it would stop inaccurate rumours about trouble (in no short supply on the evenings of the riots) spreading online.
It remains theoretically possible for the Conservatives to corral the smaller parties into their lobby and force the changes through - but the by-election defeat in Corby, in the wake of the departure from the Commons of Louise Mensch, has made the arithmetic a little tougher.
Unless he uses the convention to persuade white male voters that he is, as they say of his running mate, Joe Lieberman, a mensch -- and, since Gore is top man, even more of a mensch than Lieberman -- then his chances in November start to get dim.
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