An independent councillor in the fight for a place on Fenland District Council said he had stood for election to make a deliberate statement. While most of the voters in the North East Cambridgeshire Constituency were focused solely on voting for a new MP the people of Whittlesey South Ward of the district council were also choosing a new councillor in a by-election. The Tories’ Gurninder Gill won the seat with 988 votes, to independent Martin Curtis’ 841. Third place went Clayton Payne of the Workers Party of Britain, who polled 274 votes. In his post-election speech Mr Curtis said he had sto…