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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2021 11:52:21 GMT
What a pity there isn't a politician called Stinkpussy.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 2, 2021 18:28:33 GMT
And we won! This used to be a safe Tory seat years ago. Galloway pinched a lot of left wing votes, so the combined left vote far outweighed the Tories. Boris has now lost the last two by elections. Signed a genuine labour clown and proud of it! PS naughtyfox , aren't you impressed with my future predicting skill. Would you like me to lend you my special cup and tea leaves? Next time you are over... Jim !!! Jim!!! it's the truth Jim but not as we know it, not as we know it. not as we know it. Klingons on the starboard bow etc etc
When the boundary was re-drawn it went from a Conservative seat to a Labour seat (1992) and until this last election was a safe Labour seat with a majority varying between 5 and 16 thousand
2016 Labour (16,537 majority) 2017 Labour (8,961 majority) 2019 Labour (3,525 majority) 2021 Labour (323 majority)
It doesn't matter how much the "luvies" try and spin this, there is no way it can be called a great success for Labour In 4 elections to whittle away a 16.5K majority to a few hundred is hardly a great achievment
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Post by metanoia on Jul 2, 2021 19:08:43 GMT
..... and when you remember who the LOCAL candidate IS and who she is trying to replace/represent (bless her and her family - I mean no disrespect to any of them), 323 votes isn't a party political statement at all.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 2, 2021 19:18:07 GMT
I think Nick Hand-cock may have been of some help there... Yes, agreed, also the emotional blackmail factor of Labour selecting Jo Cox's sister as their candidate. In any event, Labour seem to be celebrating a safe seat having become a very marginal seat when the opposition traditionally win mid-term by-elections by a wide margin. Still, for now Sir Kneelalot will manage to cling on.
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Post by metanoia on Jul 2, 2021 19:27:16 GMT
I think Nick Hand-cock may have been of some help there... Yes, agreed, also the emotional blackmail factor of Labour selecting Jo Cox's sister as their candidate. I guessed you had me on "ignore"
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 2, 2021 19:32:37 GMT
Yes, agreed, also the emotional blackmail factor of Labour selecting Jo Cox's sister as their candidate. I guessed you had me on "ignore" Who said that?
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Post by patty on Jul 2, 2021 19:59:25 GMT
..... and when you remember who the LOCAL candidate IS and who she is trying to replace/represent (bless her and her family - I mean no disrespect to any of them), 323 votes isn't a party political statement at all. Yes, I was gonna post something like that but couldn't think how to word. Still despite all these factors ..and I include Matt in this..they didn't win by many
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Post by thebfg on Jul 3, 2021 1:23:48 GMT
..... and when you remember who the LOCAL candidate IS and who she is trying to replace/represent (bless her and her family - I mean no disrespect to any of them), 323 votes isn't a party political statement at all. So they probably would have lost had it not involved the sister.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jul 3, 2021 7:53:12 GMT
Not the nicest thing to do really; using the murder of a politician as a tool in a desperate effort to edge past the post in what used to be a safe Labour seat. Still, the ploy was successful, we should congratulate them for that. Politics has always been a nasty business, nothing has changed in that respect.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 8:10:41 GMT
Not being a supporter of the Tories, I find it depressing to hear Sir Keir Starmer eulogising their historic three hundred vote win in a former safe Labour seat, mid-term of an unpopular government.
I fear we're stuck with the comedy quiz show host and his friends for some time to come.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 8:24:37 GMT
Had not Labour won the day Starmer would have been facing a putsch (which if successful would have been a greater step forward for the party). So it isn't really surprising he's happy.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jul 3, 2021 8:57:31 GMT
Had not Labour won the day Starmer would have been facing a putsch (which if successful would have been a greater step forward for the party). So it isn't really surprising he's happy. Thing is Starmer is a more centrist politician. Many supporters called for someone like him, believing Corbyn was too far to the left to be elected. The far left guy fails, the centrist guy fails, where next? Or is personality the key?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 9:13:19 GMT
Maybe if GG returned to the labour fold he could become the first past the post at the next election................
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 9:18:57 GMT
All you seem to hear of the deeds of Starmer is cat-calling from the front bench, but then again I pay less attention to the day-to-day activities of politicians than football (which I understand to be a game of some type).
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