Tactical voting innit. Plenty in Somerton. Not quite enough in Uxbridge, gammon cesspit of a place though it is, but evidence people are wising up to it. Some and They don’t appear to see this.
I would laugh heartily if both Sir Rodney & Rashid Sanook died suddenly, which I'm guessing makes me pro Tory scum ?
For me it would be like Manchester City & Liverpool playing in a cup , I like it when both lose but I laugh harder when it's Liverpool because they are mopey scum ****s like Labour & their fan boys take losing much harder & believe they should win every season because of Hillsborough. It's never fair It's always someone else's fault. This doesn't make me a Man City fan. I even made the analogy a colour choice between red & blue for the super low IQ amongst us.
They've spent years and a lot of effort desperately trying ignore the reality that laughing at their stupidity and adherence to an ideology rather than applying individual thought and critical thinking is not the same as us supporting the groups that they oppose. Basically, they're thick bigots who don't really know what they're voting for.
In fairness, not getting more than a 7.5% swing in the London area is not good. Selby is more of an outlier, as the seat won't even exist at the next GE, and I think the Tories are pretty well resigned to losing back what they gained in the 2019 GE in the North, but Uxbridge gives them great hope in the Greater London and Home Counties area. BUT, Frome tips it the other way outside the Home Counties in the South and the South West - what they gain in GLA they lose in the South West and the North. One thing is clear, especially in what COULD be 18 months' time; Labour is nowhere near doing a 1997 GE again. They'll be lucky, at this rate, to be the biggest single party (and that might be a blessing). And the Tories could well get out of this with 250+ seats, if not being the biggest single party. Importantly, that means they probably won't have a bloodbath and splinter, and after 5 years of a coalition mired deep in the Tories' economic holocaust that could take a decade at least to start fixing, they'll be back - somehow untarnished - around 2029/30. And that really, really will be Tufton St 'Paradise'.
Uxbridge doesn’t feel very London when you’re there. A dump commuter town like Slough. Out of Labour’s reach for decades even with Blair. Proper Tory cuck wasteland and with fewer students than there’d normally be.
Perhaps, but I saw an analysis a few months ago that was saying that Labour were targeting @ 40-odd Tory seats within a 50-60 mile radius of London, needed a 10-15% swing from the Tories. This is nowhere near. The Tories have almost given up on the Northern Wall and have factored that in anyway - but if they can get away with 250+ seat biggest opposition party in 18 months time, they'll bite your hand off. I expect now the Tories will go full-on against PR, raising it as a bogey if Labour have to form a coalition with the Libs, trying to paint Labour into a corner so that they have to make a manifesto commitment that they won't do it: and ironically, that'll be the only way to stop the Tories coming back in @ 2029 in the aftermath of an economic nightmare that Labour (or a coalition) will inherit.
Oh yeah it’s **** up no doubt. I had the Tories at 9/1 so Labour would have been 1/14 or something. ULEZ will have been a big factor and the bloke they’ve elected who sounds like a Millwall fan who smells smoke coming from his wife’s oven will do **** all to stop that then they’ve got little else apart from fake newspapers and shouting “woke”.
It seems to work for them though - as I say, they'll lose an awful lot of what they gained in 2019, but like Hitler retreating on all fronts back in '44, I think they'll be happy if they can back to their natural 250+ seat homelands and avoid a meltdown and split, and put up a big enough scare about PR. That said, I hope the analogy of the Nazis in '44 comes to fruition ...
I do too, and I can see several scenarios whereby it could happen (but probably NOT in the next parliament), but ironically we need a new constitution, not just PR, so that big changes like Brexit (or now rejoining) and, er, PR would need a 2/3rds majority. Square that ****ing circle. I think if you had a whooping majority in the House (100+ at least) you could try to force it more than a scant coalition with a 10-seat majority.
I expect every single Tory MP is ****ting themselves after the Selby and Somerton results Well... those who haven't yet expected their fate and already decided to quit.
