There is an unspoken reality about this by-election that Labour think people are too stupid to spot. During the campaign, Labour sent half the Shadow Cabinet, various famous Labour Lords and other people up to knock on doors to get the Labour vote out. That will not happen at the next General Election, so Mr Shanks will probably be handing the seat back to the incompetent SNP. The only way that Labour is going to win big in Scotland is if the borderline independence voters wake up to the total pointlessness of the SNP at Westminster and decide to go back to the incompetent Labour Party for which they used to vote. Scotland will still be run by the SNP MSPs at Holyrood but the United Kingdom that they want to leave will be run by Labour not the Conservatives.
Gutless carries on his fantasy about self proclamations I'm alleged to have made (despite never having done so) yet avoids adding some of his own considered detail to tory link he's relied on so much. Probably the wisest thing the ****wit has ever done.
It's a lovely day here in Portsmouth, I think I'll go down to Gunwharf quays. There's a Haribo shop down there now.
You're actually putting this down to Tories voting for Labour? Hysterical. On a 66% turnout in 2019 the Tories got @8000 votes. On a 37% turnout, they got 1.1k. So @ 7k of Tory voters, on a 30% reduced vote, turned out and boosted the Labour vote by 7K? Labour's share of the vote went up @ 20% thanks to Tories rolling up and giving them 7k votes? What total ****ery. John Curtice just turned in his grave (can't be long now by the kip of him).
I disagree re Curtice. He's got the look of one of those old academics who live on the whiff of a lettuce leaf and the occasional glass of water. Probably get a telegram from King Willy in about thirty years time. As regards the voting though you are spot on. Tories won't vote Labour in any numbers. That's why it would have made sense not to fight too hard in Mid Beds it may let the Tories off the hook. Then we will get the Tory revival story from the client journos.
Farage to lead the Conservative party ? I would vote for him just for the pop corn & screeching from the lefty remainer triggered community
That would be two Tory votes in a row which is quite a lot for an edgy non-conformist who hates the Tories.
I would vote for Labour again if Corbyn was in charge instead of Sir Rodney. Making it 2-1 . Neither is likely to happen so i won't be doing either.
