Excellent News

[gulliver1]

"Whoo - hoo" ....Tories lose two By-elections, and hang on to the third by the skin of their teeth . Britain is waking up to the fact that they need a change and it's time to kick the the Tories out using both feet. Get Rid.

[youngmafbog]

1) you clearly know nothing about bye elections.

2) Why didnt your beloved Labour romp home with all three?

[andy-hughes]

By-elections are notoriously used as a barometer of the way the electorate would vote in a General Election.

History shows that they rarely predict GE results accurately, since the two are markedly different.

I see the election being similar to that last to American elections - the voters sadly do not have a choice about who they would like - which is none of the candidates, and they end up with the one they actually dislike the least.

[gulliver1]

Oh dear I seem to have touched a raw nerve with YMB
...Sorry.

[youngmafbog]

Eh? I asked you a simple question.

If you bothered to read any of my posts you would know I dislike the current Government who I do not regard as Tories but Tinos (New Labour 2).

[gulliver1]

The Tory party have been dealt two massive Painful Wounds at these By-elections ............Good for them.

[Bobbisox1]

Yet they hold Uxbridge and Ruislip ,funny that…innit

[Old_Geezer]

They were expected to lose. It's a protest vote as much as anything, protest against a party determined to do everything seemingly wrong. To have held one seat is more of a indication of things than losing just the two. Clearly Frome couldn't stomach voting Labour, and Yorkshire didn't fancy the anti-democracy woke non-libs.

[gulliver1]

What a comeuppance for the Tories just about hanging on to Uxbridge by the skin of their teeth.

[Bobbisox1]

But they won it :0)))

[ichkeria]

“Why didnt your beloved Labour romp home with all three?”

I’ll answer that, as someone ought to: Somerton and Frome was a Lib Dem seat for 18 years up to 2018. Labour have no real base there.
It seems Uxbridge was rescued because of an unpopular green tax. I’m
Not sure how much comfort the Tories can take from that but it makes for a slightly better headline

[Bobbisox1]

A win is a win ich , if you read Gullivers previous thousands of posts on how they’d sweep the board,Labour were going to romp home :0)))

[Zacs-Master]

The Selby & Ainsty 23.7% swing to Labour from Con’ is clearly a protest vote. There’s no way a 25 year old has the life experience to be an effective MP.

[naomi24]

I think TTT has it more accurately on the other thread with the same title. Labour won only one out of three - and for a party with such high aspirations, that speaks volumes.

[gulliver1]

Can't wait to hear what Beth Rigby has to say about these disastrous results that the Tories have achieved.

[ichkeria]

“ A win is a win ich , if you read Gullivers previous thousands of posts on how they’d sweep the board,Labour were going to romp home :0)))”

What gulliver thinks doesn’t interest me: he’s just a windup merchant. But it is interesting occasionally to delve a little more deeply

[ichkeria]

“a 25 year old has the life experience to be an effective MP”

A pity to see you banging that drum.
There have been older PMs

[ichkeria]

Younger PMs!!!

[gulliver1]

.................As Winston would have said................
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end but it is ,perhaps the end of the Tory Party for a couple of decades. Ha ha.

[gulliver1]

Will this very young new Labour MP , do a Tony Blair job on the UK And become a very young Prime minister eventually.. hope so I really do.

[gulliver1]

Why did the Uxbridge result need a recount ?
Was there evidence of some sort of Tory cheating ?