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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 21, 2016, 09:47:47 PM

Title: Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 21, 2016, 09:47:47 PM
Ok it is deliberately provocative, but some of us ain't had too much to cheer over the past few years.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/21/labour-tracy-brabin-batley-and-spen-byelection-witney-robert-court

(I did toy with the idea of a thread about "Who would ever have thought that a Tracy would be an MP?", but thought better of it).
Title: Re: Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections
Post by: L.A. on October 22, 2016, 08:50:57 AM
It's not often I find reason to celibate the election of a Labour candidate but this is an exception.
Title: Re: Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections
Post by: Aruntraveller on October 22, 2016, 09:10:06 AM
Quote from: L.A. on October 22, 2016, 08:50:57 AM
It's not often I find reason to celibate the election of a Labour candidate but this is an exception.

I'm sure that's not right.  ;)

Some kind of Freudian mishap??
Title: Re: Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on October 22, 2016, 09:54:57 AM
Quote from: L.A. on October 22, 2016, 08:50:57 AM
It's not often I find reason to celibate the election of a Labour candidate but this is an exception.
What happened in Witters then? Tory majority well down.
Title: Re: Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections
Post by: L.A. on October 22, 2016, 10:21:29 AM
Quote from: I can't believe it's not Vlad. on October 22, 2016, 09:54:57 AM
What happened in Witters then? Tory majority well down.

Actually, I find that result quite pleasing. It keeps the government under pressure and suggests that the LibDems might be filling the vacuum left by Labour.
Title: Re: Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections
Post by: jeremyp on October 23, 2016, 11:35:05 AM
Quote from: I can't believe it's not Vlad. on October 22, 2016, 09:54:57 AM
What happened in Witters then? Tory majority well down.
Not surprisingly and Lib Dems well up, perhaps more surprisingly, although if you were registering a protest vote in DC's old constituency, you probably wouldn't vote for Labour.