Lib Dem vote surges as nutters humiliated in byelections

[Humph Warden Bennett]

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).

[L.A.]

It's not often I find reason to celibate the election of a Labour candidate but this is an exception.

[Aruntraveller]

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??

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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.

[L.A.]

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.

[jeremyp]

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.