The By-elections Thread - 2019-2024 edition

[VoR]

They’ve done the double!

 

[VoR]

 

[AlgoAlex]

Ooh what fabulous news to wake up to

 

[Lucille]

LOL

 

[ButterTart]

Tamworth is just down the road from me. Can confirm that if the Tories can lose that then there's literally no such things as a safe Tory seat anymore

 

[octophone]

I actually laughed when I saw they'd lost both seats. Tamworth's gone? They're FUCKED.

 

[octophone]

I mean, obviously Dorries was an embarrassment and Pincher was a sex pest but the Conservatives have won seats where the candidate was both of these things so...

 

[octophone]

"It was a stunningly bad night for the Conservative Party. Historically bad.

If replicated at a general election, results like last night’s wouldn’t just mean Conservative defeat - they would mean Conservative annihilation".

 

[big ron]

 

[Sheena]

This has perked up my Friday NO END

 

[VoR]

Cancelling all my Onlyfans subscriptions. This is all I’m going to need for a good while.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

 

[Tisch]

The top video makes it look like it was his team who ushered him away, but the second video shows his FLOUNCING off in all its glory

 

[Tisch]

The poor man though. His wife is so RELATEABLE.

 

[Indie]

What a glorious night.

Clearly they're both relatively marginal now and I wouldn't be surprised if they switch back on a GE scenario, but it is fantastic. If Rishi took the Uxbridge result to declare a war on meat taxes and ULEZ, what on earth will he take from this?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Tamworth, the second highest swing in post war by-election history and Mid Beds the sixth. Quite the stat.

He sounds like a prize shit mind.

 

[Shoat]

If Rishi took the Uxbridge result to declare a war on meat taxes and ULEZ, what on earth will be take from this?

Have Nadine Dorries boiled down into pate

Declare a culture war and a ban on red-haired men

 

[octophone]

tHe WoKeRaTi hAvE iNvAdEd tAmWoRth!!!! BAN TOFU! BAN PANTOMIME DAMES!! INVADE LIVERPOOL!!!

 

[lolly]

 

[octophone]

Looking forward to getting home from work so I can read all these Tweets!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The Tory majority has shrunk by 21 since 2019. That, I think are about the same numbers John Major lost, albeit under a much smaller majority.

The key difference, IIRC was most of the pre-1997 changes were due to deaths and defections. The pre-2024 lot are mostly down to explusions.

One reading is that the pre 1997 MPs were older and more principled. The pre 2024 lot are younger careerists and more corrupt (or at least unable to get away with it).

 

[funky]

Interestingly those kind of swings are echoing the crazy polling we all saw when Rishi took over and thought was probably too good to be true. Turns out to be true!

What I love about it is the rejection of Tory mentality - him doing that Poor Parents Fuck Off tweet and then losing a massively safe seat is so symbolic of the state of the party and shows they STILL don’t have a fucking clue how angry people are and how out of touch they are. It’s this continued ignorance and delusion that gives me hope that this momentum really can continue into the GE…

 

[VoR]

Likely another by-election coming down the line in Wellingborough too (Peter Bone's seat), so the humiliations probably aren't over yet...

 

[PercyPig]

All hypothetical and stuff but what happens to the right-wing shit rags with a result like this? They really would be going against the grain with their "style" of reporting or will they just ramp up the culture wars even more?

 

[lolly]

Is that not a single Tory west of me? Glorious.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk to FUCK OFF

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Likely another by-election coming down the line in Wellingborough too (Peter Bone's seat), so the humiliations probably aren't over yet...

And Blackpool South

 

[Madison]

And yet somehow Sir Gavin Williamson survives with not a single Tory within 100 miles of him.

 

[big ron]

All hypothetical and stuff but what happens to the right-wing shit rags with a result like this? They really would be going against the grain with their "style" of reporting or will they just ramp up the culture wars even more?

God knows. Dont forget the Sun endorsed Blair as soon as they sensed the wind was changing to appear as is if they remained the kingmakers.

 

[ILL ADVISED]

The new bbc chief political correspondent is pretty hot

 

[win_the_game]

Didn't he previously work for that Tory rag The Times?

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Didn't he previously work for that Tory rag The Times?

Oh probably

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The Times is hardly the WORST.

 

[Lucille]

It’s quite hard to work at a newspaper that ISN’T Tory.

 

[Jocasta Clun]

Back off of HENRY ZEFFS he's MINE! I baggsed him WAY BACK WHEN he use to be on the PAPERS on the NEWS CHANNEL when they still used to get them into the STUDIO

 

[octophone]

The Times is hardly the WORST.

Only because The Telegraph and The D**** M*** won't fuck off and die.

 

[octophone]

I would rank THE SNU above The Times and we all know how I feel about THEM.

 

[ILL ADVISED]

 

[ILL ADVISED]

should be an easy Labour win

 

[jivafox]

Oh yes please, he’s an absolute cunt!