THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

The outlier in Blackpool's low turnout no-one is really talking about is that a lot of people won't have been motivated to vote for a new MP who will only be there for 6 months tops. So many people will have seen it as a waste of time as they get to vote again for the proper election shortly.
For example Brecon and Radnorshire was the last by election prior to the 2019 general election and it had a turnout of 59.7% but in the GE it was 74.5%

I agree but if you look at any of the other by-election's since Sunak came to power, it is the same story. The Tory voters have stayed away rather than switch parties.

Probably for the best if Labour just give up now and accept the fact that no one's voting them.

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Tories are in for a complete hiding at the election whenever it happens, with the likes of Mordaunt, Shapps, Gove, Hunt, Cleverly in danger of losing their seats, they will be decimated.

All this talk of a hung parliament is just Conservative wishful thinking, it’s not going to happen, come polling day the people will vote in their droves and very few voting blue

Christ, I hope so.

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

Nobody said that either.

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It's Pete's train set, and we should all feel honoured to be granted the privilege of paying to play with it.

"Shut the fuck up, you sausage!"

Doesn't matter. The Mail have declared old Kier's party more or less irrelevant this morning, with our biggest threat to democracy (The Conservative Party) now being The Greens and pro-Gaza independents.

Oh well. It was nice while it lasted. A man can dream.

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It rained in Crawley last night and they are labour......

The irony being that by publishing the headline 'enemies of the people' (back in 2016 I think) when the government acted illegally and were told that by the supreme court , The Mail was subverting the rule of law on which democracy is based. I think 'visceral loathing' sums up my opinion of that pile of do do.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

They don't care. Almost their entire online version this morning is dedicated to last night's met gala. Indeed their lead story is the size of Kim Kardashian's waist. In the midst on the continuing shit show that is Netanyahu's basically genocidal war, they would have you believe that come the next election, the Tories will win, folk are interested in the size if some reality telly star, and that no one voted for Labour last Thursday.

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