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    the next election- or when will we be rid of this rotten band of crooks ?

    Can't find the latest thread, but maybe it's time for another one compiling portents, hopes, shenanigans about the successor to Theresa May,

    Tonight

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/971894222231166978

    #2
    or

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/971891803510202368

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      #3
      Sure, just a blip, will say the Sages.

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        #4
        Then London isn’t Britain (England) when the Tories get walked over and set on fire in the Imperial Capital elections in the spring.

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          #5
          The problem is that 40% of the active Brit electorate seem permanently politically retarded.
          A certain event in 2016 being a case in point.

          Perhaps we need to wait for a few more to die...

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            #6
            That Northchurch ward is next to mine, and has been Tory since at least 1979.

            Yesterday's result is a huge swing in a ward which covers quite a bit of rural Dacorum, it's not just commuters. Suspect that the usual voting bloc of comfortably-off pensioners didn't turn out for the Conservatives on this occasion.

            The next sweep of local elections in May will be very interesting indeed.

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              #7
              One more for the collection

              https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/971902921855131649

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                #8
                The Greens won a formerly Tory seat on Oswestry Town Council last night, claiming 44% of the vote. Oswestry Town Council now has 6 Greens and the Tories are down to 8, with 4 others.

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                  #9
                  I'm very wary of reading too much into local government by-elections; there's all sorts of other circumstances surrounding them - the reason why there actually had to be a by-election often being a big variable. There's been some not-so-great Labour by-election performances lately too.

                  But yeah, we should all be getting out there to smash these fuckers out of power.

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                    #10
                    That Wollaton West vote looks like a triumph of tactical voting, doesn't it?

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                      #11
                      Especially as about 10% of the vote appears to have come from nowhere, according to the figures is brackets.

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                        #12
                        I'd have a guess at UKIP dropping out

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                          #13
                          The old Scottish Football Question coming to the fore in Wollaton West: "Aye, Greenock Morton/Green Party, right. But who do you really support?

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                            #14
                            Well done to Etienne and the Shropshire Greens.

                            In other electoral news, Sinn Fein have sent their NI big-hitters to the Kremlin. It's a gay nightclub in Belfast- the sisterhood need to soothe the pink vote after forgetting their equal marriage promises during recent talks

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                              #15
                              Surely that's yer auld mates, the DUPers...

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                                #16
                                Plus in mainland Britain, bar 2-3 Parliamentary seats, the Greens are an irrelevance.
                                Not that it's vastly better in Ireland, with only them, PBP & SF offering even anything vaguely 'progressive'.

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                                  #17
                                  I can't claim any credit, DG. Shamefully lax on the campaigning front.

                                  Gonzo, while our stupid electoral system does hinder the Greens in many ways, I think that Oswestry (among other areas) shows that the Greens can beat the Tories in seats which Labour could never win. These are often a role that the Lib Dems played, but the Green candidates are likely to be more progressive than them (not in every case, I concede).

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Etienne View Post
                                    The Greens won a formerly Tory seat on Oswestry Town Council last night, claiming 44% of the vote. Oswestry Town Council now has 6 Greens and the Tories are down to 8, with 4 others.
                                    Blud'yell mon! Oswestry's changed since the '70s, anner?

                                    Good work, though. (To whoever actually did the campaigning. Smiley face.)

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                                      #19
                                      Seats where Green vote greater than winning majority, 2017

                                      Brighton Pavilion
                                      Glasgow North
                                      Kensington
                                      Canterbury
                                      Chipping Barnet
                                      Southampton Itchen
                                      Stroud
                                      Ceredigion
                                      Keighley
                                      Norwich North
                                      Dudley North
                                      Peterborough
                                      Bedford
                                      Telford
                                      Barrow and Furness
                                      Edinburgh North and Leith
                                      Calder Valley
                                      Ipswich

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                                        #20
                                        ChrisJ, it's odd really. The rest of North Shropshire seems as dyed in the wool blue as ever (every single town councilor in Market Drayton for instance is a Tory) and Oswestry demographically doesn't seem that different, but it does seem to have a bit of a burgeoning bohemian population. I think the appeal of the Greens is for hard-working responsive councilors rather than a groundswell of support for Universal Basic Income or anything similar. Don't think Owen Paterson is going to be getting worried yet, given the Tories have won every single election in Shropshire North.

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                                          #21
                                          Yeah, Oswestry's always been a funny place. My last impressions were that it was shifting from working-class tory to middle-class tory, but that was a loooong time ago; maybe the kids I knew in the early 80s are the local opinion-formers now?

                                          Is it analogous, perhaps to Stroud in Glos? A little dot of progression in a sea of blue. 'Course Stroud's big enough to have it's own MP while Oswestry's still overwhelmed by the blue surrounds. If Paterson gets turned over, the revolution's started.

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                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
                                            Seats where Green vote greater than winning majority, 2017

                                            Brighton Pavilion
                                            Glasgow North
                                            Kensington
                                            Canterbury
                                            Chipping Barnet
                                            Southampton Itchen
                                            Stroud
                                            Ceredigion
                                            Keighley
                                            Norwich North
                                            Dudley North
                                            Peterborough
                                            Bedford
                                            Telford
                                            Barrow and Furness
                                            Edinburgh North and Leith
                                            Calder Valley
                                            Ipswich

                                            So what?

                                            BNP vote greater than the winning majority, 2010

                                            Sheffield Central

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                                              #23
                                              1 seat- big deal

                                              20 seats- bigger deal

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
                                                1 seat- big deal

                                                20 seats- bigger deal

                                                Ok.

                                                That's a fair cop guv'. Bang to rights.

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                                                  #25
                                                  That's not going to happen again next time is it?

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