Who will win, Copeland by-election, 2017

[Halb]

NinjaPower said:

He won't listen to anyone, .

He listens to partymembers.

---

A solid victory for Torys there. Not the squeak that a lot were expecting.
Popular vote Con 13,748/44.2% Lab 11,601/37.3%

edit, after listening to the mad prof and looking at the facts, seems it was the brexiters brexiting from UKiPs that was the major factor.

Edited by Halb on Friday 24th February 12:05

[Norfolkit]

Robertj21a said:

Unfortunately, for the Tories, it's a bit of a double-edged sword. They get a decisive win, but it only adds weight to the Labour arguments that Corbyn has to go, I'm sure the Tories would much rather he stayed !

AN commented on This Week that it was probably the perfect result for the Tories, win Copeland to show you can win in traditional Labour areas and increase the HoC majority by a couple. A win in Stoke at the same time could have triggered a Labour leadership challenge and the Tories don't want that.

[BlackLabel]

Apparantly this is all Blair and Brown's fault.

twitter said:

Ken Loach‏ @KenLoachSixteen

KL* The loss of Copeland was the fault of the years of Blair, Brown and their apologists in the PLP.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KenLoachSixteen/status/835079895806054401

[Murph7355]

Norfolkit said:

AN commented on This Week that it was probably the perfect result for the Tories, win Copeland to show you can win in traditional Labour areas and increase the HoC majority by a couple. A win in Stoke at the same time could have triggered a Labour leadership challenge and the Tories don't want that.

AN is about the only media person worth listening to on politics. No blatant bias that I'm aware of (which could just because I tend to agree with him more than not!), just logical questioning and challenge.

[Halb]

Listend to the speech now, she's clearly not a speaker. I thought she'd be pretty bad on This Week too but she wasn't as bad as I thought after a weak start.

As for the talking heads; the LDer was awful, the UKiPs guy was weak, the Tory bod was not bad,a nd the Labour bloke seemed to be really quite good, more pragmatic and less of the partisan bullst that current MPs normally have. The LDer spouted so much bullst I'm surprised they did have a horse cart next to her.

[BlackLabel]

"Labour frontbencher Shami Chakrabarti ridiculed after blaming almost everything except Jeremy Corbyn for Copeland defeat

The Labour Baroness blamed bad weather, the media, disunity and Labour voters not having cars"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labo...

[Gogoplata]

Leftie favourite Jonathan Pie is shared a lot on social media today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1cCgOwMeQs&fe...

Head firmly in sand

[Smiler.]

Gogoplata said:

Leftie favourite Jonathan Pie is shared a lot on social media today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1cCgOwMeQs&fe...

Head firmly in sand

Rosie-fking-Winter-tits



Still, "nasty Tories dismantling the NHS, leaving child refugees to die & forcing Pensioners to work."

Usual Lefticle bile content: 100%

Is he banging Lilly Allen?