Who will win, Copeland by-election, 2017

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Who will win, Copeland by-election, 2017

Labour - 16,750 - 42.3% - −3.7 swing
Conservative - 14,186 - 35.8% - −1.3 swing
UKIP - 6,148 - 15.5% - +13.2 swing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copeland_by-election...

Now that was close back in 2015!!

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Most UK seats are rotten boroughs'safe' seats, but these are interesting times.

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Tezze thinks she may be in with a bit of a shout.

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Just seen the main candidates on the DP, what a bunch of deadheads, Tory was the worst. Labour one came across as not bad. UKiPs was OK too. Don't see the LD one doing well, but I'll be rather interested to see the only anti-nuclear candidate, the Green, how he does.

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1%, so at least one person did?

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BlackLabel said:

Labour have run this by-election campaign as a referendum on the NHS - let's see if it works.

After keeping up to date with this on the DP...it's got a swinging chance...

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There were favourable mutterings on QT, though I'm not sure if it was Stoke or Copeland.

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hidetheelephants said:

Remarkable; history made in Copeland. Terrible victory speech mind.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Friday 24th February 02:56

Not heard it yet, but she came across as a right balloon in the lead up to the election. She reminded me of David Brent/Michel Scott.

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NinjaPower said:

He won't listen to anyone, .

He listens to partymembers.

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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

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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.