Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister

It's a disingenuous & misleading comparison, which is precisely why the anti-Rishi brigade are pushing that narrative.

It's an appealing soundbite, designed to achieve the reaction that GetCarter has just demonstrated.

A bit of deeper thought by anybody interested in the facts will understand how & why these relative % are what they are.

It is as much misleading as accusing e.g. Amazon of paying a tiny % of tax based on turnover. Everybody knows that tax is charged on profits and not turnover, but some people still make such misleading claims, which others accept without thinking.

Wait they're on 18% now?

fk

This is not one of my parrot specials:
We have an interest in the area and have been rather bemused by some of the coverage and reporting on this one.
Some reports would have you believe it was a stoically conservative seat with history going back yonks. It wasnt
It had been Labour before.for a very long time. Since Blairs landslide it had been Labour with the same MP - Gordon Marsden through to 2019 thats over 20 years. Gordon Marsden was frequently viewed by many as being a bit useless and was parodied for being the MP for a seaside resort as in Brighton (where he lived). We actually found him quite decent and it was interesting how his own views differed in some ways from the Labour councils on certain things

The tory who got it in Boris's landslide had been involved in a cash for question type scandal. He had also been rather disingenuous when dealing with "awkward" constituents. I'm being delicate here but he was getting a reputation for crying victim when people he was supposedly assisting were not getting much help.
He was neither sincere nor honest and we had always thought it would go back to Labour art the earliest opportunity.
The new MP Chris Webb does have the fact he is local going in his favour but he is also a career type politician and was at one point Clive "Grunter" Grunshaws deputy Police commisioner with a job created for him by Clive.
He contested the 2019 election but as a Blackpool North contestant.
Some of us who have interests in the town find it deeply ironic that the Labour led council have spent so much in some areas yet badly neglected others.
A friend of ours has been hampered by the councils decisions on certain things this has unfortunately led to a situation where there is now a game of first to blink regarding an eyesore in the town.
Hopefully Chris Webb may be a good MP but with a council who seem to do whatever they want on a whim, who get rid of their councillors who dare to question the party line I am not too sure he will be. His connections to "Uncle Ivan" do not bode well.
There is also an upcoming boundary change which means that the Blackpool North constituency will move further north and many places that are historically regarded as being in the North of Blackpool such as Layton will now (for electoral purposes) move into the south.

We don't speak ill of the dead.

With several by-elections all delivering 20% plus swings to Lab what would that be in terms of seats in the forthcoming GE?

SD.

Yeah, bound to improve from here

Seriously?

I meant seriously that the headlines later today when more results are in will be "we got it wrong it's not that bad".

Don't see it myself.

Politicians always try to spin it. The best case of this in 1990 when they managed to convince the press that a good night for the Conservatives was winning just two seats.