Labour Lose Seat In Style
Discussion
Jaglover said:
It signifies little, classic protest vote going to the Lib Dems.
i would agree usually, but the scale of this one is a bit big. i mean - 12,000 votes down on one night is a mighty big protest vote. i can imagine a large proportion being a protest vote - eg 60-70% - but not the remaining part. its not often a labour stronghold gets pasted like this either.
ds to go tinman0 said:It's the scale of the drubbing and how closely it follows a general election that's significant. Perhaps the population are finally waking from their slumber.
It signifies little, classic protest vote going to the Lib Dems.
i would agree usually, but the scale of this one is a bit big. i mean - 12,000 votes down on one night is a mighty big protest vote. i can imagine a large proportion being a protest vote - eg 60-70% - but not the remaining part. its not often a labour stronghold gets pasted like this either.
As I've said before, simply getting the Labour trash out is good enough : a vote of no-confidence. So we let another shower in: we KNOW they're ALL a shower; at least we're denying the current morons another stab at it for a few years and who knows, maybe by then some of the armchair politians on here might have decided to put their money where their mouth is and formed a new party that gives a shit.
BliarOut said:
It signifies little, classic protest vote going to the Lib Dems.
i would agree usually, but the scale of this one is a bit big. i mean - 12,000 votes down on one night is a mighty big protest vote. i can imagine a large proportion being a protest vote - eg 60-70% - but not the remaining part. its not often a labour stronghold gets pasted like this either.
Difficult to read a general election into that one as quite astonishingly the Tories were actually down 2.51%!! Local populace trying to beat Blair with a very big stick. Or perhaps show their support for drinking scotch.
>> Edited by Dave D on Friday 10th February 14:40
Pehaps they are worried that a serious kicking will fatally wound them in the eyes of the media and the general public. God I hope so.
T5-R said:
It was rather amusing listening to Alistair Darling get a roasting on Radio 4 this morning about this. What's even funnier is it's the constituency where Gordon Brown lives.
They kept saying the result was 'despite Gordon Brown's involvement in the election'. It didn't seem to occur to them that it might be <i>because of</i> his involvement.
BliarOut said:
Please re-arrange;
Pan Is Cameron In Flash A
History Blair Is
Brown Brown In Stuff The IS
I tell ya' not only do we win, we are now obviously the only serious sex and drugs and rock and roll party!
No most swing both ways
(men & boys
) 
john75 said:
Reading to much into bye elections is a mugs game also it only seems to be at Bye Elections that the Liberals ever win seats.
Errr... check your maths, 1987 Alliance 27 seats, 2005 Lib Dems 62 seats, that's a gain over 4 elections of 35 seats, about nine gains per election on average, slow but persistent. Remember with our ridiculous electoral system there comes a take off point at about 30-32% of the votes, when suddenly you get lots of seats for a few points gained in the overall poll, and as the Tories have teetered periously close to falling through that trap door you would think they might have re-investigated Chris Patten's interest in Proportional Representation
>> Edited by CiderwithCerbie on Friday 10th February 17:25
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