Trending Con for two decades. Despite the drama of the night it's to be expected.
Trending in general elections, perhaps. Do those tend to continue towards governing parties in by elections? And it really hasn't been that long, demographically speaking, since the 2015 election.
Fantastic night for Theresa May, Tories gain Copeland by a clear margin making her the first PM since Thatcher at the height of the Falklands to gain a seat in a by election from an opposition party and almost pip UKIP for second in Stoke but the fact Labour held the latter should keep be enough to still keep Corbyn in place. She now has the renewed mandate she needs to trigger Article 50 next month
Fantastic night for Theresa May, Tories gain Copeland by a clear margin making her the first PM since Thatcher at the height of the Falklands to gain a seat in a by election from an opposition party and almost pip UKIP for second in Stoke but the fact Labour held the latter should keep be enough to still keep Corbyn in place. She now has the renewed mandate she needs to trigger Article 50 next month
Fantastic night for Theresa May, Tories gain Copeland by a clear margin and almost pip UKIP for second in Stoke but the fact Labour held the latter should keep be enough to still keep Corbyn in place
I'm not sure, a whole lot more Labour MPs will realise their seats are in danger. Bolsover, Derby South, Bassetlaw, Birmingham Selly Oak all in danger imo. Heck even Stoke Central.
Is it just me or is the BBC's current headline "Mixed by-election fortunes." wholly inappropriate given how unprecedented it is?
News just in, Neil already describing it as historic.
Quite right, they've fixed it. Just seems odd they changed to that as a stepping-stone... you'd think they'd have prepared splashes for all outcomes, but hey ho.
Is it just me or is the BBC's current headline "Mixed by-election fortunes." wholly inappropriate given how unprecedented it is?
News just in, Neil already describing it as historic.
Quite right, they've fixed it. Just seems odd they changed to that as a stepping-stone... you'd think they'd have prepared splashes for all outcomes, but hey ho.
Ah, didn't mean to sound super sarcastic there, meant that the news had just broken. You're right that they should have planned for each eventuality.
Yes, genuinely a good Tory win there. To quite a large extent it's the collapse of the UKIP vote that delivered it - a side-effect of UKIP's concentation on Stoke. Conversely, Labour's slide is partly related to the modest LibDem revival - though it has to be said that the much-heralded Sunderland-style breakthrough didn't happen in either place, and the LibDems really need anothe by-election where they're the main challenger.
Fantastic night for Theresa May, Tories gain Copeland by a clear margin making her the first PM since Thatcher at the height of the Falklands to gain a seat in a by election from an opposition party and almost pip UKIP for second in Stoke but the fact Labour held the latter should keep be enough to still keep Corbyn in place. She now has the renewed mandate she needs to trigger Article 50 next month
Copeland was just a flesh wound
Cameron's comparison of Corbyn to one of the Knights in Monty Python is looking apt
The difficulty for the centre-left is illustrated by the fact that even if we assume that EVERY LibDem voter would have been a Labour voter if we'd had a centrist leader (which clearly isn't the case),and that every Labour voter would have stayed on board, we';d still have lost. The sober fact is that the Tories are reasonably popular at the moment, and that's a problem for Corbyn but would also br a problem for any other Labour leader.
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She should be keen on them as good for Con in Cumbria.
Jezza could be on his way out now...
And then I went and spoiled it all by backing labour.
The 9/4 wasn't value. It was a poor bet.
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