No, it was about being in a position to take out continuity Corbynism when the time came. What choice did he have? Those outspokenly denouncing Corbyn from the outside were never going to have been i… (View Post)

OT. The 2nd preferences of LD voters shown in the thread don't in my view amount to very much. They are representative of a specific situation of a year ago where: 1. The Conservatives were significa… (View Post)

If we simply aggregate the votes cast in the two seats last night, the Conservatives still came out on top with 24,500+ votes, followed by the LDs and Lab. The Conservatives were the only party not t… (View Post)

There wasn't any scope for a tactical vote surge in Wakefield because it was mathematically impossible for there to be one of any significance. That's because the LDs scored a puny 3.9% of the vote i… (View Post)

Parliamentary by-election gains for Labour have been rare beasts. The last three have taken between them 25 years - Wirral South (1997), Corby (2012) and now Wakefield. It is a significant recovery a… (View Post)