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#701 |
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His vote stayed roughly the same, that is a fact. (minus 2000 odd votes)
The Lib Dems gain a massive amount of votes from the other parties. The Majority is over the 2nd place party. NOT all the other parties put together.. |
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#702 |
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The Liberal, and Corbyn , position is untenable, democratically, and politically. You can't, now, tell over half the electorate to shut up, and not mention immigration , as its good for them.
And polls indicate a majority are with me. It is highly likely, if the EU is as hardball as I think it's going to be, that we will be left precisely with that binary choice. And why we absolutely should have a vote on it. |
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I see Anna Soubry has been congratulating the winner - does anyone know what her constituency voted in the EU referendum.
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His vote stayed roughly the same, that is a fact. (minus 2000 odd votes)
The Lib Dems gain a massive amount of votes from the other parties. The Majority is over the 2nd place party. NOT all the other parties put together.. You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on the arse. |
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#705 |
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I see Anna Soubry has been congratulating the winner - does anyone know what her constituency voted in the EU referendum.
http://www.broxtowe.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=15396 One of the few places I am hoping for a Labour gain in 2020. |
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#706 |
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Labour wanted Zac beaten.
Job done. So much for Zac being popular eh? |
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Your idea of a fact is actually total fiction. It wasn't 2000 less by a mile.
You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on the arse. I was working with the wrong figures. I now know it was 15,000 less than last election. |
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#708 |
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Leave. And then she proceeded to call her own constituents bigots for doing so, p
http://www.broxtowe.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=15396 One of the few places I am hoping for a Labour gain in 2020. |
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The total of Labur's vote was not enough to have decided the result, do the maths.
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#710 |
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I think "sensible" Tories are starting to wake up and realise that there is a battle for the future of the country which needs winning. With Labour seemingly out to lunch, someone has to stand up to the Tory Nutters and the Kippers.
I was talking to a colleague at work today who said that he had been a Tory party member since he was a student but had decided to join the Lib Dems. The result in Richmond is going to make a lot of Tory Leavers in supposedly safe seats feel nervous. I don't think we'll be seeing any of them resigning "on principle" any time soon. |
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#711 |
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You can spin it all you like. It wouldn't be repeated in many constituencies, but in some it certainly would. Why did they do so well in Witney? The LD's need to get organising around here. The sitting lefty MP is a Brexiter, and who's constituency straddles two boroughs. One was 59/41 Remain, and the other 55/45. And the bit in his would have been higher, no question..
Tory sitting MPs are now at stake where they're defending slim majorities in areas with 'remain' or 'hard Brexit' majorities. |
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I thought though that the populist right is all about smashing the elites and the establishment. It seems Ms Olney is being ridiculed for not being a career politician or knowing how to play the media game.
Miss Olney was quizzed on what she has said and how that compares to her own victory. I would have thought that was fair game. Any ridicule was of her own making and since JHB was articulating the questions from the majority of the voting electorate that seems a reasonable stance. |
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My point would be that May seems to be thinking she has no choice but to take the UK out of the Single Market in order to appease the "hardline" British public. If these trends were to continue at future by-elections, she may have to start reassessing things.
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You are ignoring Labour voters who went Lib this time.
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Smashing the elite? I have never said that. It is about ensuring the 'elite' do not rule in an undemocratic fashion as they have done with regards the EU for over 20 years.
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I see Anna Soubry has been congratulating the winner - does anyone know what her constituency voted in the EU referendum.
http://www.broxtowe.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=15396 To Leave ![]() Not by a big margin but who cares a win is a win ![]() You only have to score 1 goal and if the other team don't score anything you've won
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Yep, I thought Labour losing their deposit was almost as big a story as the size of the swing from Tory back to Lib Dem.
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#718 |
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rolleyes
I was working with the wrong figures. I now know it was 15,000 less than last election. |
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Keep on. You're just proving the backward delusion of Brexiters. You can't cope with something that changed 50 years ago.
I suppose you think the residents of Milton Keynes live in one large field. And on the subject of addresses I just popped "car sales romford" into google: http://www.chariotsofromford.co.uk/ http://www.cms-carsales-ltd.co.uk/ https://plus.google.com/105659792085658247380/posts ![]() ![]()
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#720 |
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Many of the areas in the north that voted Brexit in large numbers are also unaffected by immigration.
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Keep on. You're just proving the backward delusion of Brexiters. You can't cope with something that changed 50 years ago.
I suppose you think the residents of Milton Keynes live in one large field. |
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#722 |
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Translation: It's about the "elite" being on my side.
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The nice thing about those times is there were aspirations that the world would become a better place, that Britain would become a better place. So disappointing.
And on the subject of addresses I just popped "car sales romford" into google: http://www.chariotsofromford.co.uk/ http://www.cms-carsales-ltd.co.uk/ https://plus.google.com/105659792085658247380/posts ![]() ![]() ![]() They think if they make enough laws and have enough CCTV it will all be alright no personal discipline or responsibility needed. |
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#724 |
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Richmond upon Thames isn't up north and is nothing like most of 'up north'.
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#725 |
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Nah, it was several fields that weren't in Milton Keynes, which was a luvvly little vilage.
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