"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

such a normal party

classic poots

Poots: The lime in the coconut

As Edwin can tell you the world was created in 7 days, but trying to keep this collection of bampots happy is more difficult, so 21 days as leader is maybe not so bad.

Amazing win for the Lib Dems.

Tories there for the taking is it?

General election 2017: Chesham and Amersham

Conservative Cheryl Gillan 33,514 60.7 +1.6
Labour Nina Dluzewska 11,374 20.6 +7.9
Liberal Democrats Peter Jones 7,179 13.0 +4.0
Green Alan Booth 1,660
UKIP David Meacock 1,525

this time Labour finished in 4th place and lost their deposit

I saw people scoffing at piss-diamond accounts for suggesting it was going to be close, which is understandable after 2019. But it looks like they weren't kidding this time. lol when is the last time a Labour candidate lost their deposit?

This is Labour's worst ever result in a by-election. pic.twitter.com/SpUkHFgnUD

— Forward to Victory (@asharchist) June 18, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4Jmv-lXoAMRL_N?format=png&name=small

Did this get much coverage compared to Batley? I didn't even realize there was a by-election in Chesham

Media only interested in proles in flat caps with ferrets who've voted Labour their entire lives voting Tory tbf.

I think the commentariat presumed because the LibDems are led by a diaphanous nothing that even LibDem voters doubt the existence of that they were now incapable of getting Tory protest votes at byelections. Or as Paul Mason would have it: The Progressive Alliance lol!

the new Tory candidate pissed off the locals because they were pro HS2 unlike the previous long serving incumbent Cheryl Gillan

but yes let's pretend a load of protest votes from Tory nimbies is a progressive alliance eh paul 🤡🤡🤡

Starmer is really incredible. He has managed a strategy that appeals to absolutely no one.

It's some kind of achievement.

the party of Graun hacks and property developers

Just to throw this into the ring: afaik, Chesham & Amersham result comes on back of strong campaign against development, esp HS2. Obvs HS2 far from perfect but much of opposition to it far, far worse. Hard to move Britain away from the car without it.

— James B (@piercepenniless) June 18, 2021

Damn what was the last seat to change hands after the incumbent's death?

Nimbyism is a force even Tories can't fuck with

And while this kind of thing in the tweet below is nonsense it does throw up the whole vaccine bounce excuse for Labour's failures in Hartlepool and at council elections.

What we know so far is there is likely not a vaccine bounce in Remain seats, but there may be one in Leave seats. The next by-election can be used to measure further whether that hypothesis is correct

— Charlie Mansell (@charliemansell) June 18, 2021

it's almost like they are commenting on some parallel fantasy world, copium is one hell of a drug.

@jamiemannersRIP @TreborRhurbarb Labour won just 622 votes in the Chesham & Amersham by-election. But every one of those people formed a band.

— Casmilus (@Casmilus) June 18, 2021

Damn what was the last seat to change hands after the incumbent's death?

― nashwan, Friday, 18 June 2021 08:57 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't think its that unusual, particularly when the incumbent was a local "face" and the new candidate doesn't have the same recognition factor.

pic.twitter.com/JYsI2UZol8

— KateMcK (@TheKateMcK) June 17, 2021

The Tory line is I think that this sort of thing happens all the time, incumbents are regularly given a kicking when it's a by-election because the actual government isn't in danger of changing - it serves them well to reframe this as what didn't happen in Hartlepool, because they consider Labour more of a threat than the Lib Dems (though still not much I suspect).

He can't even appeal to the very people he was elected to appeal to.

— epiplexis (@epiplexis_) June 18, 2021

Sort of. Maybe so when he was campaigning to be leader but he hasn't spent any time courting that constituency since. Maybe he thought that not being Corbyn and wearing a suit would be enough. It's clearly not.

I think he thought getting some lukewarm approval from the bbc and the right-wing press would shield him as well, it hasn't and even lots of disengaged people have noticed he's a cunt.

Howard Beckett pulls out of Unite general secretary race and endorses Steve Turner

:-(

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey demolishes a “blue wall” with a small orange hammer to represent his party’s victory in Conservative seat Chesham and Amersham pic.twitter.com/o4tqjhwNZe

— Joseph Cassidy (@josephdcassidy) June 18, 2021

I guess you could just about call that a hammer.

Nice repurposing of signs that used to say "Also here"

Kieth Hammer

is this going to be the start of another lib dem surge news cycle? Guess we haven't had one in a while.

🤔🤔🤔

Obv early days, but there's a possible English future coming into view now: Lib Dems & Greens as parties of the suburbs/commuter towns/hipster enclaves; Tories a coalition of shires & post-industrial towns; Labour the party of cities.

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) June 18, 2021

ha, without fucking fail

Hipster enclaves?

If they exist, aren't they in cities?

siri, show me what fucking clueless looks like

nothing like a single by-election victory to get the sensible centrists talking up sensible centrism! I for one am predicting a Lib Dem general election victory in 2023, followed by Britain's triumphant re-entry to the EU.

does he realy believe this utter shit? I have an awful feeling that he actually does.

Ha ha ha...YES!!!

I am dying https://t.co/SAEDLfUBBp pic.twitter.com/DkaSbxzTBD

— Charlie (@vampiretraums) June 18, 2021

the pernicious spread of Kiethism is nationwide now, it's long since broke free of its shitposting echo chamber origins!

Has he got any supporters though?

I've heard Jenny C will walk through brick walls for him.. and some more

Sharon Graham said: "The announcement of the Turner/Beckett ticket, along with the Gerard Coyne candidacy, now completes the Westminster Brigade. I am the workplace candidate and will be standing to ensure the voice of Unite members is heard."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 18, 2021

Hipster enclaves?

If they exist, aren't they in cities?

― the pinefox, Friday, 18 June 2021 11:51

PF I *think* he means places like St Leonard's / Brighton / Ramsgate / Frome and so on - the kind of places where people complain about "DFLs" and "London refugees"; I *think* that constitutes the green part of his pipe-dream.

I don't think he knows what he's on about.

🚨 BATLEY AND SPEN 🚨

Lip readers have observed Sir Keir Starmer refer to Batley as "a complete shithole" and that the locals are "gravy drinking idiots" during meal with Labour candidate Kim Leadbeater. pic.twitter.com/EioDsfhz2t

— Politics For Everyone (@Pols4Everyone) June 18, 2021

Angela Rayner spoke against fire & rehire with Jeremy Corbyn.

When she came under the slightest pressure for doing so, she claimed via a source that "Corbyn photobombed her" "unnoticed" & she "did not talk to him".

Here's a video of Corbyn's photobombing technique. pic.twitter.com/XR1KZUGIJH

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) June 18, 2021

if I was an unscrupulous liar I'd simply make my lies a little bit more convincing

what catches my attention there is more that she's confident enough the current leadership is toast to even do this in the first place

Kieth will be furious that from that vid you can work out from previous pics with Rayner that he's 5"6