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

A tactical vote for the opposition against another opposition!

if there is no option to vote for transformative politics the only other option is to vote for lols

at least I should have said it's another option, not voting is the other one!

The prospect of panicky scared shitless spineless Tory MPs turning on Boris is the only reason to vote Lib Dem - I wouldn't do it myself, of course. The Tories will win it back easily at the next election anyway.

I wouldn't vote Lib Dem that is!

i would simply write crude unhelpful abuse across my paper

"a buttery flavour with hints of burnt caramel, nuttiness and tangy blue"

this is Shropshire Blue, the early indications are Kieth is a going down more like a Kraft slice with the voters who tbf gave Corbyn two 2nd place results just as comparably respectable as what Blair achieved, but with a manifesto that was worth voting for.

why would you tell people nightclubs are going to close with 11 days notice. are you completely off your fucking noodle. https://t.co/sVzoQJSVNL

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) December 16, 2021

Because it's "Save Christmas"

Save Xmas, destroy new year.

Quite

Robbing nicholas to pay stephen

awooga! https://t.co/TO6zFUIseY

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) December 17, 2021

Labour Party Results in North Shropshire Constituency:

2010 (Gordon Brown) - 18.1%
2015 (Ed Miliband) - 19.9%
2017 (Jeremy Corbyn) - 31.1%
2019 (Jeremy Corbyn) - 22.1%
2021 (Keir Starmer) - 9.6%

— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) December 17, 2021

Kieth's at the wheel

I don’t think we can really judge that considering there will be a lot of votes lent to the Lib Dem candidate. Considering they were always a very distant third.

Full steam ahead.

https://www.tvcream.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/71-03.jpg

was always going to be tough for labour with little recent opportunity to challenge boris and the relentless media overexposure of the libdems

loool! go get 'em Kieth!

mofo is playing 4d tiddlywinks here

Snapshot of byelection performance by Starmer's Labour:

Hartlepool: lost to the Tories.
Chesham and Amersham: lost their deposit.
Batley and Spen: kept by a paltry 323 votes.
Old Bexley and Sidcup: worst Labour vote since 1983.
North Shropshire: 20+ points behind 2017 result.

Just catching up on this by-election discourse and there is surely no way the Lib Dems are taking this seat.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 December 2021 09:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

A few weeks ago, Big Brother contestant Emily Parr proclaimed, hilariously: 'There's a new music taking over this country and it's called indie.'

was watching the betfair market on this last night and there was still late money going on the Tories, a four figure majority for the LibDems didn't seem like a likely outcome.

A few weeks ago, Big Brother contestant Emily Parr proclaimed, hilariously: 'There's a new music taking over this country and it's called indie.'

― imago, Friday, 17 December 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Lol. You really are pathetic to be celebrating this.

you can aftertime quote me saying that the 11/8 for the piss diamonds was ridiculous as well if you want imago. Not sure what it would prove other than nobody can be certain about byelection results!

Not celebrating, just observing. Let's not forget how the Ms Parr story ended...

(but cmon, a complete shellacking for the Tories in a formerly safe seat? that's celebration-worthy. a little. unless it's in favour of Reform or w/e)

Fuck off, imago

LDs have a strong by election game. The result is this plus voters staying home, think the switching (if any) is confined to maybe some Labour voters voting LD. Reading ConHome and they are fuming and want Boris gone now, but there doesn’t seem to be an obvious successor.

I'm not celebrating (except I am)

Would a Labour gain have been a better outcome? Surely this is a defeat for Johnson AND Starmer, which makes it champagne o'clock on here

There's evidence ON THIS THREAD of former Tory voters switching LD, btw

Fuck off

Ultimately voters are safe that they can carry the way they want as no change is offered whether they vote Tory, Lab or Lib Dem at the next election. Excuse me for not celebrating these turds.

"There's evidence ON THIS THREAD of former Tory voters switching LD, btw"

Is that you?

LOL

That 31% for Corbyn is still pretty 0_o.

It was Dan Worsley, whose post was far too informed to have any bearing on the present conversation, clearly

"There's evidence ON THIS THREAD of former Tory voters switching LD, btw"

Is that you?

an all-time zingaroony, that 'un

the only thing I'm celebrating is another abject failure of Starmerism, a very bleak and hopeless duopoly of centre-right scumbag parties for the foreseeable future is not something to celebrate. Although I will personally celebrate Kieth's obituary for being the cunt that has enabled this, even though there is 100% certainty his successor will be worse.

there's a >0% chance his successor will be a Whittome figure, although given how many of us have quit and torn up our cards...

(me too, before anyone says anything)

"there's a >0% chance his successor will be a Whittome figure"

The kind of conversation I come here for.

That 31% for Corbyn is still pretty 0_o.

― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 17 December 2021 bookmarkflaglink

tfw you actually have a serious offer on the table.

it's Kieth's NEC voting threshold changes that will keep left-wing candidates off the leadership ballot forevermore, not members tearing their cards up.

Corbyn's record in a Tory stronghold standing up with '97 Blair's shocker!

genuinely surprised at the result, which apart from anything else seems to kill Brexit as a polarising issue.

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) December 17, 2021

more important (re)tweet and thread a bit further down jamie k's account:

New suspect in the case of the Palme murders, sent an envelope with two bullets matching the murder weapon to frmr Finance Minister Feldt and was apparently on a crusade against road salt

— yakov pettersson (@YakovPettersson) December 16, 2021

hullo all i have now got so good at sleeping thru noisy elections that i overslept entirely, in conclusion

i: this is above all a potholes (and salt) result, which LDs can often bring the juice for in the west like that doctor who went indie (in herefordshire?) or martin bell in derbyshire (also oswestry is a kind of cornwall)
ii: i forgot to mention in my intervention against the open democracy piece that north shropshire is where the glaciers ground to a halt, it is full of moraines and kettleholes and the like, that's its political tradition

hope this helps where's my coffee

> north shropshire is where the glaciers ground to a halt

growing up in tewkesbury we were told they stopped just a few miles north of there (ie some distance south of NShrop)

maybe this is something all geography teachers tell their pupils.

important glacier news from internet user gibble's globe:
https://gibblesglobe.com/2019/05/07/quaternary-shropshire/