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

I was hoping you would comment on this mark

xpost obv

One of the biggest Hail Mary requests I've done on here, but - would anyone in North Shropshire (Owestry ideally, can travel from Shrewsbury) be willing to help me cover the by-election tomorrow?

Would be compensated of course - please RT/fire at some locals if poss

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) December 15, 2021

this could have been a good opportunity for you to mix a homecoming with a bit of work, mark

i do actually have friends still in oswestry lol HOWEVER

She got the sack

I have a Fever, a Cough and a team member has tested positive for COVID yet my boss wishes to force me to come into work when I’m not only physically unwell but could be carrying a disease which is highly transmissible.

Hospitality eh? pic.twitter.com/bl1ldgaYeb

— Rachael (@baylis_rachael) December 15, 2021

Was this bit of genius posted?

Whoever added Sir David Attenborough’s voice over to this is simply genius! A must watch & share clip! pic.twitter.com/AL7jB32Jk0

— The Political Rants (@vinod_d007) December 14, 2021

Lib Dems North Shropshire internal polling:
CON: 40%
LDEM: 39%
LAB: 12%
REF: 4%
GRN: 4%
DO NOT VOTE Labour or Green.
There is only one party to vote for.

VOTE LIB-DEM

A vote for Conservative, Labour or Green is a vote for Owen Paterson.

this "internal polling" reads like fanciful bs seeing as Labour have finished 2nd 5 out of the last 6. It's unfortunate for Kieth that most of the members/voters that wouldn't fall for this grift have been told to fuck off.

xp

if that's blown yr mind, god help us when you discover led by donkeys!

Work colleague is from Shropshire, his dad plays tennis with the chair of the Wem Conservative party who’s told him he’s voting Lib-Dem.

LibDem odds have gone as short as 10/11 now!

The North Shropshire betting has gone haywire in the last hour. pic.twitter.com/RnHi4OGFNq

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 16, 2021

and 4/7 now!

If you had a vote in that election, for whom would you vote?

Personally: I wouldn't wish to vote for KS's Labour. I don't like the LibDems but it seems a relatively logical alternative to the unpalatable act of a vote that gives support to KS.

If you'd like to vote against the government, but hate KS, as Calzino and I do - then why not vote LD?

Thus, KS's direness might be shedding votes in that direction?

The alternative would be to vote Green, Shropshire Socialist Front or whatever - fine, I respect that and might do it.

I’d stay home

There's a Shropshire Socialist Front?

I certainly hope so!

there may be but they're not standing

Labour coming 3rd would be very funny at least and an indication of how well Starmer's strategy is going down with so called swing voters in the Tory heartlands. I mean if 2019 was one of the worst electoral results for Labour, as he keeps saying - how does he excuse getting less votes and getting voted into third place by the very voters he has been trying to appeal to for the last year and a half.

the Shropshire CPGB- ML last updated on twitter in october 2015 and on facebook in july 2016

a sad hiatus in marxism-leninism mao-tse-tung-hoxha-bains thought

the Party Party candidate says he wants to engage with the youth of N Shropshire but he doesn't talk much about partying, more about dull stuff like the robust local economy of farmers, markets and towns being the strength of the area.

That's odd!
Surely he should just promote partying!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-59289032

A BJ impersonator is standing.

There is no Shropshire Socialist Front candidate or similar.

I think if I had a vote I would vote LD to a) vote vs the government, b) vote vs KS in the way that Calzino describes.

I do not wish to suggest that I actually support the LDs.

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)