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View Matov's Profile Matov Flag 17 Dec 21 9.26am Send a Private Message to Matov Add Matov as a friend

Originally posted by DanH

Looking at the vote share it looks like a lot of tactical votes from other parties to Lib Dems too. If this translates to other seats, and the opposition parties get their act together to encourage this then the Tories could be in big trouble.

Why should an opposition party want to engage in a tactical voting alliance? Would they even be 'Labour' anymore? Its one of those illusions of British politics that seems to operate almost as a fantasy.

The Lib Dems traditionally come third, and by some margin, in this seat. It was fought on the dynamics that govern mid-term, and after multiple periods of a single party ruling, by-elections.

Yes, a real bloody nose for the Tories and Johnson in particular. Absolutely no questions around that. But in the greater scheme of things, not necessarily a game-changer in how the rest of our political system functions.

If Labour had won then I suspect the Torys would be planning for Johnson's immediate removal ASAP. But as it is, then I suspect they will grumble and make noises but Johnson, for now, ain't going anywhere.

And who would honestly want to take over now? We going into unknown territory here with this latest Covid nightmare and with local elections in May, any serious player would want to emerge after that as the great white/brown/black hope because everything points to it not being a great night for the Tories in May 2022 because that's how these things go anyway.

If you are a genuine contender for the top job then making your move now is not a wise move. There are numerous snakes ahead of you on the board, with very, very few ladders and the grim reality that the dice are well and truly Covid loaded.

Johnson has 5 months to save his job. And define his legacy. Hubris is the destroyer of Empire and if he is anything approaching the Classicist he proclaims himself, then he will have to face up to that within the next 72 hours and start acting accordingly.

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View DanH's Profile DanH Flag SW2 17 Dec 21 9.35am Send a Private Message to DanH Add DanH as a friend

Originally posted by Matov

Why should an opposition party want to engage in a tactical voting alliance? Would they even be 'Labour' anymore? Its one of those illusions of British politics that seems to operate almost as a fantasy.

The Lib Dems traditionally come third, and by some margin, in this seat. It was fought on the dynamics that govern mid-term, and after multiple periods of a single party ruling, by-elections.

Yes, a real bloody nose for the Tories and Johnson in particular. Absolutely no questions around that. But in the greater scheme of things, not necessarily a game-changer in how the rest of our political system functions.

If Labour had won then I suspect the Torys would be planning for Johnson's immediate removal ASAP. But as it is, then I suspect they will grumble and make noises but Johnson, for now, ain't going anywhere.

And who would honestly want to take over now? We going into unknown territory here with this latest Covid nightmare and with local elections in May, any serious player would want to emerge after that as the great white/brown/black hope because everything points to it not being a great night for the Tories in May 2022 because that's how these things go anyway.

If you are a genuine contender for the top job then making your move now is not a wise move. There are numerous snakes ahead of you on the board, with very, very few ladders and the grim reality that the dice are well and truly Covid loaded.

Johnson has 5 months to save his job. And define his legacy. Hubris is the destroyer of Empire and if he is anything approaching the Classicist he proclaims himself, then he will have to face up to that within the next 72 hours and start acting accordingly.

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Edited by Matov (17 Dec 2021 9.29am)

I agree with much of that but this appears to suggest that even if parties don’t want to engage in it voters are willing to.

This is a decent summary of it for me:

 

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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 17 Dec 21 9.57am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Its also a hiding for Starmer, deservedly, and his policy of non-opposition.

Voters see him as an establishment figure, a perpetuation of a tory government nothing would change.

He can't get elected without minority parties support but his head is in the sand.

 

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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 17 Dec 21 10.01am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

The lib-dems of course are pro-europe so this is a big win for rejoining the EU.

Also their policy is to welcome asylum seekers and let them work.

If Starmer does cut a deal his lack of opposition to brexit is out of the window.

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 17 Dec 21 10.28am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by steeleye20

The lib-dems of course are pro-europe so this is a big win for rejoining the EU.

Also their policy is to welcome asylum seekers and let them work*.

If Starmer does cut a deal his lack of opposition to brexit is out of the window.

Bit of a stretch here Steeleye.

This was a typical mid term by election defeat. I doubt the voters were thinking about the EU and even the migrant boats. This was a straight forward bloody nose for a government from a very pissed off public, it happens.

Matov is right Boris is not down and out just yet, besides the Tory backstabbers don't fancy taking over whilst the pandemic still rages. They will oust him in sometime later next year when things have calmed down.


*Assumming the voters were thinking about migrants they might have voted against the government for the failure to stop them coming. So a vote against Boris not for the Lib Dems. However I prefer my first comment this was about sleaze and rule breaking.

Edited by Badger11 (17 Dec 2021 10.39am)

 


One more point

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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 17 Dec 21 10.32am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

The 80 majority is Brexit. The country was exhausted by it and wanted it done, whichever way they voted in the referendum.

The Red Wall collapsed because dyed in the wool socialists from the Northern Industrial heartland are also fanatically xenophobic and Leavers to a man.

If Starmer touches Brexit they have no chance of winning back those seats and Labour are doomed. Again.

Sadly, it is a dead issue.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 17 Dec 21 10.44am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by steeleye20

The lib-dems of course are pro-europe so this is a big win for rejoining the EU.

Also their policy is to welcome asylum seekers and let them work.

If Starmer does cut a deal his lack of opposition to brexit is out of the window.

So you seriously think this vote was a plea for rejoining the EU and a Lib Dem government?

Haven't you seen these protest votes before Steely?

 


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Originally posted by steeleye20

The lib-dems of course are pro-europe so this is a big win for rejoining the EU.

Also their policy is to welcome asylum seekers and let them work.

If Starmer does cut a deal his lack of opposition to brexit is out of the window.

I think most people are 'pro-Europe' (apart from Islamic extremists perhaps and Putin), people are anti-the EU racket and suspicious of illegal immigrants posing as 'asylum seekers'.

 

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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

So you seriously think this vote was a plea for rejoining the EU and a Lib Dem government?

Haven't you seen these protest votes before Steely?

Reading the various, fairly predictable, comments of voters who switched, they were all unhappy with the government, and local issues which they blame on the government. Much of it unreasonably, of course, because the pandemic wasn't their fault, but their behaviour is.

When it was also their behaviour that resulted in Brexit, joining up the dots may not yet have been done, but it will be. Come the next GE, with the financial legacy of the pandemic around our necks and the Brexit mess making it worse, don't be surprised to see those dots not just joined up but forming a clear picture of discontent and another way forward.

It does though demand either a new direction from the Tories, or a re-organised opposition. Neither of which appear very likely at present.

 

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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 17 Dec 21 11.12am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

The UK system has less in common with democracy than Blackadder and The Rump.

For real change there would have to be a revolution.

Count me in, but I think most modern revolutionaries wouldn't make it beyond the nearest ATM.


 

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Originally posted by georgenorman

I think most people are 'pro-Europe' (apart from Islamic extremists perhaps and Putin), people are anti-the EU racket and suspicious of illegal immigrants posing as 'asylum seekers'.

I think that's basically right.

Often those who are anti EU are painted as anti Europe when that's a lazy connection. Thatcher for example, started out as very much for the EU until she realised that the project was destined to essentially be anti most of her ideas.

I think the EU could have worked far better if it had been far looser.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Dec 2021 11.15am)

 


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Originally posted by steeleye20

The UK system has less in common with democracy than Blackadder and The Rump.

For real change there would have to be a revolution.

Count me in, but I think most modern revolutionaries wouldn't make it beyond the nearest ATM.


Blimey a Steely comment that I basically agree with.

The problem with revolution is that most of the people hurt by it are innocent and blameless.

 


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