Byelections of choice have always been difficult for the party defending the seat. I can remember the loss of #ashfield in 1977 causing #labour to lose its majority and seek an arrangement with the #Liberals . So it is understandable that the #conservatives have avoided them - by not including peerages for sitting members of parliament in honours lists. What is remarkable is that #labour got away with holding no fewer than three of them - two in distinctly marginal seats - without losing any!

RT @Glenntwts
Lee Anderson: credibility shot to pieces.

#30pLee #Ashfield

Lee Anderson says he is sympathetic to asylum hotel protesters

Yeah, we know #30pLee - you are determined to monopolise the support of the nasty #racists within the electorate

I wonder what that makes you so vile, and your rancid assessmement of your fellow #english as "just normal family people" when they join #farRight hate groups?

Normal people do not publicly express hatred toward those less fortunate than themselves. No decent person in #Ashfield should vote for this #excrescence

Downed Power Lines in #Ashfield on RT-116-WB/EB at Roaring Book Rd. Rt-116 is currently closed. Seek alt. route.

RT @DalbidEU@twitter.com

@SimonClarkeMP@twitter.com A bloke in #Ashfield claims around £200k in expenses and talks about ‘honest graft’. We pay his expenses. Same bloke thinks having a photo taken with a bacon barm and a brew portrays him as a 'man of the people'. I don’t ‘hate’ #LeeAndersonMP. I pity him. And those who laud him.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DalbidEU/status/1616020207805534212

RT @DalbidEU@twitter.com

A bloke in #Ashfield claims around £200k in expenses and talks about ‘honest graft’. We pay his expenses. Same bloke thinks having a photo taken with a bacon barm and a brew portrays him as a 'man of the people'. I don’t ‘hate’ #LeeAndersonMP. I pity him. A fake in a dark place.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DalbidEU/status/1615631211384410115

@fencoul My ‘less chance’ vote is predicated on the (unverified) intuition that eg. door-to-door interaction with MPs/Councillors would enhance/betray* a closer metric for trust. The links between #democracy and #freespeech are not transparent and, given #socialmedia, the latter militates against the latter (+ some hate speech regulation. This is about placing your trust in that megawalt #TommyRobinsin.
*Unless the man at the door is #LeeAnderon, #Ashfield, #Notts#, #GTTO. Slam).