Tactical voting could spell the Tories’ worst election in 100 years, shock poll shows | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tactical-voting-general-election-tory-defeat-sunak-starmer-b2407871.html

#TacticalVoting
#Tories
#GE
#SplitOppositionVote
#LibDems
#Starmer
#Pincher
#ByElection
#Tamworth
#Greens
#ElectoralCalculus
#RedWall

I've kept my promise to the man from the Jehovah's Witnesses and looked at their website. Didn't find anything worth linking to - sorry.

The JWs visited on Saturday morning (the first time in several years, to be fair) and it's reminded me I can be _too_ generous with my time. I'll bear this in mind, and now calmly await the first canvassers from the Scottish Family Party (#NoLinkForYou) in the lead up to https://news.sky.com/story/margaret-ferrier-rutherglen-and-hamilton-west-by-election-to-replace-covid-rule-breaking-mp-set-for-october-12955025. I'm sure they'll be a delight.

#ByElection #JehovasWitnesses

MP #ChrisPincher loses appeal against eight-week suspension

Development paves way for possible #byelection in #Tamworth seat of #MP found to have drunkenly groped two men
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/04/mp-chris-pincher-loses-appeal-against-eight-week-suspension

#ToryBehaviour

Interesting that Humza #Yousaf uses his speech at an #independence rally to concentrate on the "national tragedy" of #Brexit. The #SNP seems to be the only party in #Scotland calling for rejoining the #EU and being honest about the cost of Brexit. With the #RutherglenAndHamiltonWest #byelection coming up, is he emphasing differences with the rival #Labour party, who worry that being pro-EU will be bad for them in England?
#politics #ScotPol #ScottishIndependence #indy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66695252

“Meanwhile, the Lib Dems are hoping to appeal to the true blues by the fact their candidate is involved with the Women’s Institute.”

Yeah, that should swing it their way… 😂

#Byelection #Labour #LibDems #NadineDorries

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/battle-mid-bedfordshire-nadine-dorries-2582870

One Tory backbencher told the Guardian: “Nadine has done the party a great disservice by attacking Rishi in such a way. Her words will end up on every Labour party leaflet at the next election.”

Oh, I do hope so. And every other party should put them on their leaflets too...

#NadineDorries #Tories #Byelection

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/27/nadine-dorries-departure-is-relief-for-sunak-but-byelection-holds-danger

There seems to be an acknowledgement, at last, in this Guardian headline that Labour is no longer on the left.

“The avenue of attack is that Labour is not progressive enough,” said a Labour source close to the campaign. “It’s a cynical message and it’s not working.”

It’s not cynical; it’s accurate. And whether it’s working, well, let’s see how the byelection goes, eh?

#LabourScottishBranchOffice #Labour #SNP #Byelection

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/06/tories-are-no-different-from-labour-says-snp-in-run-up-to-rutherglen-and-hamilton-west-byelection

So whose policy position is the right one: Starmer’s, or his candidate in Rutherglen?

Better sort it out before the byelection, chaps.

#Labour #Byelection

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/03/keir-starmer-policy-split-scottish-labour-gender-recognition

“Can Labour retake Britain? Soon this Scottish byelection will let us know.”

Will it, though?

#Labour #SNP #Byelection

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/labour-scottish-byelection-rutherglen-hamilton-west-snp

Byelection triggered after constituents vote to remove Margaret Ferrier | Scottish politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/01/rutherglen-and-hamilton-west-byelection-triggered-after-constituents-vote-to-remove-margaret-ferrier-from-seat

#Covid
#MP
#Ferrier
#ByElection
#Scotland

Voters in Rutherglen and Hamilton, remember one thing, Labour will 100% stab you in the back. #ByElection #RutherglenandHamilton #Scotland

#ukpol #byelections Current polls suggest that #labour is likely to win but with a lower probability than was the case for #uxbridgeandsouthruislip - so not exactly a guaranteed result. And the #voterIDrequirements changes are yet to be factored in. So rather uncertain. There may also be a another #byelection in #tamworth if #chrispincher stands down. And presumably eventually #nadinedorries will actually resign although she has spent longer resigning than #liztruss served as prime minister!

#ukpol Breaking News!

It has just been announced on the #bbc - no doubt a mention that provoke a response from #vigilantes ! - that there will be a #byelection in #rutherglenandhamiltonwest as a result of a valid #recall #petition . The date will be set next month when #parliament reassembles. This means not until October at the earliest. This means also that new #voterIDrequirements for parliamentary elections will be in force - as it seems they were not in July!

The main political parties are scrabbling around to ditch green policies after the #UxbridgeAndSouthRuislip #byelection because of voter rejection of #ULEZ. The population refuses to pay for a better environment. Humanity is ultimately too tight to save itself.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-66351769
#ClimateChange

Of course, the #byelection post-mortems are under way in earnest this weekend....

The key take-away as far as I can see, is don't be misled by the % swings quoted, what we may really have seen was a collapse of the #Tory vote (i.e. abstaining, rather than vote-shifting).

How this plays out in a #generalelection is difficult to predict... will some #Tories 'lend' their vote to opposition parties to teach their (normal) party a lesson?

A new Govt. may find its support weak & be led rightwards?

Voting underway
Across Selby and Ainsty too
Polls close in the night

#byelection #voting #politics #haiku #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/by-election-polls-results-uxbridge-selby-b2378839.html

It’s a bit rich of the #Tories jumping on the bandwagon to abandon #ULEZ and for others to blame #London #Mayor #SadiqKhan for #Labour not quite winning the #Uxbridge #ByElection. It was #BorisJohnson's #government and #GrantShapps in particular who pushed the measure through (and one of the very few things I could agree with them on).

#UK #Politics

Congratulations #Labour for electing a white male professional politician with a politics degree from Oxford. A radical choice and another clear indicator of how Labour will distinguish itself from the #Tories 👏👏https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66265494 #byelection #Selby

I am totally not surprised by Uxbridge/South Ruislip voting for the Cons. It confirms why I left there years ago.

#byelection #Uxbridge

I don't understand humans. Have the Uxbridge voters been living under a rock for the last 13 years?
#uxbridge #byelection #ukpolitics