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Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390465305038761987

lost tae a random

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I don't think I trust burnham not to just windsock if given half a chance, but it will be curious to see how that works out for him.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390474055497682946

And one for the Greens, you can't say it's not an absolute fair and equal hammering for Keith.

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo
Was Burnham the one who wrote the "We have no money" note?

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral
I looked him up, and his campaign issues were

- opposing a housing development that was going to knock down a row of people's garages and where the Labour guy used to be on the board of directors for the development company
- living in Cramlington and not parachuting in from Blyth like the Tory candidate, who was also beholden to her distant and aloof bosses in Morpeth
-

I love local elections

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

Apraxin posted:

I looked him up, and his campaign issues were

- opposing a housing development that was going to knock down a row of people's garages and where the Labour guy used to be on the board of directors for the development company
- living in Cramlington and not parachuting in from Blyth like the Tory candidate, who was also beholden to her distant and aloof bosses in Morpeth
-

I love local elections

https://twitter.com/marwoldeb/status/1390476093816283136

Amazing

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

lmao at "I do the council's job for them so make me the council"

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Chuka Umana posted:

Was Burnham the one who wrote the "We have no money" note?

No, that was Liam Byrne, the West Midlands Labour Mayoral candidate who is going to get humiliated by the Tories probably

Quotey
Aug 16, 2006

We went out for lunch and then we stopped for some bubble tea.
Well, this is what Labour gets for the years of antisemitism. Can't argue with that.

Quotey
Aug 16, 2006

We went out for lunch and then we stopped for some bubble tea.
Oh that's good, Scott stopped housing from being built. He's got my vote. Where the gently caress am I supposed to park?

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Darth Walrus posted:

Right, but the Lib Dems have always specialised in local, decentralised politics. Each Lib Dem constituency party is practically a small, well-resourced political party in its own right, and they're really good at picking up councils by presenting a convincing argument that they're the professional adults who can fix your potholes, rebuild your leisure centre, and not have any embarrassing sex/bribery scandals. That message may not be true, of course, but they're very good at selling it.

This also forms part of the reason why they keep eating poo poo at the national level - the party is so fragmented that they have serious difficulty combining a million local issues into a single national vision.


OwlFancier posted:

There is probably a highly localised effort by the lib dems to take that council and/or some local issue in play. As I said they can go all over the place, council elections are weird and you basically need to just look at all the results to draw any real understanding out of it.

Yeah this is what I intended to post like two hours ago before I got distracted bullying my friend online, Lib Dems can present themselves as really great on specific local issues in ways that boosts them well above their wider profile, and when you're talking about voter turnouts in the thousands or even hundreds, it's probably much easier for someone with a modicum of charisma (or just the ability not to seem like a wrong'un) to have an effect when they go around knocking on doors and poo poo. Especially as we're now probably far enough out that many people not in the national party can go "I hear you on the student fees, weren't me though guv" and be telling the truth and the old stink might adhere a little less?

Loonytoad Quack
Aug 24, 2004

High on Shatner's Bassoon
Looking forward to Kieth owning the gently caress out of this:

https://twitter.com/JoshHalliday/status/1390479578104217601?s=19

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Loonytoad Quack posted:

Looking forward to Kieth owning the gently caress out of this:

https://twitter.com/JoshHalliday/status/1390479578104217601?s=19

lmfao rekt

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

Looking forward to Kieth owning the gently caress out of this:

https://twitter.com/JoshHalliday/status/1390479578104217601?s=19

:argh: "jUrEmBlEe CuRbReAm!"

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling





So how do we think he's done lassies?

Breath Ray
Nov 19, 2010

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Last election had 58% turnout. This election is expected to get over 50%. 6000 vote lead translates to some 17% lead for the Tories. Which is exactly the lead of the recent Hartlepool poll.

Labour could lose Wales

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

Ms Adequate posted:



So how do we think he's done lassies?

Think he's going to need another Relaunch.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

also I drove 600 miles to Chicago today and had Nando’s for the first time since I moved to the states.

just as good as I remembered.

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.
https://twitter.com/e_casalicchio/status/1390483189567787009
OOOF

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo
Will Starmer resign?

Selenephos
Jul 9, 2010

Chuka Umana posted:

Will Starmer resign?

Haha no he'll just blame Corbyn despite doing worse than Corbyn in 2019.
The dude is a Tory plant

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I would be surprised but we live in a world of possibility.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/de_jever/status/1390424948087345159?s=21

Exquisite.

blues thief
Apr 1, 2013

Chuka Umana posted:

Will Starmer resign?

Every Labour interviewee has been repeating the party line about how actually this is proof they're recovering from 2019, so unless something suddenly changes, nah.

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

Chuka Umana posted:

Will Starmer resign?

I don't think so - probably try and blame literally everything else, and everyone of the PLP will openly agree, all the while sharpening their knives until they feel one of them could mount a challenge.

[e]: :eyepop:
VVV

Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 03:12 on May 7, 2021

Sonderval
Sep 10, 2011
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390487977097408514
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390477819856179202
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390474851308167172
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390473482509721600
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390468100869529600
ahahahahahahahaha my town is a poo poo hole but Labour have nobody to blame but themselves for this one lol god drat

Sonderval fucked around with this message at 03:22 on May 7, 2021

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo

wtf is milibandism

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

The next labour party position to the right of corbyn lmao.

Also given milliband is in the cabinet that would be doubly funny.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1390481310490181632?s=21

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1390484748577951747?s=21

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1390420142799134720?s=21

Starmer's bankrupted the loving party.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Was mentioned earlier, starmer drove all the membership donations away by attacking corbyn, and he hasn't gotten any big donors back either because he's a useless sack of shite.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Was mentioned earlier, starmer drove all the membership donations away by attacking corbyn, and he hasn't gotten any big donors back either because he's a useless sack of shite.

Oh, I know, but this is an extra little detail of how their cash shortage has hosed them.

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

I hope he's an MI5/tory plant, because :lol: if he actually hosed up so bad while actually believing he was doing good.

Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.
It’d be funny if he left a note.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

lmao though that their approach to running out of money is to sack the people who help them win elections.

big death spiral energy.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Pesky Splinter posted:

I hope he's an MI5/tory plant, because :lol: if he actually hosed up so bad while actually believing he was doing good.

Look at Cameron. Look at May. Look at Swinson. Look at Change UK. Politicians dubbed 'competent' and 'professional' by the media-political establishment are only ever a few months away from exploring new and exciting depths of incompetence.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

BORIS

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I feel like if there is a silver lining it is that this appears at least to illustrate that it doesn't matter how much shite the press puts up they can't polish a turd.

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Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral
Turnout a bit less than it seemed it might be, but still not bad for a by-election
https://twitter.com/katewilsea/status/1390495087579340804

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