Malvern Save The Children C/D 31.12.24
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Where Are Labour This Morning?
Licking their wounds? Maybe voters are just as fed up with their constant sniping at the government yet not offering a viable solution to current problems.
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'Looking at the results themselves, it is clear how the defeat was inflicted. Turnout was down by over twenty per cent; the vast majority of whom appear to have been Conservative voters. Their apathy is unsurprising given the constant drip of negative press ever since the Owen Paterson affair needlessly triggered this by-election in the first place. The temporary withdrawal of support is more a shot across the bows that voters are unhappy with recent conduct, than a sudden affinity for the non-descript political presence of the Liberal Democrats. A position that should be eminently recoverable for the Prime Minister.
However, analysis of the results compared to those from 2019 makes for interesting reading. Labour saw their vote share in the constituency collapse by over seventy per cent, most of which quite probably went into bolstering the Lib Dem vote. Assuming those on the Left motivated by a Conservative defeat maximised their turnout, it is quite feasible that the number of “lifelong Tories switching their vote to the Lib Dems” was somewhere around 3,500. That figure has a far smaller impact than the absence of voters altogether.'
However, analysis of the results compared to those from 2019 makes for interesting reading. Labour saw their vote share in the constituency collapse by over seventy per cent, most of which quite probably went into bolstering the Lib Dem vote. Assuming those on the Left motivated by a Conservative defeat maximised their turnout, it is quite feasible that the number of “lifelong Tories switching their vote to the Lib Dems” was somewhere around 3,500. That figure has a far smaller impact than the absence of voters altogether.'
Boris is tired , he’s had more thrown at him in just two years than any PM since WW2, and now he’s making mistakes by backing those in his party that should of been sacked, I really think it’s time for a new leader but not in the way the Boris bashers on here think, we need fresh blood and a clean sweep , only then will the Tory’s be a reputable party again, Labour had died , the LibDems get used as a protest vote , The conservatives will rise again , make no mistake about that, perhaps with Rishi Sunak leading them
/There speaks a woman who's never grasped the concept of tactical voting//
And there speaks a man who doesn't understand what he's reading so I'll explain further. In light of all the criticism the government comes in for, yes, the electorate have submitted a protest vote - but at the same time they've made it crystal clear that they really - really - don't want Labour.
And there speaks a man who doesn't understand what he's reading so I'll explain further. In light of all the criticism the government comes in for, yes, the electorate have submitted a protest vote - but at the same time they've made it crystal clear that they really - really - don't want Labour.
