Interesting.......

[jackthehat]

Quite a swing from a Labour to the Tories.....

It may only be a Council by-election but perhaps the perceived 'disatisfaction' with the Tories, at all levels of government, is actually stronger against Labour and some of its, quite frankly bonkers, rhetoric than some realise or are prepared to admit?

https://tinypic.host/image/F7jDc

[ToraToraTora]

oh dear that's not in the script!

[jackthehat]

This is what happens when you disregard the thoughts and feelings of 51% of the population. 

Hopefully, until Labour recognises that it needs to pull its' head out of its' fundament and properly engage the electorate with sensible policies, this pattern will repeat itself elsewhere.

[ichkeria]

Local council by-elections, with local issues, often have notoriously weird results. Just saying. 
https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/01/19/cazenove-by-election-conservatives-score-upset-swipe-seat-labour/

He was a previous Lib Dem councillor for the wonderfully named ward.

Still, some good news for the Tories I guess.

[naomi24]

That is Hackney in London?  Wow!!  

[newmodarmy]

Very local issues, in this case the proposed traffic reduction scheme, can make a huge difference. I wouldn't see this result as a barometer in any way.

[jackthehat]

The Labour party took its feminist candidate hostage, forced her to sign a confession and lost the seat. Enormous swing to the Tories, who are incredibly unpopular.

All to do with Trans-extremism and I hope this pattern repeats itself everywhere that Labour seeks to force its' Trans-ideology on the electorate. Some issues transcend even 'proposed traffic reduction schemes'.

[royfromaus]

Shower of *** the lot of them be it Cons or Labour.

Labour's stance on trans issues and their stance on Israel/Gaza has lost them lots of votes. I can not see the landslide the media tells us we are going to have coming to fruition.

 

[royfromaus]

Not forgetting the ludicrous net-zero aims.

[JACKSON-REACHER]

Great win.

The Labour Party had disowned their candidate, and the winner was a LibDem who had just defected to the Conservatives.

 

[JACKSON-REACHER]

other London Council by election news...

// The Conservative party was “wiped out in its former London heartlands” on Friday after the last Tory seat on Richmond council was lost in a by-election. 

The Liberal Democrats took the Hampton North ward seat from the Tories and held another in Teddington in votes on Thursday. //

[Old_Geezer]

"the winner was a LibDem who had just defected to the Conservatives"

 

Can't help feeling that, that indicates where folk believe the Tories have positioned themselves recently.

[newmodarmy]

Jack the hat. I feel you're overstating the effect of that important issue here . Wouldn't disillusioned  labour voters vote for liberals not tory- unless there's figures to show they just didn't vote at all

[jackthehat]

newmodarmy - Apparently, there are numerous comments/tweets from disgruntled women who took time to explain why they had decided to shift their votes from Labour to the Tories and the preponderance of these are because of the way Labour pushed the 'Trans' issue to the fore.

[JACKSON-REACHER]

// 

It came after support for Labour candidate Laura Pascal collapsed in the east London borough. 

Days before the poll Ms Pascal was suspended by her party and members were told to cease campaigning for her following allegations of transphobia and racism.

Posters showing a tweet she had liked, which suggested a trans woman was wearing "womanface" and it was comparable to blackface makeup, had been plastered up across the borough.

Her suspension was lifted on Wednesday afternoon, just hours before the by-election. 

A source close Ms Pascal's campaign said :“It was totally impossible for Labour to snatch a win in a marginal ward with a candidate who embroiled herself in a racism scandal. 

"Clearly the people of Hackney were deeply offended by this image of blackface to make some sort of clumsy and misguided comparison, which was flyposted all over the ward this week.” //

[jackthehat]

Labour are spinning it as if the issue was 'racism' rather than the rejection of 'trans' ideology that it actually was.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12983229/

[jno]

that's what the Mail are saying, and exactly what I would expect the Mail to say, but it's interesting that the Tories are saying nothing of the sort: they see it as a traffic vote.

[jno]

just to expand on that: the Tories are hoping traffic arrangements will be their big vote-winner in and around London at GE time, which is why they may be spinning this as a triumph for freedom of the roads as against Sadiq Khan's* preference for keeping citizens from choking.

I suspect Labour's ability to self-destruct may well have had a part to play given that they screwed up so near to polling day, but I'm not sure trans matters will be a major point of difference nationwide.

*Actually Boris's, Sadiq just introduced it, but let's not dwell on that.

[naomi24]

//Sadiq Khan's preference for keeping citizens from choking//

 

Well, you fell for it at least, Jno.  The rest of us know he's keeping the coffers topped up the easy way.  
 

If the trans issue is the reason is the reason for this unexpected occurrence, I can only hope it's repeated elsewhere and this fashionable nonsense is very firmly kicked into touch.

[jno]

The rest of us know he's keeping the coffers topped up the easy way.  

Did you deliberately skip the part where I pointed out that it was Boris's idea? One of the few Boris ideas that make sense, too!

The report so far is

Almost 50% reduction in toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution in central London.

800,000 tonne reduction in carbon dioxide emissions between 2019 and 2022.

5 times faster reduction of pollution in London than the rest of the UK, between 2016 and 2020.

Naturally, I wouldn't expect anyone outside London to care either way, but it's sweet that they take such an interest in London driving.

[jackthehat]

jno - I posted the article from the DM because it is the most easily accessible report on this. I have been reading/watching the fallout, etc. on X(Twitter) but as it is spread across many commentators it is difficult to find appropriate links. The Trans issue and the Labour party response to it was certainly top of the list for many women in Hackney.