Now Can We Please Stop Talking ...

[sunny-dave]

... about Jeremy Corbyn as an electoral liability?

Under his leadership (and even after the savaging given to him by the Tory press yesterday), we have seen a significantly increased Labour share of the vote - up by 8 percentage points - about a 15% increase.

Perhaps the Try chattering classes and their lackeys in the right wing press have just not seen what is apparent to those of us on the ground - JC is well regarded as an honest man, who is becoming an increasingly effective opposition to a badly out of touch Tory oligarchy.

[sunny-dave]

"Tory chattering classes"

[ ... Conservative vote share halved, UKIP virtually static, Libdems and Greens just ahead of Sir Oink a Lot ]

[baza]

JC an honest man maybe, but daft as a brush imo.

[Canary42]

.... but they still can't resist insults in place of sensible debate.

[Canary42]

Labour won 62.27% of the vote - up 7.49% from Labour's result at the 2015 general election.


Labour - 17,322

UKIP - 6,487

Conservative - 2,596

Liberal Democrat - 1,024

Green - 249

Monster Raving Loony - 141

[Svejk]

^Postal votes?

[Gromit]

Svejk,
Have you posted a letter since Royal Mail was privatised? The postal votes might just get there for the 2020 election.

[SirOracle]

Included in the above figures Svejk. They are a legitimate form of voting in this country.

Sour grape Farage seems to have some sort of spurious gripe about this though.

[Svejk]

I read about the ethnic postal voting fraud(including Oldham) in The Guardian.

[Svejk]

I read about the ethnic postal voting fraud(including Oldham) in The Guardian.

[Gromit]

Svejk,
Did each ethnic person make two postings? :-)

[Svejk]

^At least. ; )

[Gromit]

Easily done.

[SirOracle]

Well you managed it @ 02.07 this morning Svejk. !!

[Svejk]

Thanks SirO, I was aware of that.

[mikey4444]

Glorious victory for Labour ! Complete humiliation for UKIP ....the Party that was going to "change the face of British politics" .....still only got 1 MP, despite years of trying !

Vindication for Corbyn !

[murraymints]

well..votes count ..and matter....think there might well be a labour swing up here too..

[mikey4444]

Minty...I expect a bounce back by Labour north of the Border as well, as soon as people realise that the SNP cannot provide what it has always promoted...independence for Scotland.

I predict that the SNP vote will start to melt away over the next 4 years, and Labour and the LibDems will move in to fill in the gaps.

Who knows....even the Tories might win back a seat or two !

[murraymints]

not to mention the recent financial "mishandlings" etc...^^

[murraymints]

and we DON'T want independence...that is done and dusted...but SNP are on dodgy ground at the moment with mismanagement../financial impropriety/oil crash... and Corbyns back to basic left approach usually goes down well up here..

[dannyk13]

Party leaders do not win by-elections,candidates do.