:sunglasses: 30 % :pray: 10 % :laughing: 60 %
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By Tubby Isaacs
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More election good news- Rod Liddle lost his deposit in Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East. 4.8%, with a clear run from Reform, is really quite shit.

Arguably, Liddle running cost the Simon Clarke the seat- Labour won by only 214. Though if Reform had run they'd likely have taken more votes off Labour, so swings and roundabouts.
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By Tubby Isaacs
#72165
Arrowhead wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:59 pm Fysh is now blarbing on about the urgent need to build a new right-wing party "that is actually small c conservative where 65% of the country is, that is isn't nativist or weird" :roll:
Does that mean really shit, but led by Kemi Badenoch?
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By kreuzberger
#72177
To be honest, I am still feeling kinda jet-lagged after Thursday evening / Friday morning. I felt a blood-letting at 22:00 and then a drunken, euphoric haze until around 02:00 when I went to be with bluetooth buds, just awakening enough to clock the most important moments. I am shattered.

I am certainly not trading all that poison for elderflower-scented pillows, but my faith in the Old Country is, step-by-step, being restored. My boy tells me that people in west London are warmly greeting each other on the street.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#72179
The Weeping Angel wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:06 pm Is anyone on here still represented by a Tory?
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By Tubby Isaacs
#72182
Arrowhead wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:13 pm
Yep! Saqib Bhatti ended up holding on by about 4,500 votes here in Solihull East & Meriden.
How much of the town of Solihull is in your seat? Because there was a discussion on Twitter about how appallingly the Tories have done in towns, and the question was asked which is the biggest town wholly or mostly contained by a Tory held constituency. The two Solihull seats were suggested, as was Maidstone (and Malling).
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By Arrowhead
#72187
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:32 pm How much of the town of Solihull is in your seat? Because there was a discussion on Twitter about how appallingly the Tories have done in towns, and the question was asked which is the biggest town wholly or mostly contained by a Tory held constituency. The two Solihull seats were suggested, as was Maidstone (and Malling).
Only a relatively small amount of Solihull itself, I think. It's a very oddly-drawn seat which takes in a lot of the posh rural areas between Solihull and Coventry, and a rather downtrodden portion of eastern Birmingham. I believe the main bulk of Solihull itself is covered by the new Solihull West and Shirley constituency.
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By Arrowhead
#72188
Incidentally, on the subject of Solihull West & Shirley: I've just noticed that the previous MP for the abolished Solihull constituency, Julian Knight, finished a distant last and lost his deposit. Lord only knows what convinced him to stand again, he hadn't even been an MP for long enough to build up much of a personal vote.

Some people just don't know when to make a dignified exit.
By Youngian
#72199
The Weeping Angel wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:06 pm Is anyone on here still represented by a Tory?
Sadly yes and Reform came second. But I don’t care as I walk the dog three streets away where the first former PM for over a century was ejected by Labour. And even better it’s Liz Truss.
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By Andy McDandy
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Arrowhead wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 11:09 pm
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:32 pm How much of the town of Solihull is in your seat? Because there was a discussion on Twitter about how appallingly the Tories have done in towns, and the question was asked which is the biggest town wholly or mostly contained by a Tory held constituency. The two Solihull seats were suggested, as was Maidstone (and Malling).
Only a relatively small amount of Solihull itself, I think. It's a very oddly-drawn seat which takes in a lot of the posh rural areas between Solihull and Coventry, and a rather downtrodden portion of eastern Birmingham. I believe the main bulk of Solihull itself is covered by the new Solihull West and Shirley constituency.
Chelmsley Wood? It's a really sharp contrast between there and the forest of Arden.
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