Batley and Spen by-election

[Jeff Robinson]

Novara media's Darren Bacardi seems to be fan-girling Gallowfash under the pretence of 'listening tO the voTERs'. Strange times.

 

[tim]

George is going to have Paul’s coke stash robbed

Galloway is notoriously litigious and usually wins. The good news for Paul Mason is that liberated from the obligations of his current job, Sir Keith Starmer Q.C. will be free to accept the defence brief.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Rowan, however, has had enough. Despite her lifelong affiliation to (Labour), she has gradually grown detached from it over the years, and for the first time in her life she will vote Conservative... she does not think the party represents working-class people. “They’re all lawyers or doctors,” she says. “Keir Starmer – he was a lawyer, wasn’t it? He’s not Harold Wilson, is he?”

‘They’re all lawyers’: Labour voters look elsewhere in Batley byelection

Some blame local problems on Labour-led council and say party does not represent working class

www.theguardian.com

I really don't get it, Labour is full of lawyers and doctors who don't represent workers so instead vote for... the party of hedge funders and venture capitalists? How is such mangled, incoherent thinking possible?

 

[tim]

‘They’re all lawyers’: Labour voters look elsewhere in Batley byelection

Some blame local problems on Labour-led council and say party does not represent working class

www.theguardian.com

I really don't get it, Labour is full of lawyers and doctors who don't represent workers so instead vote for... the party of hedge funders and venture capitalists? How is such mangled, incoherent thinking possible?

Harold Wilson was an Oxford don before he became an MP., Rowan is clearly lamenting the low academic standards of the current Labour leadership.

 

[tim]

Birds of a feather shit together

 

[Jeff Robinson]

This by-election is really a microcosm of everything shit about UK politics isn't it?

 

[magneze]

It really is "none of the above" here isn't it.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I really don't get it, Labour is full of lawyers and doctors who don't represent workers so instead vote for... the party of hedge funders and venture capitalists? How is such mangled, incoherent thinking possible?

They’ve voted for the lawyers and doctors all their lives and they’ve delivered next to fuck all. This isn’t a pro Tory rebellion by the working class, it’s an anti labour rebellion: Scotland, the deindustrialised towns of the north, Midlands and Wales and now places like Batley. All gone. None coming back soon

 

[Jeff Robinson]

They’ve voted for the lawyers and doctors all their lives and they’ve delivered next to fuck all. This isn’t a pro Tory rebellion by the working class, it’s an anti labour rebellion: Scotland, the deindustrialised towns of the north, Midlands and Wales and now places like Batley. All gone. None coming back soon

Loads of former Labour voters are voting Tory, including the person I quoted.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Loads of former Labour voters are voting Tory, including the person I quoted.

The point is they aren’t voting Labour. Some will vote for the repellent Galloway, some will vote Tory and more won’t bother at all. All of the stuff I’m reading seems to suggest a popular impulse to give labour a kicking

 

[Jeff Robinson]

The point is they aren’t voting Labour. Some will vote for the repellent Galloway, some will vote Tory and more won’t bother at all. All of the stuff I’m reading seems to suggest a popular impulse to give labour a kicking

Giving Labour a kicking for not being pro-working class enough by voting Tory remains bizarre.

 

[tim]

This by-election is really a microcosm of everything shit about UK politics isn't it?

Yes, but don't you love that thread of continuity that has run through the British electoral process for centuries

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Yes, but don't you love that thread of continuity that has run through the British electoral process for centuries

I miss the good ol' days of whatever the fuck is happening in the first picture.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Giving Labour a kicking for not being pro-working class enough by voting Tory remains bizarre.

There are specific factors - like Brexit - that partly explain it. It’s also fair to say that despite the Tory pitch to the ‘red wall’ that the votes feel both lent and contingent. But the main story is the rapid speeding up of the death of the Labour Party in areas it has come to take for granted

 

[tim]

I miss the good ol' days of whatever the fuck is happening in the first picture.

The first picture is of the victorious Tory candidate being carried through the town by his supporters and the concomitant reaction of the supporters of his opponents.

Humours of an Election - Wikipedia

 

[PR1Berske]

This by-election is really a microcosm of everything shit about UK politics isn't it?

Really is. It's become a concentrated theatrical site for all extremes to parade themselves and that just looks ugly from start to finish

 

[Orang Utan]

Galloway has a future in panto

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Galloway has a future in panto

oh no he doesn't

 

[kenny g]

The first picture is of the victorious Tory candidate being carried through the town by his supporters and the concomitant reaction of the supporters of his opponents.

Humours of an Election - Wikipedia

Thanks for that. Didn't know about the calendar changes of 1751 previously.

 

[JTG]

The first picture is of the victorious Tory candidate being carried through the town by his supporters and the concomitant reaction of the supporters of his opponents.

Humours of an Election - Wikipedia

They still do that in Bridgwater, or at least did until relatively recently. I certainly remember Tom King being given a chair through the town whenever he was reelected

 

[Puddy_Tat]

labourlist reporting that labour activist/s attacked today

Violence and "dirty tricks" in Batley and Spen by-election campaign - LabourList

The Batley and Spen by-election campaign has turned violent this weekend, with at least one Labour activist being…

labourlist.org

 

[two sheds]

Have we had this?



fuck me mealy mouthed tory wannabe

 

[brogdale]

Have we had this?



fuck me mealy mouthed tory wannabe

‘Kinnel

 

[Calamity1971]

Have we had this?



fuck me mealy mouthed tory wannabe

I hope those sirens are coming to take the knacker away.

 

[two sheds]

"magic money tree" is like "double whammy" only tories say these things

 

[brogdale]

"magic money tree" is like "double whammy" only tories say these things

Under spaffer, even they don’t use that anymore

 

[kenny g]

She is channelling one of the most ineffectual and disastrous Tory PM's of the past one hundred years in her response. Asked a simple question her response is to quote a Tory. I am surprised she didn't start accusing OJ of shouting at her.

 

[andysays]

They’ve voted for the lawyers and doctors all their lives and they’ve delivered next to fuck all. This isn’t a pro Tory rebellion by the working class, it’s an anti labour rebellion: Scotland, the deindustrialised towns of the north, Midlands and Wales and now places like Batley. All gone. None coming back soon

I'm not entirely convinced by this.

It's one thing to say "I've voted Labour forever, but I'm not voting for them again".

It's something else to say "I'm going to vote Tory". That can't be explained simply by the fact that Labour are shit.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Have we had this?



fuck me mealy mouthed tory wannabe

Can't say I'm surprised. Just another red tory, which all Labour MP's and councillors turn out to be anyway.

 

[brogdale]

n

I'm not entirely convinced by this.

It's one thing to say "I've voted Labour forever, but I'm not voting for them again".

It's something else to say "I'm going to vote Tory". That can't be explained simply by the fact that Labour are shit.

Yeah, I don't think it is entirely plausible to cast this, and recent by-election results and voting patterns as being a binary "anti-Labour" but not "pro-Tory". The psephological evidence is there; growing numbers of our class are voting for the tories.