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Batley and Spen by-election

Turnout was 28% down which doesn't explain why Leadbeater's vote share fell by 41%, or why that was 10% (of popular vote share) worse that the Tories decline.

Not sure why those observations appear to be so controversial.
Because your psephology is shit (and your comments have more than a hint of sexism).
 
Because your psephology is shit (and your comments have more than a hint of sexism).
% falls in vote share compared to fall in turnout are hardly psephology, tbh...it's pretty basic observation.
As to a "hint of sexism", I'd be happy to correct/apologise for, if you can point to a specific example that you've seen.
 
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Not going to comment on the former, but I'd be interested to see a concrete example of the latter
There’s a ‘silly woman’ tone. The outrageousness of a woman being happy she unexpectedly won, the ignorance of what she’s done for the last five years (despite it being very well advertised during the campaign being studied). Best of sticking to her lack of politics. Imo.
 
There’s a ‘silly woman’ tone. The outrageousness of a woman being happy she unexpectedly won, the ignorance of what she’s done for the last five years (despite it being very well advertised during the campaign being studied). Best of sticking to her lack of politics. Imo.
If that's really all you've got to demonstrate your accusation, you'd be better off sticking to just saying brogdale's psephology is shit.

IMO, obviously.
 
Fortunately don't think Leadbetter went as far as a pact with a demon to win the lottery

 
Video below, transcript given from my rusty audio-typing

"A lot of bilge has been talked about the by-election in Batley and Spen. And it's not difficult to see why. A deluge of fake news has spewed out of the fake news industry, otherwise known as the lamestream media. Almost every word of it is a lie, some of it is the reverse of the truth, and all of it will come out in the court action that I have launched, to have the result of the by-election set aside.

Not because I'm claiming I won it. Although some observers at the count are very clear that I was winning it, until a large and well, frankly er....unprovenanced...er... number of votes were brought in and shuffled onto the table. But I'm not claiming that I won it. Neither do I want it set aside so that I can be a candidate in another by-election, for I will not be."



 
If there's someone out there who can puncture the Galloway bubble of self importance and make him listen, they could do a lot worse than remind him of how Giuliani's career and reputation are going. That speech above is almost word for word a Giuliani speech, and could only be more embarrassing if delivered from the car park of a landscaping business next to a sex shop.
 
Fortunately don't think Leadbetter went as far as a pact with a demon to win the lottery

Did he win?
 
Did he win?
So sadly not. I remember when I was doing the lottery in Hatfield I went into Asda once and thought God had given me the numbers. Fortunately I wasn't minded to kill anyone but I was in the middle of some very confused magical thinking - had just read Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
 
So sadly not. I remember when I was doing the lottery in Hatfield I went into Asda once and thought God had given me the numbers. Fortunately I wasn't minded to kill anyone but I was in the middle of some very confused magical thinking - had just read Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
A finer source of psychosis than the Harry Potter dirge that occupied people close to me when falling down their rabbit hole.
 
A finer source of psychosis than the Harry Potter dirge that occupied people close to me when falling down their rabbit hole.
I remember going mental when I lived in Hackney at the time of the evil invasion of Iraq because the only book anyone was reading on the buses was Harry Potter. I have since watched little bits of the films and don't hate it with such a violent passion.
 
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