Potential Mid Bedfordshire by-election, 2023

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

That has to be the longest resignation letter I think I have ever seen?

She has been working on it for three months tbf

 

[ouirdeaux]

All those place names look made up. Does nothing to assuage my suspicions that Bedfordshire doesn't exist.

I've been there. I think you may be right.

 

[tim]

All those place names look made up. Does nothing to assuage my suspicions that Bedfordshire doesn't exist.

I go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire every night.

 

[planetgeli]

Current boundaries, on which the election will be fought:


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That made me look up the constituency and the boundary changes. Because where I grew up we were always Mid-Beds constituency. Now, apparently not (and since 97 I learned). My town is on that map. But not in the constituency anymore.

You can see from the map how rural (and therefore Tory) it is. Look at the size of it, all those villages holding 1000 people or so. Then look at the boxed off Marsh Farm and Leagrave. That's all one constituency (Luton North)

 

[nino_savatte]

It's elected a Tory MP since the Stone Age (1931 actually). I was born there and it was no fun being a working class kid in a middle class shithole.

I grew up on RAF Chicksands and in Clifton (with a break in Meppershall). Yes, very middle class and very rural.

 

[Pickman's model]

Current boundaries, on which the election will be fought:


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You'd have thought the people of apsley end would try to take hexton and maybe lilley

 

[A380]

If you don’t know the area, Houghton Regis sounds like somewhere out of a Jane Austin novel.

It really really isn’t…

 

[GarveyLives]

This is getting surreal. She's refusing to resign but is welcoming the candidate they've chosen in her stead.

Surely, Festus Akinbusoye has only been selected as the Conservative Party candidate rather than having been selected as "the next MP for Mid-Bedfordshire" - unless Ms Dorries knows something that everyone else does not. Surely it is the constituents who select who becomes the MP?

In any event, he seems to bring the sort of background that would make him well-suited to follow in her footsteps:

Fake Newspapers and Struck Off Firms: The Conservative Candidate to Replace Nadine Dorries MP

(Source: x, formerly known as Twitter)​

"My view is that the Conservative Party makes things happen. The Labour Party talks about what is happening. In my business background, I get paid for what I deliver. I know black people in predominantly black areas who have tried to become counsellors and could not even get a look-in with the Labour Party. And they left to join the Greens or the Lib Dems. When I stood for selection, I was chairman of the Milton Keynes Conservatives but I was the only black candidate and I won on the first ballot. The Conservative Party wants to support you if they think you can win. When I stood for PCC I got 60,000 votes." (Source: GQ, 19 July 2021)

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[magneze]

I just see this:

 

[strung out]

I just see this:
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Works fine here.

 

[planetgeli]

I just see this:
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Elon Musk hates you. Be proud.

 

[PR1Berske]

I just see this:
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Oh. That'll be the Musketeer blocking access unless you're signed in.

Think that means we've solved the "no really, don't just post tweets" issue!

So, update, the writ was moved today so the by-election should be called for early October.

 

[danny la rouge]

unless Ms Dorries knows something that everyone else does not.

I think the usual situation is that everyone else knows something that Ms Dorries does not.

 

[danny la rouge]

Elon Musk hates you. Be proud.

He hates me too.

 

[planetgeli]

Oh. That'll be the Musketeer blocking access unless you're signed in.

I'm never signed in and I see all the twitter crap people post. I wish Musk hated me.

 

[strung out]

Oh. That'll be the Musketeer blocking access unless you're signed in.

It still shows even when you're logged out.

 

[magneze]

Elon Musk hates you. Be proud.

 

[magneze]

Oh. That'll be the Musketeer blocking access unless you're signed in.

Think that means we've solved the "no really, don't just post tweets" issue!

So, update, the writ was moved today so the by-election should be called for early October.

I like how the X is positioned exactly where an 'X' close button would be.

 

[BusLanes]

I see it's made the news. Some Labour MP has attacked the LDs for getting too personal by saying their boy is a councillor in London and some other stuff but does this mean he's getting worried?

 

[platinumsage]

Looks very close!

 

[SpookyFrank]

I predict another tory win and another sign that Starmer may be gearing up to somehow lose a general election that literally any warm body could win.

 

[brogdale]

I predict another tory win and another sign that Starmer may be gearing up to somehow lose a general election that literally any warm body could win.

Starmer is the tory win.

 

[tim]

I predict another tory win and another sign that Starmer may be gearing up to somehow lose a general election that literally any warm body could win.

CONSPIRALOON ALERT!
CONSPIRALOON ALERT!

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

If the Tories do hold it it would still be quite a stretch to see clinging on by their fingernails to a seat they had a 25k majority in as a sign they're likely to do well at a GE tbh.

 

[PR1Berske]

All by-elections have narratives, particularly so in safe seats because the turnout might collapse, or an indie might come second out of nowhere, or some other curious statistical quirk might happen.

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[PR1Berske]

Statement of Persons Nominated

Festus Akinbusoye (Conservative)
Sid Cordle (Christian Peoples Alliance)
Prince Ankit Love, Emperor of India (no ballot paper description)
Dave Holland (Reform UK)
Emma Louise Holland-Lindsay (Liberal Democrats)
Ann Kelly (Official Monster Raving Loony Party)
Gareth Mackey (Independent)
Chris Rooney (Mainstream)
Cade Sibley (Green)
Alistair Luke Strathern (Labour)
Alberto George Thomas (Heritage)
Alan Victor (True and Fair)
Antonio Daniel Vitiello (English Democrat)

 

[danny la rouge]

Prince Ankit Love Emperor of India

Is this: “Prince Ankit Love, Emperor of India” or “Prince Ankit, Love-Emperor of India”? We need to be told!

#PunctuationMatters

 

[PR1Berske]

Is this: “Prince Ankit Love, Emperor of India” or “Prince Ankit, Love-Emperor of India”? We need to be told!

#PunctuationMatters

Good point. I'll amend it. (They're also standing in Rutherglen and Hamilton West btw. At £500 a chuck it must be good money being an Emperor)

 

[A380]

Good point. I'll amend it. (They're also standing in Rutherglen and Hamilton West btw. At £500 a chuck it must be good money being an Emperor)

That's a risk, what happens if they win in both?...