Tiverton and Honiton by-election

[brogdale]

Election results to present.

Corbyn was popular in 2017.

 

[MickiQ]

The trouble with MP's going like this is that if the Tories get their asses handed to them come the by-elections (including the other one), they can blame everything on the incumbent. They can spin loosing the seat on the sitting MP's sleazy behavior not because there is is a massive CoL crisis reducing people to povety. Much better if they have the decency to have a heart attack.

 

[strung out]

They just increased their vote share by 15% in two minutes, that's pretty impressive.

Historical vote shares are in post 3!

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Not actually been to Sidmouth yet but considering going to the folk festival this summer

I think the folk festival (like so many things) used to be a bit more free and easy but isn't anymore. The late night pub sessions are what people really went for, but they don't happen like they used to (so I'm told). Went once, but it's not really my thing. A mate moved to Sidmouth after living away from Devon and hates the place. Another left Exeter for Sidmouth when he retired and lasted two years before he came back again and some other mates did four years before deciding that there was nothing there for their kids and upping sticks.

I'm not really selling it am I... apparently there's a good chippy.

 

[rubbershoes]

The corpse of Harold Shipman would be elected here if it had a blue rosette.

 

[alex_]

Funnily enough, I was up from Devon in the Surrey hills and stockbroker belt today. One of my constant laments at home is how everything is getting Home Countiesified. It's only once I'm in said region that I realise how far off that is. Been around the North Downs and it's jaw-dropping how many Tory signs there still are out and about given the current state of the fuckers.

That said, the Honiton and Tiverton seat was never one of those Lib Dem ones that used to proliferate around the south west, so my prediction is that the Tories hold this with a much-reduced majority. Too many died-in-the-wool blue rinse retirees sitting in Sidmouth and the like looking out for refugee boats in the channel. I bet they're all from Surrey too.

Will be interesting to see if Brexit is a declining issue and the smaller farmers and people in more working class towns like Tivvy return to the Lib Dem fold.

This assumes the tories actually vote though, could see a Lib Dem win on a much reduced turn out.

 

[tim]

This assumes the tories actually vote though, could see a Lib Dem win on a much reduced turn out.

I wouldn't be surprised to see footage of Sir Ed Davey spanking his little orange mallet in the Chamber.

 

[Hollis]

 

[Hollis]

Regarding the prospect of anyone other than the Tories winning this one - minimal.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

wonder how many of the other candidates will seek out photo opportunities with a tractor or two...

 

[stavros]

 

[mx wcfc]

 

[SpookyFrank]

Much of Tiverton was built as housing for mill workers. One major lace mill was set up by John Heathcoat after his original mill in Leicestershire got smashed up by luddites. The workers themselves had to walk from Loughborough to Tiverton to take up their new jobs. Meanwhile Heathcoat himself built a bloody great mansion high up in the Exe valley to the north of the town, so he could look down on his workers and his mill.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I was looking for a tractor but it auto corrected my search to "massive ferguson" ...

 

[tim]

I was looking for a tractor but it auto corrected my search to "massive ferguson" ...

Yes, nothing better than a massive Fergusson if you want to get your little budgie up in the air.

 

[Kaka Tim]

 

[WouldBe]

On the BBC, whilst he claims he accidentally clicked on a porn link while looking at tractors he admits to deliberately looking at porn in the HoC.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

On the BBC, whilst he claims he accidentally clicked on a porn link while looking at tractors he admits to deliberately looking at porn in the HoC.

Sue Gray needs some sort of bat symbol that Commissioner Dick or possibly Loaded magazine can shine on the side of Westminster when she's called for.

 

[Artaxerxes]

On the BBC, whilst he claims he accidentally clicked on a porn link while looking at tractors he admits to deliberately looking at porn in the HoC.

I believe his exact excuse was the first time was a mistake, honest guv.

Which means he enjoyed doing it so much he chose to do it again.

 

[steeplejack]

Never mind that, it’s not that far from the Cornish border. They could be across the Tamar in force to liberate the so called Devon region in days. And, do you know what? It would all be NATO’s fault.

Pro-Lukashenko candidate standing? CCHQ in Tiverton getting in a stock of Javelins & drones just in case…

 

[rubbershoes]

Much of Tiverton was built as housing for mill workers. One major lace mill was set up by John Heathcoat after his original mill in Leicestershire got smashed up by luddites. The workers themselves had to walk from Loughborough to Tiverton to take up their new jobs. Meanwhile Heathcoat himself built a bloody great mansion high up in the Exe valley to the north of the town, so he could look down on his workers and his mill.

You can still see the factory from the house. The house is now National Trust and is a gothic monstrosity

 

[JimW]

Pro-Lukashenko candidate standing? CCHQ in Tiverton getting in a stock of Javelins & drones just in case…

Carpet bombing Axminster.

 

[SpookyFrank]

You can still see the factory from the house. The house is now National Trust and is a gothic monstrosity

Lovely gardens though.

 

[rubbershoes]

 

[SpookyFrank]

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TBH Starmer looks like he's not had a wank in 30 years.

He looks like he's not gone for a shit in 30 years either.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Pro-Lukashenko candidate standing? CCHQ in Tiverton getting in a stock of Javelins & drones just in case…

Trago Mills is the Workers Party of Britain candidate standing for good British Cream Teas and White Russians.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I quite liked what I saw of Sidmouth, but then I live in Surrey.

 

[platinumsage]

And so it begins:

Three Hundreds of Chiltern

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.

www.gov.uk

Don’t expect the writ too soon though.

 

[Pickman's model]

And so it begins:

Three Hundreds of Chiltern

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.

www.gov.uk

Don’t expect the writ too soon though.

no one expects the writ to be done with expedition

 

[platinumsage]

no one expects the writ to be done with expedition

They’ve got nowhere to hide though - the chief whip ordering the speaker to issue a warrant to the clark of the crown to make out a new writ takes precedence over all other business in the commons.