UK By-elections thread, 2021-

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Lord Ashcroft poll shows Uxbridge and South Ruislip at 50% Conservative to 33% Labour.  Despite not jiving with national numbers it is interesting.  If Tories somehow hold it, may give them some hope and bad news for Labour.  Still I think based on national environment Labour will flip seat.

That poll (a week old) has been comprehensively rubbished by all serious observers, and is widely seen as a crude attempt at boosterism for Johnson (the VI question had him as the Tory candidate)

Lord Ashcroft faking polls to push a narrative? Who could’ve seen that coming from the esteemed tax cheat. A man who called the PM a pig er because he was denied a job in the Foreign Office? Lying?

In fairness I don’t think this is a ‘fake’ poll. Ashcroft’s polling has always been non-partisan - it’s just terrible. His polls are often very wrong but not in a consistent direction.

Either way there is no world where 18-29 voters in Uxbridge vote for the Tories in 2023 so it is fake/wrong. 

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https://twitter.com/CllrMcHuntSNP/status/1687433113784242176?s=20
Is this parody?

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Surprised Galloway hasn’t already thrown his fedora into the ring, tbh.

What has he been doing since his loss in Batley and Spen?

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Uh oh. Galloway says he's standing in Rochdale.

By my count this will be the eighth essentially different constituency he's been a candidate in.

How has his vehicle performed in local elections or has it been dormant since Batley and Spen?