UK By-elections thread, 2021-

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They've started counting.

[TheTide]

https://twitter.com/LizzyBuchan/status/1471656755054657538?s=20

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Turnout 46%

[YL]

Turnout 46.3%. Not bad for December in a pandemic.

[Arson Plus]

"loyal Edward Timpson" lmao

[Arson Plus]

Also, the LibDems are claiming victory.

[Blair]

Turnout 46%

My hunch was that it seemed higher than expected and the Lib Dems briefed that they wanted higher turnout…

[Blair]

We should all remember this by-election is happening because Boris Johnson was too weak to say no to a bunch of dinosaurs on his backbenches who wanted to protect their mate.

[YL]

Claims of a “four figure majority” but I imagine not at the lowest end of that range or they wouldn’t be so confident yet.

[Torrain]

Via The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-north-shropshire-by-election-news-live-b1977753.html?amp

Lib Dems ‘confident’ about comfortable win

Christine Jardine, the Liberal Democrat’s treasury spokesperson, has said she is “confident” the Liberal Democrats have “won comfortably”.

For Boris Johnson, she says, “the party is over”.

Might be spin - but felt worth posting.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This would obviously be very, very funny.

[JerryArkansas]

Via The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-north-shropshire-by-election-news-live-b1977753.html?amp

Lib Dems ‘confident’ about comfortable win

Christine Jardine, the Liberal Democrat’s treasury spokesperson, has said she is “confident” the Liberal Democrats have “won comfortably”.

For Boris Johnson, she says, “the party is over”.

Might be spin - but felt worth posting.

That isn't spin, that's dancing on the grave.  They didn't do this earlier this year with a large majority.  Must be a big ass win for them to do this without them getting a sh**te ton of egg on the face from a defeat.

[TheTide]

Via The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-north-shropshire-by-election-news-live-b1977753.html?amp

Lib Dems ‘confident’ about comfortable win

Christine Jardine, the Liberal Democrat’s treasury spokesperson, has said she is “confident” the Liberal Democrats have “won comfortably”.

For Boris Johnson, she says, “the party is over”.

Might be spin - but felt worth posting.

Why would it be spin? The votes have been cast.

[Arson Plus]

Helen Morgan has a smile on her face.

[YL]

Could the swing rival Christchurch 1993?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Could the swing rival Christchurch 1993?

You know ordinarily even very disastrous by-elections don't matter much, but sometimes I suppose... certainly one would wonder...

[Arson Plus]

Declaration imminent

[YL]

Majority 5925

[#UnbanTender]

Close to a 6 thousand vote majority. My my

Swing: 34.1% to LD

[Arson Plus]

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1471696617950568452

[morgieb]

Not even close.

This is a seat the Tories should never have dreamed of losing. To say the result is catastrophic is an understatement.

[Sestak]

CAN WIN HERE

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not even close and with the Labour and Green votes not actually vanishing into thin air... oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[YL]

Could the swing rival Christchurch 1993?

Looks like 34.1%.  The Christchurch swing was 35.4%.  (No other Con to Lib Dem swings come close, even Newbury.)

Anyway, this whole by-election has been an entertaining Tory car crash from start to finish.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Anyway, this whole by-election has been an entertaining Tory car crash from start to finish.

Amazing stuff, quite unbelievable. I may very well be laughing as I type.