UK By-elections thread, 2021-

[njwes]

Given the by-election that occurred on the 25th for the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, I was curious:

Is there any real difference among the different parties' Commissioner candidates in terms of actual positions/agenda/ideology etc? Particularly the Labour candidates versus the Conservative candidates. Or is the party label sort of incidental?

[njwes]

Not sure there’s anything more insufferable than watching Lib Dem’s and Labour activists argue over who is actually best suited to winning this by election.

Equally hilarious to see either side try to climb the high ground.

By default shouldn't the answer at this point always be Labour? The LibDems seem sad and dying at this point--like, even if they were to win, who cares? They're not the future