ed wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:15 pm
Nick wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:59 pm
And what are we going to call The Peoples' Republic Of South Yorkshire now that hell has frozen over?
how about "Tory scum"?
go steady, the ground is not that firm round your way......
lab -6.6
tory -1.0
brexit +6.1
lib +2.7
green +2.0
I'm still wondering if everywhere north of Doncaster is still trying to vote maggie out(except all those socialists that have just voted to get brexit done)
strange times indeed
Its almost as if people are used to voting for tv dancing shows, and they don't think it will have any real effect on their lives. I mean, what did the people who voted brexit in the above list of swings expect would be the result of their votes.
Its a horrible venn diagram between leave/remain left/right. It was a simple answer for Boris, he had already got rid of most of the remain tory members and the majority of tory voters were remain anyway, so standing on a tory/remain ticket was clearly optimal. But given that slightly more labour traditional voters voted remain than leave (but this was not spread uniformly across the seats) then neither a labour/leave or a labour/remain ticket would gain more than 50%-60% of their traditional vote. So they tried a labour/"we will let you chose again later" platform which failed.
Farage provided a "none of the above"/leave option which which was good enough for the folk who wanted a "not the tory's"/leave option, but that combined with first past the post turned it into a vote for the tories.
People were clearly more attached to their referendum choice than their political choice. What happens next could be interesting though once we have left the EU for some value of leave and Boris becomes the tory/null position again.
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.