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13 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

LEAVE has won the Peterborough by-election.

 

Labour's Lisa Forces won on 10,484 votes.  She campaigned on a platform to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit. In second came the Brexit party, on 9,801 votes. 

 

Remain voters gave their vote to the Liberal Democrats, champions of austerity for the poor. They gained 4,159 votes.

Hahahahahahahaha

 

Funniest post of the year so far

 

Wetherspoons opens early. Go and drown your sorrows

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1 hour ago, Car Boot said:

LEAVE has won the Peterborough by-election.

 

Labour's Lisa Forces won on 10,484 votes.  She campaigned on a platform to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit. In second came the Brexit party, on 9,801 votes. 

 

Remain voters gave their vote to the Liberal Democrats, champions of austerity for the poor. They gained 4,159 votes.

If Labour wanted Brexit you would have had it by now. It isn’t the minority of Tory MPs stopping it. It is Labour. Labour are the main obstacle to Brexit. 

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1 hour ago, Car Boot said:

LEAVE has won the Peterborough by-election.

 

Labour's Lisa Forces won on 10,484 votes.  She campaigned on a platform to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit. In second came the Brexit party, on 9,801 votes. 

 

Remain voters gave their vote to the Liberal Democrats, champions of austerity for the poor. They gained 4,159 votes.

And there was me thinking that you had no sense of humour. Thank you for brightening my morning 😀

 

Of course, results like this are complex,  but at first glance it would seem to be a bit of a blow for the bonkers Brexiter brigade.

 

People’s vote anyone?

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1 hour ago, Car Boot said:

LEAVE has won the Peterborough by-election.

 

Labour's Lisa Forces won on 10,484 votes.  She campaigned on a platform to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit. In second came the Brexit party, on 9,801 votes. 

 

Remain voters gave their vote to the Liberal Democrats, champions of austerity for the poor. They gained 4,159 votes.

She actually campaigned on local issues of schooling and policing, and said so in her speech. There's more than one issue in politics and Brexit is a big one, but also people are fed up with discussing just that.

The split between the parties is interesting and Labours share did fall lots, but the split still gave them victory.

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11 minutes ago, Voice of reason said:

She actually campaigned on local issues of schooling and policing, and said so in her speech. There's more than one issue in politics and Brexit is a big one, but also people are fed up with discussing just that.

The split between the parties is interesting and Labours share did fall lots, but the split still gave them victory.

Indeed. Labour won but it wasn’t a great night for them. Like you say that had a strong, very locally-focused candidate.

 

The big lesson for the Brexit Party is they can’t just parachute any candidate in. They need to build into communities, and to be honest that is going to be very, very difficult for them in any sizeable town or city.

 

For remain parties the lesson is that the Brexit Party can be completely nullified using tactical voting.

 

The Tories.....when it comes to the crunch the lesson is their vote is going to be split most heavily.

 

Happy days. Looks like a way forward out of this mess.

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34 minutes ago, Voice of reason said:

She actually campaigned on local issues of schooling and policing, and said so in her speech. There's more than one issue in politics and Brexit is a big one, but also people are fed up with discussing just that.

The split between the parties is interesting and Labours share did fall lots, but the split still gave them victory.

That's the problem, the Brexit party don't have a manifesto or even pledges. Just a one trick pony, apart from the terminally obsessed people aren't interested in purely voting for brexit

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Time to dust this thread off:  Brexit Party ordered by Electoral Commission to account for donations

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party has been told to check all £2.5 million donated to it to ensure it hasn't accepted cash from foreign donors.



The Party will be required to satisfy itself that every single £25 'supporter' fee was not from an impermissible source.

If they can't, they'll have to either return it to the donor or hand it over to the Treasury.

Considering that the Brexit Party, as an incorporated company, must be able to do exactly that for submissions to HMRC and Companies House, you'd think "no problem"...but then, Farage has already said that they can't (for Paypal donations).

 

In a related development, the Electoral Commission is also to give evidence about digital campaigning to MPs in Parliament, under absolute privilege rules (that means no possibility of suits for libel/slander available to Nigel and chums :twisted:)

 

Popcorn's on order :D

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