Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election

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Her experience in crushing the disabled or help with something searingly anti-immigrant?

Regardless, she has government experience, is recognised by the public as a mainstream government minister, and Corbyn would have been directing policy anyway.
 
A "10% swing" certainly sounds better than "lost 4000 votes".

Meh, you're comparing a by-election in a super-safe seat on a cold December day to a general election.
 
Meh, you're comparing a by-election in a super-safe seat on a cold December day to a general election.
Well quite... and yet it is literally what Labour are doing getting all excited about a by-election in a super-safe seat on a cold December day by announcing, yet again, they are "back and electable".
 
People need to recognise that the Labour Party will never win a commons majority again. With the loss of Scotland, boundary reform and Johnson undermining our democracy, it's simply impossible. It isn't going to happen, no matter who the leader is.

The only way the Tories lose an election now is if opposition parties cooperate or assimilate (the latter option barely seems worth discussing; it's another thing that's never going to happen). All I see is factionalism, as opposition parties fragment into ever smaller and more fiercely defended cliques.

That means we're ******. When people want to get serious about ousting the most amoral, corrupt and authoritarian government in modern British history, the above recognition and contemplation is where they'll need to start. Unless people are ready to have that conversation, the best advice I can offer is to get out of this country if you have the opportunity and means.

Alternatively, people can continue fighting over who gets to be the king of nowhere.
Maybe not quite. Had Labour been decimated in Scotland in or before 1997 they would still have gained a majority in 1997 & 2001. But yes, such victories will be rare without a significant return in Scotland.
 
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