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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
    Labour has to strike an awkward balance on a number of issues and somehow shake away from that Metropolitan big inner city look, if they don't more results like like Tiverton and North Shropshire will move to the Liberals ..

    Its worth bearing in mind you can get these types of protest votes , what voters do in By Elections , Council , Regionals , Mayor , Brexit elections can be very different in an General Elections , Liberals have been here before ...

    I'm sure during the Blair run up Labour were very much far ahead of the Tories around this time of the election cycle ??

    What each party lacks is an election campaigner like Johnson , lover or hate him he does have that knack for some reason he appeals and turns head either in anger or support , if he was walking down your high street for some bizarre reason folk would come out point , shout , cheer , have a selfie , can't see many doing that for Ed Davey or Kier ?? ...
    Johnson was booed in public a few weeks ago, as he walked in to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee ceremony.

    I can't see him getting cheered in the high street at the moment, if he can't even make 10 seconds there.

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
    Labour has to strike an awkward balance on a number of issues and somehow shake away from that Metropolitan big inner city look, if they don't more results like like Tiverton and North Shropshire will move to the Liberals ..

    Its worth bearing in mind you can get these types of protest votes , what voters do in By Elections , Council , Regionals , Mayor , Brexit elections can be very different in an General Elections , Liberals have been here before ...

    I'm sure during the Blair run up Labour were very much far ahead of the Tories around this time of the election cycle ??

    What each party lacks is an election campaigner like Johnson , lover or hate him he does have that knack for some reason he appeals and turns head either in anger or support , if he was walking down your high street for some bizarre reason folk would come out point , shout , cheer , have a selfie , can't see many doing that for Ed Davey or Kier ?? ...
    Think most people in the majority of high streets would tell him he's a fat lying chancing charatan with no morals, shame or scruples tbh

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
    There were massive campaigns to vote Labour in Wakefield and Lib Dem in Tiverton. All these results tell us is the people are sick of the Tories.
    Exactly, there is some desperate reaching going on in this thread.

  4. #4

    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by DryCleaning View Post
    just bear in mind that the last time the LibDems were king makers, they gave the Tories first crap at forming a government on the premise that the Tories had more seats and votes. For a change of government, Labour may have to have a majority
    I think the Lib Dems have learned the painful lesson that bed sharing with the Tories does them no good. I can't see them making the same mistake again in a hurry. They would find a centre left Labour party a much more natural fit.

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dorcus View Post
    I think the Lib Dems have learned the painful lesson that bed sharing with the Tories does them no good. I can't see them making the same mistake again in a hurry. They would find a centre left Labour party a much more natural fit.
    Labour were very much a centre left party in 2010 yet we know how that turned out. Power corrupts.

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by DryCleaning View Post
    Labour were very much a centre left party in 2010 yet we know how that turned out. Power corrupts.
    Clegg chose against propping up a tired government that had been in power for more than a decade and chose a Cameron-led party flirting with them on a centre right agenda.

    The idea that the Lib-Dems would play power brokers in favour of this tired populist government in the event of a hung parliament is laughable. The Tories either get a a majority in the next election, they have enough DUPpers to keep them in power or they are out!

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    Clegg chose against propping up a tired government that had been in power for more than a decade and chose a Cameron-led party flirting with them on a centre right agenda.
    And now Clegg is at Facebook pushing a specific agenda, which tells you everything you need to know.

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
    And now Clegg is at Facebook pushing a specific agenda, which tells you everything you need to know.
    Bit vague. What is the specific agenda that tells me everything I need to know?

  9. #9

    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    Clegg chose against propping up a tired government that had been in power for more than a decade and chose a Cameron-led party flirting with them on a centre right agenda.

    The idea that the Lib-Dems would play power brokers in favour of this tired populist government in the event of a hung parliament is laughable. The Tories either get a a majority in the next election, they have enough DUPpers to keep them in power or they are out!
    The Tories were the biggest party as well in 2010 - wouldn’t be surprised if the DUP lose seats in the next election.

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    Clegg chose against propping up a tired government that had been in power for more than a decade and chose a Cameron-led party flirting with them on a centre right agenda.

    The idea that the Lib-Dems would play power brokers in favour of this tired populist government in the event of a hung parliament is laughable. The Tories either get a a majority in the next election, they have enough DUPpers to keep them in power or they are out!
    This is a good point and you may well be right. In 2010 I was surprised as anyone as I always thought the LibDems were centre left so it struck me as being bizarre they'd choose a centre right party over another centre left. Their rationale at the time was that the Tories had more seats than Labour so the people wanted Tories more than Labour. I don't think that's what their supporters wanted though but who cares as long as you get to be in power

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by DryCleaning View Post
    This is a good point and you may well be right. In 2010 I was surprised as anyone as I always thought the LibDems were centre left so it struck me as being bizarre they'd choose a centre right party over another centre left. Their rationale at the time was that the Tories had more seats than Labour so the people wanted Tories more than Labour. I don't think that's what their supporters wanted though but who cares as long as you get to be in power
    David Miliband, Clegg, Johnson & Starmer are all batting for the same team, so don't get confused by the party colours.

  12. #12

    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
    Exactly.
    Johnson and his motley crew surfed to Downing St. on the wave of Brexit mania nearly three years ago. That era has passed and seems aeons away now. He and his disciples look adrift in tumultuous seas. He's old hat now and for most people not up to the job.

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    Re: Tories lose both by elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dorcus View Post
    Johnson and his motley crew surfed to Downing St. on the wave of Brexit mania nearly three years ago. That era has passed and seems aeons away now. He and his disciples look adrift in tumultuous seas. He's old hat now and for most people not up to the job.
    Brexit was a con, sooner after it happened he was busy signing over powers to the UN and WHO. All planned no doubt, Boris is a globalist and he doesn't give a sh*t about the UK or the people in it.

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