Election Year or Fear!

[SithHappens]

Reform failing to win in Caerphilly was nice to see. Especially as they have been celebrating the win there for sometime.

Perhaps a warning to them that opinion polls don't always translate

[Geoff Parkstone]

Reform failing to win in Caerphilly was nice to see. Especially as they have been celebrating the win there for sometime.

Perhaps a warning to them that opinion polls don't always translate

Its an interesting result, obviously distorted by the Welsh-ness of having Plaid Cymru taking a lot of the defecting labour vote, so Im not sure quite what it says about how a bye election without the Welsh effect might go.

Con, Lab, LD and Green all cleaned out with Labour converting a 6k majority into a massive defeat. Not sure any of these will be happy, let alone Reform who perhaps would have been expected to win as the primary protest vote nationwide.

Its easy to be gleeful that Reform missed an open goal, but if I were the goalkeeper Id be even more concerned. I might even sit up and take notice but I doubt 2TS will, hes got a big enough parliamentary majority to ignore the mood of the nation - and Im sure will continue to do so - after all his Dad was a toolmaker, didnt you know?

[Andy_Faber]

Its an interesting result, obviously distorted by the Welsh-ness of having Plaid Cymru taking a lot of the defecting labour vote, so Im not sure quite what it says about how a bye election without the Welsh effect might go.

Con, Lab, LD and Green all cleaned out with Labour converting a 6k majority into a massive defeat. Not sure any of these will be happy, let alone Reform who perhaps would have been expected to win as the primary protest vote nationwide.

Its easy to be gleeful that Reform missed an open goal, but if I were the goalkeeper Id be even more concerned. I might even sit up and take notice but I doubt 2TS will, hes got a big enough parliamentary majority to ignore the mood of the nation - and Im sure will continue to do so - after all his Dad was a toolmaker, didnt you know?

I'm surprised Reform haven't made more of the massive vote swing - maybe they're learning to control their excitement. They (and the new Corbyn vehicle if it ever gets into gear) are certainly going to **** things up over the next four years.