Makerfield by election

[Racehorse-80s]

Tactical voting by Reform and Restore voters to get rid of Starmer won the day , Labour now set up nicely for a bitter leadership race .
Question time is going to be a jolly spectacle to watch .

 

[Stirlingsays]

So we’re finally agreed it’s a meaningless and childish insult then? Good.

It describes your progressive politics.

You're a progressive.

I'm a social conservative.

I thought you wanted people to have balls and own what they believe in.

How about you start with yourself.

 

[DanH]

It describes your progressive politics.

You're a progressive.

I'm a social conservative.

I thought you wanted people to have balls and own what they believe in.

How about you start with yourself.

No it doesn’t. It’s meaningless and petty drivel.

 

[HKOwen]

Nothing really worth seeing Burnham at a canter and the idiot plumber from Reform is an also ran. 😆 😆 😆

Pot kettle black

 

[HKOwen]

No it doesn’t. It’s meaningless and petty drivel.

It's not meaningless , Alan, it's a well known phrase.

 

[Stirlingsays]

No it doesn’t. It’s meaningless and petty drivel.

Asks for balls in others.

Has no balls himself.

 

[beak]

Watching Sky News the Newscaster to Reform's Tice; "your Candidate continually said Unacceptable things and had to apologise throughout the campaign,was he the right
person to stand"
A very perplaxed Tice: " He is a good Plumber"
What a good answer if the Palace of Westminster gets a leak he was going to be the right man for the job in all other respects he is a King Canute. Wonderful encapsulation of the Reform spirit.

 

[Badger11]

Tactical voting by Reform and Restore voters to get rid of Starmer won the day , Labour now set up nicely for a bitter leadership race .
Question time is going to be a jolly spectacle to watch .

I wouldn't read the result that way.

Labour won, quite why the locals want an MP who has no interest in being their local MP I couldn't say but the voters have spoken and will have to live with their choice.

 

[kevlee]

Interesting that twice now, and latest from Richard Tice on the radio earlier, is the suggestion that Restore are just the new version of the BNP. Richard Lowe is the 2026 version of Nick Griffin.

 

[georgenorman]

Your post saying Reform will win this comfortably continues to age well, Nostradamus.

Here's my lottery numbers for Saturday, 2, 13, 15, 27, 34, 45.

 

[Runningman]

I wouldn't read the result that way.

Labour won, quite why the locals want an MP who has no interest in being their local MP I couldn't say but the voters have spoken and will have to live with their choice.

Correction
WE (the UK) will have to live with their choice….🤬

 

[beak]

I wouldn't read the result that way.

Labour won, quite why the locals want an MP who has no interest in being their local MP I couldn't say but the voters have spoken and will have to live with their choice.

Andy Burnham is a local legend engendering a tribal loyalty not something southerners readily understand, He could have stood for the Greens or the Lib Dems and won at a canter. I would like my local M.P to be Prime Minister think of the clout the P.M. has far more than a bog standard M.P. Just to illustrate further we have an upcoming Mayoral election in Manchester IF Burnham warmly endorses the new Labour candidate he will win handsomely.

 

[NEILLO]

I wouldn't read the result that way.

Labour won, quite why the locals want an MP who has no interest in being their local MP I couldn't say but the voters have spoken and will have to live with their choice.

The quality, or lack of, of the Reform candidate handed it on a plate to Burnham.

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

This was a hand picked seat for Burnham to win. It's no surprise.

What is significant is that Restore took just over 3k votes. In a tighter race, that would mean the difference between Reform winning a seat and losing to Labour.

Perhaps it's time for Restore supporters to wake up and realise that they are in serious danger of giving us another Labour government. Now that would be the dumbest bit of self harm ever.

 

[Badger11]

Andy Burnham is a local legend engendering a tribal loyalty not something southerners readily understand, He could have stood for the Greens or the Lib Dems and won at a canter. I would like my local M.P to be Prime Minister think of the clout the P.M. has far more than a bog standard M.P. Just to illustrate further we have an upcoming Mayoral election in Manchester IF Burnham warmly endorses the new Labour candidate he will win handsomely.

Having an MP who is PM may be attractive for voters but not for me. I am voting for a guy who should be focused on our constituency but each to his own.

as for Manchester Mayor I don't doubt Labour will win it, it's the same as London a Labour stronghold.

 

[beak]

The quality, or lack of, of the Reform candidate handed it on a plate to Burnham.

Tice: "He is a good plumber".

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Tice: "He is a good plumber".

What's his number? A lot of them are fvcking hopeless.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

If it looks like a duck

But doesn't walk or quack like a duck

It's a dead duck

Starmer, you betrayed your party and the country. You should be hanged for treason

(Along with Boris Johnson)

 

[Spindle]

How did he betray you exactly?

He's met or partially met all the manifesto pledges except teacher recruitment and the tax on NI

 

[beak]

What's his number? A lot of them are fvcking hopeless.

Is your ball cock leaking? It's just your age.