Sibboleth
Labour
'Sit on my finger, sing in my ear, O littleblood.'
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Post by Sibboleth on May 6, 2024 18:32:18 GMT
As always I'd be a little leery of making the assumption that a General Election will be a sort of projected local election: turnout patterns will be completely different. Though clearly no room for complacency.
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CatholicLeft
Labour
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 6, 2024 21:53:10 GMT
Another good set of results for Labour where they were fighting the Tories, but the Blackburn seat looks vulnerable at the general election. Nope, far from it. The chances of Craig Murray winning here are far from reality. As awful as what is happening in Gaza is, most people in Blackburn won't vote on the issue, including a large number of Muslims.
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European Lefty
Labour
Can be bribed with salted liquorice
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Post by European Lefty on May 6, 2024 22:41:53 GMT
People often use local elections to protest against their normal party before going back to them at the GE and previously used European elections for the same purpose. The Tory vote on this forum is a very good example!
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mrtoad
Labour
He is a toad. Who knows what a toad thinks?
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Post by mrtoad on May 8, 2024 9:44:47 GMT
Blackburn town was - to me - the worst single bit of the local elections for Lab but it was counterbalanced by Lab gains from Con in Darwen - which with Rossendale would have produced a healthy majority in that parliamentary seat. A microcosm of this set of local elections in a certain class of seat - solid Lab gains from Con in the marginal wards and some previously safe Con wards, implosion in formerly 'safe' territory (see also the map of Hastings). Hence increasing efficiency of Labour's vote distribution as long as it doesn't go too far (as it did in the locals in both Blackburn and Hastings, but surely won't in a GE).
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