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Stephen Cole

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Jun 6, 2019, 9:38:33 PM6/6/19
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Labour win the Peterborough by-election, with an increased majority on a
smaller turnout. If the Brexit Party can’t win Leave-loving Peterborough in
a by-election caused by a Labour MP’s scandal mere days after acres of
press and media buzz over their EU election performance, then the Brexit
Party can’t win nowhere, ever. What’s more, with the amount of Tory voters
these charlatans are hiving off, it’s a nailed-on Labour landslide at the
next election.

I’m looking forward to EU Citizen Brian Reay’s temper tantrum in the
morning.

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Phi

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Jun 7, 2019, 2:41:58 AM6/7/19
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"Stephen Cole" <use...@stephenthomascole.com> wrote in message
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> Labour win the Peterborough by-election, with an increased majority on a
> smaller turnout. If the Brexit Party can’t win Leave-loving Peterborough
> in
> a by-election caused by a Labour MP’s scandal mere days after acres of
> press and media buzz over their EU election performance, then the Brexit
> Party can’t win nowhere, ever. What’s more, with the amount of Tory
> voters
> these charlatans are hiving off, it’s a nailed-on Labour landslide at
> the
> next election.
>
> I’m looking forward to EU Citizen Brian Reay’s temper tantrum in the
> morning.
>
> --
> M0TEY // STC
> www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur


It seems the electorate thought that local law and order was more important
than Brexit.

Spike

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Jun 7, 2019, 4:14:46 AM6/7/19
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On 07/06/2019 07:40, Phi wrote:

> It seems the electorate [in the Peterborough by-election] thought that local law
> and order was more important than Brexit.


The Labour Party candidate chose to avoid difficult issues such as
Brexit, and with considerable forewarning of the by-election the local
Party worked the seat mercilessly in terms of local matters.

The warning for both Labour and the Conservatives in the wider context
is that a party that only came in to existence a couple of months ago -
and therefore had little local data to call on - came to within a
whisker of winning the seat.

The Labour win, in terms of voter share, is very much short of that of
the 1997 General election that brought Blair to power. It looks like the
massive Labour effort put in to this by-election, which probably could
not be repeated across the country, is not going to result in any future
Labour 'landslide'.

"Despite the differing opinions across our city, the fact that the
Brexit Party have been rejected here in Peterborough shows that the
politics of division will not win," the newly-elected Ms Forbes said,
quite possibly ignoring the realities of the vote.


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Spike


Stephen Cole

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Jun 7, 2019, 4:41:18 AM6/7/19
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That’s a very interesting take, Burt, mainly because it shows how wildly
desperate your mob on the far right is to ignore the reality of Brexit not
being the most important thing in most people’s lives. Brexit is a fleeting
curiosity for our Nation, at best, and is becoming a weaker political
factor day by day as its cheerleading demographic continues to step over
into the void of The Big Sleep. Farage’s latest vanity project will eat the
Tories alive and ensure a radical socialist Labour government takes the
reins and puts this Brexit mess to bed before getting on with repairing our
social and economic system in favour of the many, not the few.

Incubus

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Jun 7, 2019, 4:51:37 AM6/7/19
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Amusing words given that Labour have used the politics of division for as long
as I can remember.

abelard

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Jun 7, 2019, 5:07:42 AM6/7/19
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she's a complete plank

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