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