Tories Lose Chesham and Amersham

The Conservatives seem to have written this off as a one off HS2 protest. This and their loss of St Albans just along the M25 in the GE is a sign that the Tories under Johnson are not to the liking of the Home county shires.
 
It's all over the media, I live down south, I've heard moaning from locals that the blue wall is getting everything now
Me too, a lot of Dorset locals having a proper whinge on about it. While my hometown is finally getting the investment it so badly needed. Honestly, the level of why, why aren't we getting that investment staggers me. They've had it 30 years, that its almost become expected. Its daft.
 
It's all over the media, I live down south, I've heard moaning from locals that the blue wall is getting everything now
It was inevitable, plus the south has more to lose from Brexit because it is less on its knees than most of the north.

Mind you £25m here and there in the North to give a few town centre railings a lick of paint and a bit of new block paving won’t suddenly transform the prospects of the local economy, no matter what the Poolies think.
 
It was inevitable, plus the south has more to lose from Brexit because it is less on its knees than most of the north.

Mind you £25m here and there in the North to give a few town centre railings a lick of paint and a bit of new block paving won’t suddenly transform the prospects of the local economy, no matter what the Poolies think.
The poolies are too busy fighting the brexit war and celebrating those extra food banks
 
The seats that were lost were mostly those of deserters from other parties who joined in 2019. Jo Swinson also lost hers. The LibDems' vote share went up to 11.5% from 7.4% in 2017.
Didn’t they lose most of their seats?., and their leader went quicker than summer snow
 
The seats that were lost were mostly those of deserters from other parties who joined in 2019. Jo Swinson also lost hers. The LibDems' vote share went up to 11.5% from 7.4% in 2017.
Votes are no good if you don't win seats, Thatcher never won more than 49.5% of the electoral vote but she won three elections.
 
would be typical of 'the north east' to go blue when the rest of the country is turning Red.

since the last great war 'the south' have never had it so good and importantly they want it to stay that way.
Dominics cummings touches on it today. Same happening in America. Conservatives are holding the views on less educated people as they have become populist/nationalist and tapped into vote leave.

more educated people now want progressive politics, so they will look away from the tories. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in other bi elections
 
The LibDem vote didn't collapse in 2019, as claimed above, despite a stupid and self-defeating campaign.

At the moment the LibDems support Universal Basic Income (as do Greens and SNP), which is surely a touchstone of "leftishness".
Ye the clue is in liberal……
 
It was hard to tell if you were bulling up Thatcher or making a point about FPTP, but do agree the voting system is flawed whoever is in.
I was making the point that increasing your vote percentage means nothing if it doesn't result in seats won. It's the equivalent of having most of the possession in a game and getting beat,(hi there Boro).
 
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