How the hell did labour pull that off

You. Love. To. See. It.

If that is reflected in a GE then my prediction of a Lab 30 seat maj is blown out of the water. I think it won’t be as consistent a swing nationwide but, especially with the SNP also struggling I am a lot less confident in my early call than ever.

Being stubborn though, I will stick to it. 30 seat lab maj!

There are ‘protest votes’ and there are protest votes……..

Do these grifters seriously think a winter of discount tents is going to make things any better????? Inflation as predicted is sticky. The economy is in the toilet. Etc etc etc 

537 to 29 if replicated in a GE ( thanks Nick Robinson)

Then you’d see some radicalism from a Labour government;)

gotta love that the re4m uk votes were critical in kicking the tozzas out

Bob McKenzie is swingometering from the grave, eh kids?

Bertha20 Oct 23 06:16

There are ‘protest votes’ and there are protest votes……..

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suspect a lot of Tory voters stayed home rather than protested, but it's still mental, lib lab split should have kept the tories in in both seats

Mid Beds is all down to Dorries treating the area like a fief and not showing up to work for a year 

Jim, wait, you were predicting a Labour 30 seat madge? Have you been seconded to the dark side of Mars precinct?

Wiki says the “major settlements” of Mid Beds include places called  “Ampthill” and “Flitwick”. LOL.

SKS really needs to get on the float in his spinning euro sign top hat and cruise dancin’ through the streets of, er, Ampthill. While, I think, the Football Cliches theme music blares.

An utter backwater, but Toby Litt's novel about growing up there is a cracking read iirc

‘537 to 29 if replicated in a GE ( thanks Nick Robinson)‘

That’s basically what I, laz, RR, oracle, FF, Davos etc have been saying for months.

Chairman confirms they're not dead yet. 

'We are not in the business of discussing a date for a general election. We are in the business of governing the country.'

Heh! The Liberals pulled out all the stops for Mid Beds and FAILED. 

general heh

Ampthill is quite nice. I went a wedding there once. Only time I've been to Beds, I think. 

XWP - I first made that prediction when Guy had a thread (a long time ago, before Truss I think) about how it was likely to be a hung Parliament. I confidently stated that Lab would win with a decent working maj - I.E. 30 seats.

I have stuck to my guns since then in a very stubborn attempt to be able to say “guess I called it” in true Risky fashion and I ain’t changing now.

You just left off a nought.

The only way Lab majjj is only 30 is if it turns out Beer Starfish blew up that hospital in Gaza.

Heh 

Lol at NR asking Greg Hands 4 times of partygate kids - 'Have you fired them?' = Paxo style

This is just absolutely lovely news for a hungover Friday morning.  

I'm taking the day off after the GE and staying up all night with a bottle of Glenlivet 15

if this is repeated at the GE- and if anything we can expect a further swing to labour between now and then - then it’ll be a case of LOLijg heartily at the 15 or so constituencies who still manage to elect a tory mp

“We are in the business of governing the country”

Give over m88, don’t forget we know you’re the conservative party.

there should be some kind of rule that if the sitting gov loses X by-elections then it’s an automatic GE