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Sutton could be one of those seats that even though the LibDems were third last time, the natural party for disaffected Tory voters to vote for is the LibDems. That happened a couple of times in recent by-elections, Shropshire North being the first one that springs to mind. If you compare the Shropshire North and Sutton Coldfield 2019 results, they are incredibly similar. Tory 30+K, Labour 12k, LibDems 6K. Now the usual caveats about by-elections obviously apply I've thought for a while that the LibDem vote share is rather unrepresented in the polls and its seats like Sutton that make me think that those undecideds don’t yet know which party for to vote Not-Tory in their constituency. This could also be one of those seats that they get wrong and call it for the wrong party I believe Best for Britain are going to be polling before they make their pitch as to which party they are going to recommend in each constituency about two or three weeks out from the polling day. It might work, it might not but it’s not inconceivable that Sweeney might win in Sutton, he certainly seems to be putting his pitch in the right direction anyway and in a way that the Labour and Tory candidate really can’t especially with regards to the shopping centre

I really do think it will happen. There’s another aspect to that poll that the Daily Heil are spinning like mad and that’s the 42% who aren’t decided on which way they are voting. The Heil claim that as hope for the Tories when the reality is nothing like that, they don’t know which non-Tory party they are voting to get them out in the main.

Yep, that’s absolutely where I’m at with it too

First MRP poll of the election campaign. It’s going to be a close run thing… between the LibDems and the Tory Party for the opposition jobs Also accounts for tactical voting which is definitely a first in this election and possibly ever

I read that as Dale Winton and thought you’d reached a new low

Me neither. Everything is either speculation by journalists or stuff she’s put in the public domain. Same with the other fella too No guarantees of anything being true at all

Who said they did? I thought it was her that announced this? There’s absolutely no guarantee that’s true

This is politics not Westminster politics. Politics the world over is all about this grubby back room stuff There are no rules that can prevent this nor should there be. Why? Because those rules will make things worse and would in themselves be anti democratic.

It always was a great compilation

Never sack the social media person Rishi, cheers me up every day.

Love this shit

Is there any evidence of that?

well more news on that front

Tory Aaron Bell, first elected in 2019 will no longer be standing in Newcastle-under-Lyme I've never known so many late withdrawals Anyone know how many they still need for a full slate as of now?

'But is now deselected because she publicly slagged off the party, told incomprehensible lies (banned from standing yet had no contact from the party) and threatened to stand as an independent candidate

Jesus, 1 micron

I actually own it it too. It’s on the Seven Seas limited edition double 7” in fact it might be he B side to the standard too but I don’t have that

I think you're confusing an awful lot of things here. It doesn’t matter what the Tories or the LibDems or any other party do, it’s not relevant to how the Labour Party conducts itself. All parties have purges to one degree or another but because the left (in general) is rather more ideological than a lot of he right they are very much more prone to a bit of Stalinist behaviour With regards to accepting Tories, that’s ok otherwise you’d be suggesting people who were once a member of one party rule themselves out from any other for life and that’s ludicrous. But once they’ve jumped ship they have to abide with the rules of that party, so you made a completely false equivalence there Which of the Labour Parties rules are you suggesting Rosie Duffield and Luke Akehurst have broken? FWIW I do think there’s a point regarding Coyle, he should have been out on his ear a long time since but it does rather mirror the Diane Abbott situation, being racist and being sent on a racism course, she should have been banned from standing (but isn’t - yet) Of the two currently deselected Labour candidates only one of those appears to relate to politics, the other seems to relate to complaints made about behaviour, his politics don’t seem relevant to the issue

Scored two decent tickets for Bill Ryder-Jones and Gruff Rhys at the end of November. Thats missus birthday present for next month sorted

Man scorned …

Entirely predicable but amusing meme that may run for a while (but can’t hide)

Yes but I have a feeling they were Ukrainian made Neptune missiles on this occasion In other news, Germany just followed Biden in declaring their weapons can be used on Russian soil. That one is a bit of a shocker!

Anyways, this was just on, sublime and Scratch at the controls…

Worst song they ever recorded and I was there somewhere. Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool on Crystal Day recorded for that Ch4 series Play At Home

Even Piers Morgan came across like a raging lefty on the National Service topic