Hartlepool Westminster by election

Amazing result if Hartlepool goes Tory

peter kay must be crapping himself with you around

Once a party becomes even marginally separated from that basic principle of democracy then it is very dangerous

Now don’t be arrogant kneeler Starmer and the Labour Party again , cheers

starmer - we should be 20 pts ahead or tories

corbyn - hold my beer

1	Jill Mortimer		Conservative	15,529
2	Paul Daniel Williams		Labour	8,589
3	Sam Lee		Independent	2,904
4	Claire Martin		Heritage Party	468
5	John Prescott		Reform UK	368
6	Rachel Sara Featherstone		Green	358
7	Andrew Michael Hagon		Liberal Democrat	349
8	Thelma Doris Walker		Independent	250
9	Chris Killick			248
10|Hilton Dawson		The North East Party	163
11	W. Ralph Ward-Jackson		Independent	157
12	Gemma Evans		Women's Equality Party	140
13	Adam Gaines		Independent	126
14	The Incredible Flying Brick		The Official Monster Raving Loony Party	108
15	David Bettney		Social Democratic Party	104
16	Steve Jack		Freedom Alliance, No Lockdowns, No Curfews	72

1	Jill Mortimer		Conservative	15,529
2	Paul Daniel Williams		Labour	8,589
3	Sam Lee		Independent	2,904
4	Claire Martin		Heritage Party	468
5	John Prescott		Reform UK	368
6	Rachel Sara Featherstone		Green	358
7	Andrew Michael Hagon		Liberal Democrat	349
8	Thelma Doris Walker		Independent	250
9	Chris Killick			248
10	Hilton Dawson		The North East Party	163
11	W. Ralph Ward-Jackson		Independent	157
12	Gemma Evans		Women's Equality Party	140
13	Adam Gaines		Independent	126
14	The Incredible Flying Brick		The Official Monster Raving Loony Party	108
15	David Bettney		Social Democratic Party	104
16	Steve Jack		Freedom Alliance, No Lockdowns, No Curfews	72

13 lost deposits

Great credit to independent Samantha Lee for a fantastic result, saving her deposit.

The overriding lesson from these results is that Starmer and so many on here are focused on issues which are not terribly important to the electorate. Issues which may be important in their eyes, but not in the eyes of the overwhelming majority of the electorate.

Do you Brits and US Americans keep the stupid tradition of voting on a Thursday to this day to make it harder for working people to vote?

no,if they moved it to the weekend less people would vote

Making someone who is a remainer, a BLM fan and totally unrelatable to working people head of the workers party was not a good idea.

Hartlepool


Tory plus brexit

Down from 22k to 16k


Labour

Down from 14.5k to 8.5k


Obviously lower turnout for
by election, as there usually
always is.



Huge loss, as any loss would have
been,.. But polling seems to have nailed
it, again!

May 7, 2021 -- 8:36AM, GAZO wrote:

no,if they moved it to the weekend less people would vote

Why would that be? Isn't it much cooler and easier to go for a 5 minute stroll on a Sunday whenever you wish than to go on a Thursday hastily before work or after a long day at work?

because most people dont really care who gets in

Yeah, so shouldn't they be even less motivated to go vote and potentially wait in a queue after a long, stressful day at work?

It would appear that the normal man or woman in the street doesn't give a toss about who paid for Boris' wallpaper

People can get a postal vote and have
15 hours to vote.

I don't think a Sunday vote
would change results by a huge
amount.

Hartlepool got 42.7% turnout
for by election, compared to
60% at gen election in 2019.

you just stop off on your way too or from work,yesterday i only voted because i had to walk past the polling station to go to a shop otherwise i wouldnt have bothered

I had 3 ballot papers
One of which I didn't care
about,.. Police commissioner

Then parish council (10+ votes) and county
council (2 votes)

So I could vote for 13 candidates
or so, but only voted for 5.

i would always go out of my way for a general election and usually for local elections but now the partys are pretty much the same and wouldnt have voted yesterday but for going past

Ok. I just imagine it being more of a bother to vote on a working day for the general public, but maybe that's just my biased view as someone from a country where voting is always on a Sunday.

As you say though, if you walk directly past the polling station (and you have enough of them so there usually aren't long queues) on your ways to and from work, then that's unproblematic too.

posy06 May 21 14:55Joined: 18 Oct 03 | Topic/replies: 13,961 | Blogger: posy's blog
Expect Labour about to be humiliated ; will Starmer survive the inevitable bloodbath ,that is the question

Might as well put the Labour party into receivership ;it's no use to man or beast.

Might be more hassle for some to
vote on a Sunday.

If workmates don't remind them
there's an election.

Non of the above wins by default.

Will Starmer survive after yesterday's results?

Twitter ablaze with corbyn
supporters who clearly do not
like Starmer, and did not
vote for him.

I can't see their vote anywhere
so guess they stayed home.

Can't see them voting tory!

I would have thought all Tory supporters want him to stay exactly where he is.. Staggering how Labour could have appointed someone so unelectable straight after Corbyn.

There's not a huge amount of talent in the reserves to select from.

wait until this time next year when no furlough and people find out how things are going to be paid for

From twitter...



Incredibly, TWO Northumberland seats were dead heats and decided by drawing straws. (Well, drawing names out a hat...)

One of them cost the Labour leader her seat, the other saw the Tories lose a seat to the LibDems.

Conservatives take overall control of Northumberland Council by one seat. This is the first time any one party has had an absolute majority since the authority was created in 2008.

What a way to decide an election, lol

Boris might get away with it if interest rates remain low and he keeps borrowing.

The problem for Labour will be they agreed with what Boris did with the lockdowns and other measures that crippled the economy.

If there is massive job loses Labour will also be to blame. It was caused by all MPs who waved Boris through.

1 more vote for Labour, and council
remain noc, every vote counts!

'if interest rates remain low and he keeps borrowing' thats just kicking the can down the road or abusing future generations

May 7, 2021 -- 9:43AM, GAZO wrote:

'if interest rates remain low and he keeps borrowing' thats just kicking the can down the road or abusing future generations

I agree but being doing that since 2008.

who would have thought that from a conservative government

Sir Keith Tory 2.0 what could possibly be going wrong..i still can't help laughing at this ffs the slow down of the backing track as well.

https://twitter.com/spoofed_uk/status/1389643995467366402

lol@ labour stalwarts on here blaming the results on it being on a Thursday / people not being bothered to vote or the most hilarious one of all " How do you think people are going to vote when they see furlough ending and who will pay for it". As if they will all flock to Labour, a party advocating longer/ stricter set of lockdowns where their main policies involve crying about what sofa is in Johnsons flat.. they're finished as a major political party or viable opposition for the forseeable future thanks to labour voters such as the cry of despair believing people give a sh1t about wallpaper etc dressing it up as a "scandal" while every one else laughs at what a pathetic rabble they are

Which labour stalwarts blamed the result on it being on a Thursday?

Starmer has alienated natural Labour supporters and centre-left moderates, such as myself, by ostracising Jeremy Corbyn.

Bring back Jeremy says Richie.
Labour are finished if thats the dream.

I miss "the SNP are finished" thread

I have no idea how either of the main parties are electable . Like selecting which turd you will be having for your evening meal .

I miss "the SNP are finished" thread

No doubt Trilby, who started the thread, would agree with you.
Would still be there if you lefties hadn't worn out your report buttons.

It had everything,passion,banter,cartoons and people getting things totally a$$ways.

Maybe you could start up a "labour is finished" one?

Do you still hear from him Aka? I miss him contributions too and hope he will be back.

May 7, 2021 -- 11:01AM, akabula wrote:

I miss "the SNP are finished" threadNo doubt Trilby, who started the thread, would agree with you.Would still be there if you lefties hadn't worn out your report buttons.

What happened to the sense of personal responsibility?

He was on utube but has now disappeared.
Left a forwarding address for me but the new site is for share/gold traders and not really my cup of tea.

Yes Trilby was a good poster Foinavon but I'm sure his recent ban is permanent.

Third ban is always permanent I think. Granti's third ban was permanent for sure.

Should just get together and form a twitter group with trilby. That's how I keep in touch with my Granti.

That's a great shame but he has been banned a few times so it wouldn't be surprising.

May 7, 2021 -- 11:18AM, edy wrote:

Should just get together and form a twitter group with trilby. That's how I keep in touch with my Granti.

They'll all be meeting up at the next national action conference

That's good too.

Well Keir, thats what going down the identity politics/woke route gets you.

as the Joker said, You get what you f**king deserve

A 10-story, 23-ton piece of a Chinese rocket will crash into Earth sometime over the weekend — but no one knows where.

labour HQ

Mar a lago, seems to be
its preferred target,

Tracking the bugs placed
in the vaxxes!

Cornwall: LAB gain Falmouth Arwenack from CON, and Falmouth Penwerris from LDEM.

Has the makings of a decent betting contest.

The word slaughtered comes to mind , Lets hope PP was not betting labour here

May 7, 2021 -- 1:09PM, casemoney wrote:

Has the makings of a decent betting contest. The word slaughtered comes to mind , Lets hope PP was not betting labour here

politicspunter • April 5, 2021 11:53 PM BST
If anyone is still up, go and back the tories in this asap at around evens before the poll comes out.

It was there in black and white.

Good man PP , nice to see a sensible post among the rest of the leftist shyte on here .

Reds potted by greens in Sheffield?

Hillsborough (Sheffield) council result:

Grn: 41.4% (+26.9)
Lab: 35.6% (-11.0)
Con: 16.0% (+9.1)
LDem: 5.6% (-4.6)
Oth: 1.4% (-1.5)

No UKIP (-18.9)

Grn GAIN from Lab

Starmer needs snookers!

Con gain Cockermouth!

Lib dems flop

Cockermouth North (Cumbria) council result:

Con: 41.3% (+11.4)
Lab: 28.0% (+1.1)
LDem: 21.0% (-18.8)
Grn: 6.9% (+3.5)
Ind: 2.8% (+2.8)

Con GAIN from LDem
More:

The north east has become more of a Tory stronghold than Surrey! Did you see the Teesside mayor result? 72% Surreal.

Mayor is a popular guy, so no
great surprise.

My view is simple: in the past decade, Labour has lost touch with ordinary British people. A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party. They mean well, of course, but their politics – obsessed with identity, division and even tech utopianism – have more in common with those of Californian high society than the kind of people who voted in Hartlepool yesterday. The loudest voices in the Labour movement over the past year in particular have focused more on pulling down Churchill’s statue than they have on helping people pull themselves up in the world. No wonder it is doing better among rich urban liberals and young university graduates than it is amongst the most important part of its traditional electoral coalition, the working-class.

A bit of superficial flag-waving – reinforced by urgent memos from party HQ – isn’t going to fix that. We have to recognise that the patriotism of these voters runs much deeper than that. They are more alert to rebranding exercises than spin doctors give them credit for. Their patriotism is about historic pride in their places, the heritage and stories of those places, and the Britishness and Englishness of the people and families that call them home.

ouch!

who wrote that cider

Khalid Mahmood, just resigned from the shadow front bench.

Khalid is describing a fair few on here isn't he, yet they cannot even see it no matter how many times they look at themselves in the mirror. Woke, virtue signalling types who simply call anyone with a different view racists and far right etc etc. They keep shouting it at every opportunity, that nobody falls for the utter guff they spout.

" A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party". Their leader in chief Corbyn on just now peddling the same old guff., FFF

FFS.*

Labour are currently being led by a knighted former lawyer... think that says it all

"Labour have lost the trust of the working man" < "sir" keir starmer, they've been spouting that rubbish almost since 2001 and yet nothing happens

Insanity...

working person surely?

'A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party. They mean well, of course, but their politics – obsessed with identity, division and even tech utopianism – have more in common with those of Californian high society'

They haven't just captured the Labour Party.

They have captured the entire western world.

They need to be put back in their box fast.

Giuseppe no your right it was "working people" my bad

"people kind"

indeed how could he possibly accept a knighthood if he had any intention of going into frontline politics ? a knight masquerading as a man of the people. come off it

The latest madness imposed upon our free world has been the reduction from £140 to a fee of just £5 to register as transgender.  lmao.

The working class no longer exists apart from a scattering of dinosaurs and dodos and in ten years it will be extinct. Ordinary people cannot be readily categorised apart from either being aspirational or wanting to be spoon fed by the State. The great majority thankfully fall into the former category and the party of Keir Hardie will be left with the shirkers and dregs and that will never be enough to gain power.

May 8, 2021 -- 3:33AM, LoyalHoncho wrote:

The latest madness imposed upon our free world has been the reduction from £140 to a fee of just £5 to register as transgender.

^ Why is it madness of the state to not unnecessarily rip people off in a free world?

Labour need a white working class man from the Midlands or the North anything else is tainted by political correctness. Like someone as already said the day an ex mining town votes for the tories tells you how far the Labour party have drifted off course.

"The working class no longer exists apart from a scattering of dinosaurs and dodos and in ten years it will be extinct."
There is a school of thought (and I can see why) that Marxists know this to be true do realligned.
I.e. That is why the goalposts are now moved to divide us all along every single line of "identity" they can dream up.

A society where everyone gets along is no use to marxists, it will simply die without the hate. Marxism lives on hate.
A society where everyone believes they are in whatever imagined group being oppresed by another group is Marxism page 1.
Sound familiar?

You sound like Thatcher and the middle call elites that is the kind of BS they talk, we the working class despite open attempts at passive genocide are still here and we are still the largest social group and who knows we might even wake up one day and say enough is enough and take back what is rightfully ours

Macarony my post was nothing to do with thatcher OR any sort of working class struggle, better or for worse.
My point was, due to changes in society that sort of "struggle" is hard to promote or dying so the academic marxists have now tried to move the "struggle" on.

So univerities are now full of airheads who 100 years ago would be filled with ideas of the worker power struggle, now it's Identity politics power struggles.

It's the same things, different labels.

Tories are pragmatic, it is as simple as that. Not driven by dogmatic ideology. New labour and Blair, whatever you think of them, won elections and managed to roll out their plans as they were pragmatic. For example JRM doesn't believe in gay marriage personally, however he appreciates that is no longer the mainstream view, it won't change, and doesn't try to change people into his way of thinking. Many of them don't believe in a generous state, but their new coalition does, so we now have a very generous state. I feel it is far too generous myself, but it's not the mainstream view. I can see why they have taken that approach. It's about time we saw some of the new Tories from 2019 in government.

Hartlepool likes voting for liars...

Just as Boris burnt Aileen Goster with his fake fairy-tale promises .... he probably do the same with this gullible lot. Which won't make any difference whatsoever cos they will vote him in again and again after being coerced by the 'brainwashing' newspapers.

'Up Democracy'.

"brainwashing newspapers", along with the "right wing media" getting the blame yesterday.

Comedy Gold.

The Labour party are now busy blaming each other. It is very telling that Oxford and Cambridge have resisted the Blue tide while those wealthy cities like Hartlepool and Cockermouth are leading it! The Tory heartland has moved to the places that would not have allowed a candidate to open his mouth 20 years ago.

I LIVE up here on teesside and quite happy to enjoy any fruits of so called tory revolution on teesside ,whilst always hating and never voting tory,
but i heard a dozen reasons from a dozen different people in hartlepool why they wouldnt vote labour  none made any sense and most complete contradiction,s ,
one said theres no police cell in ,pool and hospital,s a disgrace so i voted tory,he probably didnt no tory,s been in power  last 11 yrs
another said  they only care about metropolitan cities etc ,then said after 11 yrs of tory,s in power he had to travel to newcastle to work in sed metropolitan elite,
another said labour are remaining lefties and wants houchen to bring jobs like the treasury jobs in darlo to h,pool,so he wants a 1000 leftie,remaining civil servant jobs brought to h,pool,

i cant work out whether h,pool wants to remain h,pool of today or become a place like manchester,leeds,newcastle etc that they all seem to despise,if they become the prosperous well paid jobs town of the likes ben houchen says he wants,they,ll be attracting the sort of people in to the town they say they hate ,the likes of salford,altrincham were the h,pools 25 yrs ago

Lillian Bilocca would be turning over in her grave over this lot.....

A senior Labour figure told a meeting with the leader’s office that Angela Rayner was “dressed inappropriately” on a visit to Hartlepool. She was wearing leopard-print trousers, heavy-duty stomper boots and a hoodie.

to be fair i hardly recognised tracy babin with her clothes on

One of my wifes favourite twitter characters is called totes inappropes. I don't know her real name (totes that is) but apparently she turned up for an interview with a mini skirt on (she isn't a teenager) and the interviewer said it was "totally inappropriate", hence the twitter name. I won't be able to look at Angela Rayner now without calling her totes

Magic__Daps 08 May 21 18:47

"brainwashing newspapers", along with the "right wing media" getting the blame yesterday.

Comedy Gold

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We are the angry mob We read the papers everyday We like who we like, we hate who we hate But we're also easily swayed - Kaiser Chiefs 2007

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