Such an important by-election for the main protagonists and Reform choose Robert Kenyon.  Incredible really.

Dunno man. Maybe pick the guy who isn't capturing all the attention with his misoginy, Putin-loving and weird tin-foil ideas. Maybe just see if you've sorted your vetting out after all these years and pick someone who doesn't do that.

Anywon good at maffs can work out how many refuk got

I have no idea what you are on about. You've reeled off the liberalist checklist. 'Putin-loving'. How have you deduced that, for example?

More riddles

Reform price was coming in a little over last couple of days but now drifting right out again. Restore eating into their vote?

That'll work, as burnham is one of the liberalist types that thinks people can switch genders. Not something that typically goes down awfully well above the watford gap. Vorderman is also certifiably nuts

It's been happening for over a decade. Like the brexit vote never even happened :)

Focus on who can best fight poverty and inequality and not drive it down faster and further like Reform will and that's Labour.  Farage only interested in his bank account.  Burnham will bring about the Zucman tax imo, unlike Starmer.  That's why it's such an important by-election. 

I'd sooner vote Lib Dem or Tory if they manifestoed a wealth tax, but this country is royally fooked without it and no sign of Lib Dem's doing it and no chance of the Tories.  And I can't vote Green even with a wealth tax.  I voted Labour for the first time ever at the local level.  This was just because they had the best chance of beating Reform.

Burnham has no mandate for anything, save for Labour's wafer thin manifesto. In any case, your quest for a wealth tax is very marginal, most people have grown out of gcse politics. This by election has nothing to do with that. It's upside down, a continuation of the sh11t show, from a failed national politician. burnham has advantages over starmer, he is much better at hiding how much he hates us, and can string a few sentences together that someone hasn't written down for him.

I don't care about my own politics when it comes to betting. I would be backing burnham if I thought he would win easily. For me it's genuinely tough to work out the incentives. Boris was easy, his brand was bigger than the Tories. I suppose it comes down to that really, is burnham's brand bigger than labour. The media repeatedly tells us it is, but I am not convinced.

The reason I don't like Reform is because they are run by wealthy billionaires conning the working class white to vote for policies that will line their own pockets, but more importantly drive down the life chances of 80-90% of the population.

Trickle down economics is utter b/s.  We've seen from the last decades it doesn't work.  It's fair enough believing it works in the 90s, but the evidence of the last 30 years is clearly it doesn't work and only benefits the very wealthy

It's important to fight against corruption.  There's corruption in all political parties, but corruption is fertile where inequality of power is unabated.

The "Zucman tax" is an internationally coordinated wealth tax standard proposed by French economist Gabriel Zucman. It requires individuals with over $1 billion (or locally, more than €100 million) in wealth to pay a minimum annual tax equal to 2% of their total assets, effectively closing loopholes that allow the ultra-wealthy to pay little or no income tax

How It Works: If an eligible individual already pays an amount equal to or greater than 2% of their wealth in income taxes, they owe nothing additional. If their current tax burden is less than 2%, they pay the difference

absolutely nothing to do with the Makerfield vote.

Restore are even more openly racist.

Surprised the forum hasn't gone full fat version, yet.

UK - By-Elections -- Makerfield - Restore Britain Vote Percentage

9 Runners            £1,400 Matched

			108.9%		92.6%
Less than 5%	5.3	6	6.2		6.6	6.8	7	£473
	£42	£62	£50		£2	£10	£20
5-9.99%	2.6	2.62	2.7		3.05	3.1	3.15	£470
	£5	£2	£1		£7	£21	£5
10-14.99%	4.3	4.4	4.7		5.2	5.3	5.5	£69
	£2	£3	£1		£12	£10	£98
15-19.99%	6.2	6.4	6.6		8.6	8.8	9	£66
	£10	£15	£15		£4	£2	£11
20-24.99%	8	11	11.5		18	18.5	21	£80
	£50	£19	£6		£1	£3	£2
25-29.99%	17.5	18	20		27	32	34	£95
	£4	£3	£1		£2	£1	£2
30-34.99%	36	42	44		60	70	75	£54
	£5	£1	£2		£2	£1	£2
35-39.99%	44	46	48		60	75	95	£42
	£11	£4	£1		£2	£2	£1
40% or more	55	60	80		85	100	110	£51
	£2	£5	£1		£1	£2	£1

That's £4m for a whole political party with 250,000 members, whereas the man of the people Farage got a £5m donation just for himself

That's all right then

You people are something else. Hypocrisy incarnated.