Winseer:
To be fair, although I’m disappointed that Brexit Party didn’t win any seats, and I didn’t win any cash come to that - the voting patterns are well within the bounds of normality, not to mention standard deviation parameters.If there had been any actual “rigged” ballots this time around (bearing in mind Peterborough went Blue this time) - then some Labour Safe Seater nasties would have lost their seats…
From what I’ve seen, it is only the moderate majority nobodies that lost their seats though.
Jo Swinson - was widely tipped to lose to the SNP before the election. Even Money I believe…
What Brexit Party seem to have done in this election is “pull two votes away from Labour and one vote away from the Tory candidate”.
In the end, the Labour incumbent ended up falling past the Tory candidate “marking time” with their poll tally.Thus, seats ended up going from Red to Blue without the Tories actually gaining much of an upside vote swing measured as an absolute number, but rather than just as a swing AWAY from Labour causing Labour to fall past them outside the window…
If this was contrived by Boris and Farage working in cahoots behind the scenes, then I tip my hat to the both of them - because it seems to have bloody well worked as a strategy to “Breach the Red Wall”.
I’m not sure what plans Labour had to take 5-figure majority seats off the Tories in the south of England - something that BLAIR managed to do in 1997, and kept on doing in 2001 and 2005…
Trying to put myself in the mind of a Labour Strategist for a moment: I think I might have come up with an alternative Brexit plan outright, rather than just hope the Tories f— it all up instead.
Labour’s re-nationilzation plans - would have REQUIRED that we’d actually done a rather hard brexit BEFOREHAND of course.
We never EVER got to hear about the Labour version of a Hard Brexit though - did we?(1) Leaving the EU law framework straight away (tearing up all the treaties necessary) giving NI and Scotland a referendum to stay or leave the UK - only once the UK has left the EU beforehand.
(2) Re-nationalizing all the indirectly EU-owned utilitites by confiscation, likely triggering actual trade embargos by the EU…
(3) Ceasing payments to the EU straight away,
(4) Increasing electricity production in Newly-Nationalized Scottish Power/Generating capacity to make up the gap once the EU throws off that big switch in the sky they have…
(5) Being FORCED to trade everywhere else OTHER than the EU - because the EU won’t have anything to do with the UK from then on. Less trade with America, More trade with China and Russia, which we would expect of a Leftist government…
(6) Using the Brexit Dividend money to pay for Labour’s spending plans. £18billion per year for 5 years - would put a big dent in the headline spending figures…
Funny thing is, had Corbyn and Labour just come out with that plan above - I would have voted Labour for the first time in this election just gone..
But no. Labour - just cannot and will not get things done - and in the end, Boris has won big on simply that message.
When people like Starmer and Corbyn kept their seats and the obvious advantages to the EU of Swinesom handing hers to the SNP and Raab almost losing his not to the expected Labour second place but to an unbelievably co ordinated Labour tactical vote for the LibDems.While Skinner lost his and Goldsmith lost to a similar tactical LibDem vote as Raab almost did yes I’d say that was an EU instigated coup all done/almost done in an extremely clever subtle way that only the EU could have orchestrated.Possibly to the point of unlike your previous ideas the ballot boxes delivered to the counts weren’t even the same boxes at the polling stations.The fact is the result was effectively being declared by the media before the first count was in and Raab for one actually looked shocked that he’d won as though he was expecting a LibDem win and then too obviously stuttering about tactical voting,yes but ‘who’ could have possibly orchestrated a tactical vote of that magnitude.
While like 2017 the only possible reason for two elections in less than 4 years is the EU angling for a mandate to void the referendum result.Which as we’ll see in around a month or so has paid off just as intended,or at least almost as intended in the case of Raab who the EU obviously didn’t intend on winning.Prepare for BRINO and lots of establishment soundbites like having to unite the country and saving the Union from a Scottish and NI remain backlash when what they all really mean is the European Union not the UK.On that note it was ‘contrived’ by all of them Lib/Lab/Con/SNP/DUP/TBP with the EU big names like Juncker calling the shots from the side lines.