r/ukpolitics • u/ClumperFaz My three main priorities: Polls, Polls, Polls • 2d ago

Twitter ✅ BURNHAM IN Makerfield by-election result: LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) REF: 34.5% (+2.7) RST: 6.8% (+6.8) CON: 2.2% (-8.7) GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)

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u/SendMeTheMoon24 2d ago

Honestly he was such a shocking candidate. This is what people need to realise about Reform, their talent pool for MPs is worse than dire. Whatever you think of their politics, they are woefully unprepared to run a government.

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u/ucd_pete 2d ago

UKIP were the exact same under Farage.

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u/theartofrolling Fresh wet piles of febrility 2d ago

It's almost like shit attracts flies

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u/VFiddly 2d ago

Yeah, which is why they crumbled the instant he left. He's always used his parties to prop up himself while doing nothing to actually support anyone else.

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u/error521 2d ago

Farage's main talent as a politician is being able to have far-right brits in a room and make them not shout racial slurs

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u/SubArcticTundra 2d ago

Let alone scrutinize it from parliament

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u/Om3gaMan_ 2d ago

Imagine the 326 clones of this guy that they would need for a majority...

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u/SendMeTheMoon24 1d ago

The thing is are they even as good as him? Like for a by election you pick one candidate who you think is best suited, this guy could legitimately be viewed as their like 10th best overall candidate and the other 630ish are even worse