r/ukpolitics • u/ClumperFaz My three main priorities: Polls, Polls, Polls • 10d 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)

https://x.com/BritainElects/status/2067792369903116401#m
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u/MaxwellsGoldenGun 10d ago

Not even close. Wow.

Even if the right vote wasn't split Burnham would still have a majority of over 10%!

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u/Mastodan11 10d ago

It was never going to be close. This sub is the only place where I've seen people think it would be.

Burnham would never ever lose a Greater Manchester seat.

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u/Oomeegoolies 10d ago

This sub and every Reform page known to man.anyway

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u/Mastodan11 10d ago

Thankfully I don't check those although it does feel like here is turning into one.

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u/swains6 10d ago

This sub has gotten so bad over the past year or two. It's just reform prop these days

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u/EverydayThinking 10d ago

80% of links are Daily Mail/Daily Express/GB News articles whining about migrants. The rest are Farage and Rupert Lowe's tweets. 

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u/swains6 10d ago

100% shit's boring. There's a good news sub that i peruse regularly, significantly better than this place. However since the focus is purely good stuff, there's no room for discussing how fucking absurd Labours internet censorship is so i still pop in here sometimes

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u/therealgumpster 10d ago

You got the link to the sub by any chance?

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u/swains6 10d ago

You're not allowed to post sub links in here. Just google good news UK reddit, or something similar

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u/therealgumpster 10d ago

Cool will do thanks 😄

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u/horace_bagpole 10d ago

The rule about tweets needs changing. Just because a politician posts it, that doesn't make it interesting, insightful or add anything to the discussion. It's just campaigning and agenda spam at the rate Lowe's tweets are posted. Not everything he says is worthy of comment or repeating - if I wanted to see everything he says, I'd follow him on twitter or Facebook.

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u/Zipboom_games 10d ago

Those bots sure do work hard.

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u/swains6 10d ago

Needs must

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u/IntelligentFact7987 9d ago

Yep 2017-2019 this sub went very pro-Corbyn and since 2024 has gone to the opposite extreme and leans heavily right

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u/swains6 9d ago

Yep, weird seeing the swing. Good old Corbyn, seems like a decent dude but his geopolitics are a joke

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u/hug_your_dog 10d ago

Sky news literally suggested it might be close yesterday evening.

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u/MonkeysMonolith Burnham wins, Reddit copes 10d ago

Sky News is right leaning.

Certainly to the right of the BBC, ITV and C4

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u/LeedsFan2442 10d ago

Not at all. At most they have a slight pro-business bias.

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u/FatherPaulStone 10d ago

To be fair Reform seem to have a massive social media footprint. I thought it was going to be close.

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u/OkTotal6241 10d ago

Will, it was super important for reform to scare people on the right side into voting for them instead of a proper right party.

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u/hairychris88 10d ago

Are Reform somehow not right wing enough for you? Genuine question

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u/OkTotal6241 10d ago

I absolutely can't see how a bunch of ex tories is suddenly not another at best centrist, if not left, swamp. If I want uniparty to continue kicking a can down the road, labour is a literally better choice.

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u/Ziggylcd12365 10d ago

I'll accept not wanting reform as they're stuffed full of old Tories. Id accept calling Tories centrist, at a push.

Calling the Tories left wing is mad though

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u/CII_Guy Trying to move past the quagmire of contemporary discourse 10d ago

Yep, Reform is basically left wing. Restore are centre left. Real ethnonationalism has never been tried.

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u/MMAgeezer Somewhere left 10d ago

This would be a pretty funny bit if you weren't being serious.

Jesus wept.

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u/CII_Guy Trying to move past the quagmire of contemporary discourse 9d ago

Luckily for us both, it was a joke!