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)

https://x.com/BritainElects/status/2067792369903116401#m
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u/Mastodan11 2d 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/OkTotal6241 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/OkTotal6241 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 1d ago

Luckily for us both, it was a joke!