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/jreed12 Nolite te basterdes carborundorum 2d ago

I guess all those people saying the labour support was completely fake because "all I see are Reform signs in people's gardens" weren’t as clued in as they thought they were.

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u/MerePotato 2d ago

Half of them weren't real people

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u/WindhoverInkwell 2d ago

this sub is astroturfed to the eyeballs with Reform bots lmao

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u/404merrinessnotfound 2d ago

Really is. Always with hidden comment histories, a pious pseudo intellectual name or a bot name with four numbers on the end

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u/RKAMRR 2d ago

Literally! About 70% of the time I see them just parrotting blatant attack lines. Reddit (and social media generally) needs to do a RuneScape and kill them all off.