| Batley and Spen 07:21 - Jul 2 with 1717 views | tractordownsouth |
Labour hold - just about. Only 323 votes in it but when you consider that Galloway stood with the sole purpose of splitting the Labour vote and won 8k, and the Brexit-supporting independent who won 6k votes in 2019 stood aside, it’s very impressive. Apparently many Tories switched to Labour to keep out Galloway after his mob spent the campaign abusing the Labour candidate. Hopefully he’ll feck off out of politics forever now. Awful man.
Results:
Labour 13296
Tory 12973
Galloway 8264
Lib Dem 1254 |  |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:12 - Jul 2 with 373 views | tractordownsouth |
| Batley and Spen on 10:01 - Jul 2 by Lord_Lucan |
I think the red wall was smashed some time ago. I was discussing this with ABB recently, it seems the whole voting pattern has changed with the London liberal elite switching to Labour and the Tories hoovering up the working man.
Normally after a few years in power the government would be losing by elections anyway but we live in strange times and there is no doubt the Tories thought they had this in the bag. To be honest, if it wasn't for the labour candidate they would probably have won it fairly convincingly. |
The Tories still trail with low income voters but they’ve definitely made inroads and voting on economic grounds is less common than before. I think part of the reason they’re able to compete in by elections despite having been in government for so long is that they’ve been able to reinvent themselves. Cameron’s government was nothing like Johnson’s and May’s was somewhere in between. Compare that to 2010 when Labour went into an election with Brown who had been Chancellor for 10 years before becoming PM, which made things feel a bit stale. | |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:14 - Jul 2 with 364 views | positivity |
i'd written this one off as a tory certainty, so very pleasantly surprised.
huge respect to the bravery of leadbetter and family, and her grace in the face of despicable behaviour by galloway and some of the other extremists in the election.
people downplay the popularity of brabin around these parts, it's pretty impressive that labour were able to hold without her |  |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:14 - Jul 2 with 363 views | Darth_Koont |
| Batley and Spen on 10:08 - Jul 2 by Lord_Lucan |
I put it more down to a Brexit thing |
That certainly sharpened some divisions but Labour was starting to lose the red wall before 2016 so there was a direction of travel already. |  |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:16 - Jul 2 with 351 views | Tangledupin_Blue |
| Batley and Spen on 10:12 - Jul 2 by tractordownsouth |
The Tories still trail with low income voters but they’ve definitely made inroads and voting on economic grounds is less common than before. I think part of the reason they’re able to compete in by elections despite having been in government for so long is that they’ve been able to reinvent themselves. Cameron’s government was nothing like Johnson’s and May’s was somewhere in between. Compare that to 2010 when Labour went into an election with Brown who had been Chancellor for 10 years before becoming PM, which made things feel a bit stale. |
I didn't think much of Brown at the time but, with all that's happened since, don't they seem like the good old days. |  |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:18 - Jul 2 with 345 views | Darth_Koont |
| Batley and Spen on 10:11 - Jul 2 by Tangledupin_Blue |
Jayda Fransen polling just 50 votes is one small bright spot... |
Her and Anne Marie Waters getting so few votes is definitely the high point. | |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:31 - Jul 2 with 304 views | itfcjoe |
| Batley and Spen on 09:38 - Jul 2 by Swansea_Blue |
How on earth do over 8,000 vote for Galloway? I've not been following it and only just seen the results, but surely everyone knows he's an utter arse-wipe? |
He managed to split the Muslim community in Batley but had little breakthrough in Spen.
Campaigning on Palestine and some very un-progressive stuff to appeal to that part of conservative Muslim community (LGBT etc). Fake leaflets sent round from his guys in name of Labour, town halls every night where he was stirring things up etc.
He's a very good orator and campaigner, there's no depth he won't sink to so cn pick them up by tailoring message |  |
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| Batley and Spen on 10:35 - Jul 2 with 298 views | itfcjoe |
| Batley and Spen on 10:01 - Jul 2 by Lord_Lucan |
I think the red wall was smashed some time ago. I was discussing this with ABB recently, it seems the whole voting pattern has changed with the London liberal elite switching to Labour and the Tories hoovering up the working man.
Normally after a few years in power the government would be losing by elections anyway but we live in strange times and there is no doubt the Tories thought they had this in the bag. To be honest, if it wasn't for the labour candidate they would probably have won it fairly convincingly. |
We've almost had a complete about turn - and now mirror the US.
Seems counter factual - but the conservatives/republicans who want the status quo are managing to persuade people in tough situatons that are getting worse and worse due to globalisation and old industrial communities that are being run down that a vote for them will make things better.
Labour/Democrats are now the party of the metropolitan, the big cities, the places that are thriving more with regards to work.
Now, the biggest indicator which crosses all classes, ethnicities and ages of how you are going to vote is education level. | |
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| Batley and Spen on 11:31 - Jul 2 with 241 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Batley and Spen on 07:59 - Jul 2 by bluelagos |
Galloway wasn't exactly magnaminous in defeat and talked of a legal challenge against the result (He claimed he was falsely accused of laughing when Labour campaigners were harrassed/assaulted) |
Nasty piece of work. 8000 people were conned |  | | |
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