02-08-2019, 01:19 AM
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Re: The Brecon and Radnorshire By-Election
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49200636Polls closed at 22:00 BST and the result is expected in the early hours of Friday.
02-08-2019, 02:27 AM
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Re: The Brecon and Radnorshire By-Election
Brecon and Radnorshire by-election: Lib Dems beat Conservativeshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49200636
Mr Davies stood again after being unseated by a petition that followed his conviction for a false expenses claim.
Labour were beaten into the fourth place by The Brexit Party.
Chris Davies - Con - 12,401 (39%)
Des Parkinson - Brexit - 3,331 (10.5%)
Tom Davies - Labour - 1,680 (5.3%)
Lady Lily The Pink - Loony - 334 (1%)
Liz Phillips - UKIP - 242 (0.8%)
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Lib Dem Majority - 1,425
02-08-2019, 08:29 AM
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Well it's fairly obvious the the LibDems did a deal with the Greens and others to avoid splitting the Remain voteThe Cons & TBP behaved slightly more honourably and suffered accordingly
However, the overall result shows
Leave = 49,5%
Remain = 43,4%
Moreover, it would seem that Leavers are willing to accept a No Deal Brexit
As for Labour, obviously a very low vote.
Presumably this is because no-one is keen on the direction Labour have been going in recent years, or they don't know what Labour's policies are, especially on Brexit, or both
02-08-2019, 11:03 AM
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Interesting comments from www.order-order.comThe reason for the by - election was that the Conservative MP Chris Davies was deselected owing to dodgy expenses claims, yet he was allowed to stand again by Theresa May
A strange move you might think, but from Theresa The Betrayer's point of view it makes sense -
If he wins, there is a Remainer MP in the HoC
If he loses, it would almost certainly be to the LibDems, who clearly want to Remain
Thus for a Remainer like Theresa The Betrayer it's a win - win situation as either result will weaken Brexit
02-08-2019, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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It seems that the Brexit party split the vote for the Tories allowing the LD's (who negotiated with remain parties to put up one candidate) to get in and reduce the Tory majority to 1.Labour had a particularly bad night ...
02-08-2019, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Omah
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Brecon and Radnorshire by-election: Lib Dems beat Conservativeshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49200636
Jane Dodds - Lib Dem - 13,826 (43.4%)
Chris Davies - Con - 12,401 (39%)
Des Parkinson - Brexit - 3,331 (10.5%)
Tom Davies - Labour - 1,680 (5.3%)
Lady Lily The Pink - Loony - 334 (1%)
Liz Phillips - UKIP - 242 (0.8%)
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Lib Dem Majority - 1,425
02-08-2019, 02:38 PM
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Whatever possessed the Conservative Party to allow Chris Davies, convicted of fiddling his expenses, to stand again in a seat he was responsible for there having to be another election. Did'nt the local party have a say in this dumb decision!? Surely there was an honest candidate the party could have found from somewhere. I'm surprised the cheating bugger got as many votes as he did. I certainly would'nt have voted for him, even if I was a die hard tory!!
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