Positive UK News (for non-Tories)

[mrsukyankee]

Tories lose two key byelections on same night in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton


Boris Johnson has faced a double hammer blow to his authority after the Conservatives lost the Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton byelections on the same night, prompting Oliver Dowden, the party chair, to resign.



Labour took Wakefield, while the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000-plus majority to snatch Tiverton and Honiton.



The Tiverton and Honiton result, where the Lib Dem candidate, Richard Foord, defeated the Tories’ Helen Hurford by 6,144 votes to take a constituency that has been Conservative in its various forms for well over a century, is believed to be the biggest numerical majority ever overturned in a byelection.

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They spoke to typical Tory voters in the areas and they either didn't vote at all or they changed their vote to either Labour or Lib Dem. This is HUGE. It even led to the Conservative party chair to resign. 


Oliver Dowden resigns as Conservative party chair after byelection losses

Oliver Dowden has resigned as Conservative chair after the party’s disastrous double byelection losses in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton, saying someone “must take responsibility” for a recent run of poor results.



The Tory MP’s resignation letter, also sent in a tweet, comes after the party lost two seats it had held in a single night. Labour took Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000-plus majority to snatch Tiverton and Honiton.

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Things are turning! Tory activists are angry and tired of dealing with the Tory idiocy and Lib Dem & Labour activists are engergised. I'm really hoping that things start to change for the positive (aka, the party begins to divide more and more).

The Lib Dems and Labour (along with the Green Party) can work together and really knock this gov't on its backside.

[jamaicam]

wakefield should NEVER have been Tory ever ever. It is the racism that the Tories appeal to in the poorer areas that won them seats like that. i am glad they are out of there.

[ellipses84]

I’m glad you have some positive news over there. I feel like the whole of the UK population is a lot more reasonable that the US and your pendulum will swing back from political insanity sooner. We are devolving into the handmaids tale across the pond 😢

[mrsukyankee]

Jun 24, 2022 13:03:38 GMT -5 ellipses84 said:

I’m glad you have some positive news over there. I feel like the whole of the UK population is a lot more reasonable that the US and your pendulum will swing back from political insanity sooner. We are devolving into the handmaids tale across the pond 😢

Not so sure about that.  And regardless, we have the equivalent to gerrymandering done over here, so it might not matter. 

[konapoppy]

Wow - things are getting “interesting” over there - www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62069494

[underwaterrhymes]

Jul 6, 2022 21:47:09 GMT -5 konapoppy said:

Wow - things are getting “interesting” over there - www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62069494

Yeah, it’s crazy. Something like 38 (ETA - no! 40!) people have resigned just today.

Can they force him out?

NVM - I missed the part at the very bottom. Ugh. I hope he decides to resign.

[basilosaurus]

Resignation just announced, wants to remain as PM until future date/time.

www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-latest-resignations-today-conservatives-uk-politics-live

The link is real time updated. 

[Velar Fricative]

Crazy! Can’t believe he’s actually resigning. Especially when most of us live in a country where the former shitty President could get away with murder with his party.

[underwaterrhymes]

This made me laugh:

[pumpkin]

Wow! I didn’t actually think he’d do it.

[Bad Dingo]

Holy shit, I'm shocked!! Congrats, UK!