Jul 2023
7:00am, 21 Jul 2023
60,554 posts
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Derby Tup
No idea where or what Uxbridge is but it sounds proper posh plus the result was close
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Jul 2023
7:05am, 21 Jul 2023
62,978 posts
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LindsD
It's not. Boundary a mile from my house.
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Jul 2023
7:06am, 21 Jul 2023
62,979 posts
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LindsD
It's a lot of people who think/thought Johnson is/was a laugh
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Jul 2023
7:12am, 21 Jul 2023
62,980 posts
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LindsD
495 majority against a turnout of just shy of 31k. And the Tory candidate was local, which I think was a good move.
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Jul 2023
7:14am, 21 Jul 2023
1,806 posts
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Weean
en.wikipedia.org since 1970 the fourteen parliamentary elections in this constituency and its predecessor (the constituency of Uxbridge) were won by the Conservatives. Just wonder if things might have been different if all the students (of Brunel University) hadn't been on holiday. |
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Jul 2023
7:17am, 21 Jul 2023
1,807 posts
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Weean
In 1997 the majority was only 88 but the MP died before he could take his seat. The Tories selected a local businessman with good recognition, Labour parachuted in some Blairite drone and the Tories took it at a canter.
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Jul 2023
7:17am, 21 Jul 2023
1,808 posts
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Weean
good name recognition
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Jul 2023
7:44am, 21 Jul 2023
2,735 posts
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Surelynot
Uxbridge was won due to the local issue of the extension of ULEZ. The winning candidate said as much. Will this still be an issue next election? Will a metropolitan issue be enough to save the Tories? I don't think so. Would a 'get the Tories in the sea' tactical voting agreement between Labour and Lib Dems make sense? I think it would but, if I were a Labour member, I could be expelled for publicly stating this. |
Jul 2023
8:12am, 21 Jul 2023
20,552 posts
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Chrisull
Well, well - anti-ULEZ vote that saw the Greens come 3rd with 893 in Uxbridge, nearly double the difference Labour needed. An anti-ULEZ vote that saw journalist and prospective Labour candidate Paul Mason lash out at those on the left who cost Labour Uxbridge. An anti-ULEZ vote that saw the Greens get 3944 in Somerton and Frome with 10% of the vote.... oh wait. Maybe there was more at play here? I'm not saying election winning margins, but just maybe there is a) enough disquiet about 40C temps in Europe and b) Labour's stupidity over things like 2 child benefit cap, that enough people will go Green rather than Labour. We are not alone. |
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Jul 2023
8:16am, 21 Jul 2023
20,553 posts
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Chrisull
(and enough to outpoll Lawrence Fox). Maybe there is like a quiet, angry minority who don't start culture wars and post shit over Twitter every 2 seconds that are being ignored, and have concern more of the same is not going to cut it.
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