The Right-Minded View: Sleaford’s By-Election – Another Terrible Result For Corbyn | A New Place Of Exile
Jeremy Corbyn: Responsibility.
If we agree on nothing else about Labour’s performance in the by-election at Sleaford and North Hykeham (UKIP poster-creators, note the spelling), we should all at least agree that the following commentary is a work of genius.
I feel genuinely sad that I can’t publish the lot on this page, but you really need to visit the original site.
If it wasn’t for Jeremy Corbyn, then Labour would definitely have won the Parliamentary seat in Sleaford; which has been held for 19 consecutive years by Conservative MPs, and has never been won by any other party.
Just how did the Conservatives retain a safeseat, in a by-election, during the onset of winter, with an electoral turnout which was only half that of the previous General Election’s? Well, it simply defies any other possible explanation save to attribute the outcome solely to Mr Corbyn. Now, that’s not to say that every by-election is entirely reflective of Corbyn – because Labour has won many under his tenure; and we can safely say that those results had nothing to do with him at all – he was merely incidental.
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In Sleaford Labour did not only come forth behind the Conservatives, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats but got fewer votes there are card carrying Labour party members in that constituency. Failing to inspire your own membership to take the trouble to turn out and vote for your candidate, in a by-election, is NOT the sign of a party moving towards government, Mike.
Very much the opposite actually.
Labour IS in dire straights.
(Not posting critical comments like this for other to see doesn’t invalidate them or make the truth contained in them go away.)
You’re right – there are card-carrying Conservative, UKIP and Liberal Democrat members in that constituency, too.
The Tories failed to get a horde of more than 17,000 people to turn up. Of course, most people in any constituency aren’t actually members of any political party at all, so it isn’t a case of failing to inspire members, but of failing to inspire regular supporters to turn out and vote. The fact that that Conservatives failed so massively certainly shows that they are not a party moving back towards government.
Labour isn’t in dire straits (or even straights) – at least, not as dire as those of the Tories or UKIP. You are supporting fake news.
Oh, and what’s your last paragraph – the one in brackets – all about? Trying to say I’m censoring you? On your way. I don’t need to.
You have a funny way of looking at things, Mike.
I talk about membership numbers and you counter by quoting falls in support for others. One had nothing to do with the other in context. Let me repeat: The support Labour mustered in Sleaford was LESS in magnitude than the number of official Labour party members in that constituency and the party dropped two places in the rankings since the 2015 general election. This should not have happened if Labour had begun to attract support from non-affiliated citizens who didn’t vote Labour in the last general election, which is something that the party absolutely must do to win in 2020. All of the parties from first to third place either moved up the ranks in the by-election and/or received more votes than they had official party members in the constituency.
Labour’s performance WAS abysmal.
And, as I posted above, NOT the sign of a party moving towards government, absolutely and definitively not, which I find terribly upsetting because it means that we may end up living under a reactionary very right-wing Tory government indefinitely and have to witness the misery, injustice and suffering it engenders.