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Who does Boris Johnson think he is, trying to tell us what we like or don’t?

Big ugly party bore: rather than act on the criticisms implicit in his double by-election defeat, Johnson is trying to tell us that people who voted his Tories out were letting off a “safety valve” and really want him to carry on as if nothing has happened. WRONG! We’re sick of him and the endless torrent of nonsense that flows from his mouth.

Boris Johnson isn’t going to win back voters by trying to tell us all what we think.

After being defeated in two by-elections last Thursday (June 23), Johnson tried to play down their significance by claiming voters are fed up of hearing about things he had “stuffed up”:

Mr Johnson said: “For a long time people were hearing not enough about the things that really matter to them.

“People were absolutely fed up hearing about things I stuffed up, this endless churn of stuff, when they wanted to hear what is this guy doing.”

No – we were fed up of having a prime minister who continually “stuffed” things up, and angry that everything he ever did was wrong, or corrupt, or outright illegal.

“Politics is about allowing people to have the democratic safety valve of letting off at governments, such as in by-elections.

No – politics is about doing what the people tell you to do, not about trying to tell them what they think.

“But then the job of a leader is to say, well, what is the criticism that really matters here?”

No – well, only partially.

And from this evidence, Johnson has drawn the wrong conclusion and is doing the wrong thing yet again.

Source: Voters fed up of hearing how I ‘stuffed up’ PM says as he plays down by-election defeats

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By-election disaster for Tories in Yorkshire and Devon as Johnson becomes ballot box poison

All his own fault: but will Boris Johnson take responsibility for his party’s losses or will he try to palm it off onto somebody else, as usual?

The Conservative Party has imploded in two by-elections as local electorates delivered a devastating verdict on Boris Johnson’s corrupt government.

The results in Wakefield (Yorkshire), and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon follow dire local election results in May.

All are being seen as a response to the revelations of rampant law-breaking in Downing Street during the Covid-19 lockdown, on Boris Johnson’s watch – and on other decisions he has made that appear to fly against the Ministerial Code.

In Wakefield, Labour’s Simon Lightwood overturned a Tory majority of 3,358 in the 2019 general election to gain a majority of 4,925 on a much lower turnout of 39.46 per cent of the electorate.

But in Tiverton and Honiton, a former Tory stronghold, Liberal Democrat Richard Foord smashed a Conservative majority of 24,239 to gain a majority of his own totalling 6,144. Turnout was much higher, at 52.16 per cent.

Johnson has buried his head in the sand. He has said he will “listen” to voters but intends to “keep going”, no matter what.

But he may not get the chance because panic is spreading through his party like wildfire.

And it is a party with no chairman after Oliver Dowden quit with a letter he sent to Johnson at 5.35am. As BBC political editor Chris Mason put it: “Nothing reeks of panic quite like a resignation letter at 5.35am.”

And the words of the letter are damning. Dowden did not voice any support at all for Johnson.

Instead, he stated: “Yesterday’s Parliamentary by-elections are the latest in a run of very poor results for our party. Our supporters are distressed and disappointed by recent events, and I share their feelings.”

He is distressed and disappointed by the Conservative Party’s election results under Johnson.

“We cannot carry on with business as usual. Somebody must take responsibility” – but even though Dowden was resigning, he did not say that it should be him. The implication is clear: he thinks Johnson should quit as well.

Dowden went on to pay tribute – not to Johnson’s leadership but to “our excellent Conservative volunteers and staffers who work so tirelessly for our cause”.

He continued: “They are the backbone of our great party and deserve better than this.” This being Johnson, one can only conclude.

Dowden himself concluded with these words: “I will, as always, remain loyal to the Conservative Party.” But not to Johnson?

The meaning is clear: Boris Johnson is now ballot box poison and should make way for somebody new.

In Chris Mason’s early-morning comment for the BBC, the pundit states that: “Conservative MPs from the top down have the jitters this morning; the dawn decision of their former chairman quickening their pulse further.”

Yes indeed. The Treasurer of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs has put his head above the parapet to say that, after hearing what Johnson has to say for himself, he and his colleagues will be making “some very difficult decisions”.

He said the by-election losses were a “very serious and large defeat in two completely different areas of the country” and members of the Conservative Party need to “think very carefully about the future and how we’re going to remedy the situation” so they stand the best possible chance of winning the next election.

Is that a coded suggestion that the “best possible chance” of winning the next election is the removal of a leader who has proved himself to be a liability?

Also on the minds of Tory MPs – especially in the South West – will be the words of Tiverton and Honiton’s new Liberal Democrat representative, Richard Foord, who demanded that Boris Johnson must “go – and go now”.

He said: “For those Conservative MPs propping up this failing prime minister… If you don’t take action to restore decency, respect and British values to Downing Street, you too will face election defeats.”

The figures suggest he’s not wrong. “Elections guru” Sir John Curtice has said that, adding in the results of the other three by-elections held over the last year, the Conservative vote is an average of 20 percentage points behind its position in 2019.

The last government struggling that badly was John Major’s – and he led it to a landslide defeat in 1997.

If he remains as prime minister, Johnson may well do the same – but only if his fellow MPs let him. Is it time for a visit from the men in grey suits?

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Wakefield/Tiverton and Honiton: never mind the weather – GET OUT AND VOTE!

Why does the weather play such a crucial role in whether people bother to vote or not?

Having taken part in many elections, This Writer still has no idea.

But it is significant that a BBC report on the by-elections at Wakefield in Yorkshire and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon contained the following: “The weather is set to be warm and sunny in Wakefield, while the forecast is for a bright start followed by sunshine and showers in Honiton and Tiverton.”

The reason it makes a difference is that the Conservatives are always more likely to win in bad weather, because they regiment their voters into going out and supporting them, no matter what.

Labour voters (for example and by contrast) tend to stay at home and watch the soap operas if it’s a bit damp.

The good weather today (June 23) suggests that the Tories will get the drubbing in both constituencies that they deserve for continuing to support Boris Johnson despite his many corruptions.

Let’s hope so, eh? Because election results are the only polls that Tories really bother to notice.

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By-elections: For a country suffering Long Tory disease under Boris Johnson, Change Is Good

Boris Johnson: his MPs may have given up on kicking him out but it seems the rest of us all think it’s time for him to go.

Boris Johnson is facing a double-defeat more deadly to his premiership than Partygate as the public turns against him in two by-elections.

People in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, together with Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, seem certain to turn against the Tories over the cost-of-living catastrophe, at the ballot box next month.

At a focus group in Wakefield, the problem was clearly identified as Boris Johnson. Only one voter said they would stick with the Tories; the others vowed to support Labour or abstain from voting altogether.

The vitriol directed at Johnson over Partygate was real. “Can I call him a wanker?” asked Keith.

Rishi Sunak’s star had definitely fallen too. “They’re totally out of touch, particularly those two, born with silver spoons in their mouth,” said Janet, who is on Universal Credit for the first time in her life.

Luke Tryl, director of More In Common, said: “For most, the biggest problem with Johnson and Sunak is that they were seen to be totally out of touch and unable to understand the struggles of people’s everyday lives. This is a telling reversal from last summer and beyond when in similar groups you’d hear people using phrases like ‘Our Boris’ and the sense he was one of them.”

The people mentioned in the source article don’t show any real interest or enthusiasm in Keir Starmer’s Labour – they just want a change from a Tory government that has lost ideas and appeal over its 12 years in office: Long Tory disease.

Tom added: “Change is good.”

How ironic. Johnson used the same line when he had to replace a policy chief who had spoken unwisely about Starmer.

The PM was quoting the Lion King movie, seemingly oblivious to the film’s plot of a duplicitous ruler being found out eventually.

It seems Johnson has been found out. And with no attempt being made to halt the cost-of-living crisis, it seems he may soon be voted out.

Source: Tory MPs may still be backing Boris Johnson, but focus groups are showing that voters are done with the PM

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Erdington by-election: voters reject Tory for might-as-well-be-Tory

All smiles: but now Paulette Hamilton will have to prove she deserved to win Birmingham Erdington – and, with Keir Starmer’s pale Tory policies in a hugely-deprived constituency, that won’t be easy.

Let’s discuss the elephant in the room first: socialist candidate Dave Nellist caused a tremor in UK politics by coming third in the Birmingham Erdington by-election.

He beat candidates from Reform UK, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats.

But he only received 360 votes and the result is unlikely to disturb the plans of either the second-placed Conservatives (6,147 votes) or the winner, Paulette Hamilton of the Keir Starmer Party (currently still misnaming itself as Labour).

Turnout was extremely low, with just 27 per cent of the 67,598-strong electorate bothering to vote. So the real winner was “none of the above” – and it seems the worst enemy of democracy in the UK is still a bit of rain.

And the fact that the turnout was low means news reports of vote shares are skewed (being based on the shares parties received of votes cast, rather than shares of the electorate.

The Starmer Party didn’t increase its vote share from 50 to 55 per cent, as is being claimed in the press.

The late Jack Dromey’s 17,720 votes in 2019 netted him just 26.8 per cent of the possible vote, ahead of Tory Robert Alden, whose 14,119 votes totalled 21.3 per cent of the electorate.

The two main parties’ shares of the possible votes were reduced to 14 per cent for the Starmer Party’s Paulette Hamilton (9,413 votes) and just 9.1 per cent for the Tories’ Robert Alden (6,147 votes).

Starmer has made much of his representative’s win, saying she has “made history”. He meant this was because she was the first black person, and the first woman, to take the constituency’s seat.

But it would be more accurate to say she made history by winning the seat with the lowest number of voters supporting her in the entire history of the constituency.

Undoubtedly some readers will want to suggest that pointing this out is just sour grapes on This Writer’s part, as I supported Mr Nellist and he won fewer than one per cent of the available votes. I’d say that was a fair comment. This was a missed opportunity, in my view.

But everybody has to start somewhere and this shows that left-wing politics in the UK is not dead.

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If you’re in Erdington are you letting the Westminster rot continue – or voting Nellist?

Dave Nellist: a genuine alternative to the right-wing political coalition that is strangling the UK.

It’s a filthy day out – exactly the kind of weather that puts socialists off going out to vote.

It would be a bitter shame if that happens in Bimingham’s Erdington constituency today.

Voters have a choice between the usual right-wingers in the Tory and Liberal Democrat parties, along with a new right-winger being pushed by Keir Starmer’s turncoat Labour Party that (apparently) takes orders from the Tories – or they could support an exciting alternative who offers the political representation that we all need.

That alternative is Dave Nellist – as he demonstrates himself in two video clips released today:

It’s a simple choice: more of the same corruption – which is exactly what you’ll get if you stay at home and don’t bother to vote – or a chance for something different with Dave.

Erdington voters: what are you going to do?

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Tory stooge Starmer doubles down on threat to expel Labour MPs for criticising Nato

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In rational times, a Labour leader caught taking orders from a former Tory minister would automatically apologise and resign.

Clearly we don’t live in a normal world.

Because Keir Starmer, who followed the demand of former Tory minister David Gauke by threatening Labour MPs with the removal of the party whip for criticising Nato by supporting a statement opposing the war in Ukraine, has doubled down on his threat instead:

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned his MPs that any of them who attempt to attack Nato or indulge in “false equivalence” with Russian aggression will be kicked out of the party.

Sir Keir said there would be “no room” in Labour for anyone who seeking to blame the western alliance for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

It follows a telling off for the 11 left-wing Labour MPs who were threatened with the loss of the party whip if they didn’t pull support for a Stop the War letter criticising Nato.

“False equivalence” is a logical fallacy that can most easily be defined as “comparing apples with oranges”.

And if anybody is guilty of it, then Starmer is.

He wants to say that opponents of the war are comparing Russia’s behaviour in invading Ukraine with Nato’s posturing immediately before.

But in fact, the anti-war protesters were comparing Nato’s willingness to allow Ukraine to join the organisation – so it could put military bases on that country’s border with Russia, with Russia’s concerns that it was being encircled by members of an organisation hostile to it.

The language used by Nato and representatives of its member states was highly provocative, while ignoring the concerns that had been expressed to them – as Russian President Putin showed when he singled out the idiotic bluster of UK foreign secretary Liz Truss.

Starmer’s claim makes it seem as though these anti-war protesters are actually supporting Russia’s war – which is a clear contradiction of their fundamental position.

But then, he is (apparently) taking orders from the Conservative Party.

Incidentally, Starmer apparently used Ukraine as an excuse not to attend a regional Labour conference – but instead of actually doing anything related to that crisis, he went to Birmingham’s Erdington constituency to try to shore up crumbling support for his right-wing candidate there:

The genuine left-wing alternative – Dave Nellist – is enjoying considerable grassroots support, which is why the mainstream media are doing all they can to cancel him.

As I type this, BBC Radio West Midlands is holding a “debate” with “some of” the candidates. Nellist isn’t among them, having been deliberately excluded, it seems:

So there you have it.

The mass media – headed by your lovable, “impartial” BBC – are suppressing the left-wing candidate in this important local election, while Tory stooge Starmer has been snubbing his party members to go canvassing on a fake lefty ticket.

I only hope listeners boycott the BBC debate and go to meet Nellist at the Erdington Club rally instead.

And then let’s see a huge vote for Nellist rather than Starmer’s puppet on Thursday.

Source: Keir Starmer warns Labour MPs anyone attacking Nato will be booted out | The Independent

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People of Erdington: if this makes sense, vote yourselves a new MP on March 3

Dave Nellist: a genuine alternative to the right-wing political coalition that is strangling the UK?

Remember Dave Nellist, the socialist candidate for Birmingham Erdington standing on the TUSC ticket, as part of the People’s Alliance of the Left?

Here’s a short message from his campaign on Twitter:

If you’re a voter in Erdington and this makes good sense to you, then consider helping the campaign via the instructions in tweets six and seven – and vote for Dave on March 3.

You could be helping to start a major change for the better in UK politics.

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By-election after MP’s murder marred by shadow of Boris Johnson

All by herself: Tory Anna Firth has won the Southend West Parliamentary seat that was left vacant after David Amess was killed. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party did not contest the seat.

Another Conservative has been voted in as MP for Southend West, after the fatal stabbing of former incumbent David Amess.

The previous MP was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery on October 15. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, of Kentish Town in London, is to stand trial for his murder next month.

It wasn’t much of a contest. With Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party not contesting the seat because of the way it fell vacant, Anna Firth won with 12,792 votes.

But only 24 per cent of the electorate bothered to turn out for it and the second most popular thing to do with ballot papers was to spoil them with messages of disgust with Boris Johnson.

According to PA Media, one stated: “Boris do a Brexit – get out”, while another said: “Get Boris out”.

But Firth – a Johnson loyalist – said she would not take those messages back to Westminster with her. Instead – in an early display of ignorance – she said she would “focus on local priorities”.

Weren’t those anti-Boris messages a display of local priorities, then? It seems this new Tory is just more of the same – an ignorant rich kid who will ignore anything she doesn’t want to see.

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Bombshell #NorthShropshire by-election result: MORE reactions

Boris Johnson: “Today I have mostly been combing my hair with a toffee apple and drinking Special Brew” (not This Writer’s comment but it seems to sum up his reaction to the loss of North Shropshire).

You’ve already read my opinion on the North Shropshire by-election (or you can if you click on this link), but that’s no reason not to have fun reading the many other comments that have sprung up since the result was announced!

Let’s start with the Tories:

(We’ll come to Labour very soon!)

I’ve enjoyed seeing people dissecting the Liberal Democrats…

It seems only fair to remind people of what the Yellow Tories did with the Blue Tories – for five years between 2010 and 2015.

But that’s not to let Labour off the hook for its failure in the present day:

(Was the candidate the previous three times a socialist, by any chance?)

Of course, some of it is absolute bilge:

For Corbyn supporters, the real priority has always been defeating the Conservatives. They were foiled in that aim by people who now support Starmer. And Starmer himself has proved unwilling to fight them; the North Shropshire result is a symptom of this.

So defeating the Conservatives requires Starmer to step aside – or be removed – and Labour to adjust its policies so they fall in line with what the majority of people actually want. Sadly those are long-term goals at the moment. It’s how Sir Keir and his supporters want it.

So it seems clear that Mr Corbyn, and his supporters, aren’t the problem. They never were. The problem is Starmer and his people. They are the Tory enablers.

It’s time people like Mr Hopkin, above, realised this – or accepted that they’re pushing a lie.

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