Voter turnout was low at 35.87%, little more than half the 2019 figure.
This is indicative of the general apathy across the country. People are fed up with politicians as they are seen as so removed from the rest of us. Partying during lockdowns, skimming money here there and everywhere, breaking laws that would see the like of us in jail and generally not giving a fetid dingoe’s kidney about anyone but themselves.
I would have thought that better turn out would have been quite high if I need to get rid of the useless incumbents.
No one wants another Tory in the seat, especially if they’re going to lose the next election. If you’re smart you want to be a represented by a member of the winning party, regardless of your national political views.
It is more indicative of tory support in a tory heartland.
We know an area that voted this woman in with a very large majority. Is likely not to be enammered with labour. Even when as right wing as they now are.
So in this situation who do you think the people who supported 2019 tories but are now pissed are going to vote for. No vote will always be more likely.
Now when other parties are running national campaigns pointing out how important a vote is. But honestly no vote here was going to make a measurable difference to the near future.
This is indicative of the general apathy across the country. People are fed up with politicians as they are seen as so removed from the rest of us. Partying during lockdowns, skimming money here there and everywhere, breaking laws that would see the like of us in jail and generally not giving a fetid dingoe’s kidney about anyone but themselves.
I wouldn’t read that much into it. By-election turnouts are almost always dreadful for many reasons and apathy is only one of them.
I would have thought that better turn out would have been quite high if I need to get rid of the useless incumbents.
No one wants another Tory in the seat, especially if they’re going to lose the next election. If you’re smart you want to be a represented by a member of the winning party, regardless of your national political views.
It is more indicative of tory support in a tory heartland.
We know an area that voted this woman in with a very large majority. Is likely not to be enammered with labour. Even when as right wing as they now are.
So in this situation who do you think the people who supported 2019 tories but are now pissed are going to vote for. No vote will always be more likely.
Now when other parties are running national campaigns pointing out how important a vote is. But honestly no vote here was going to make a measurable difference to the near future.
And here lies the true damage - the Tories have spent the last 14 years conflating their misdeeds with those of all politicians.
They are not ‘all the same’. They never have been.