Labour isn’t connecting with the 52% – or the 48%

It was a safe Tory seat, what were they expecting to happen?

Not expecting to be 4th when they were 2nd in May 2015?

It was a safe Tory seat, what were they expecting to happen?

This latest result has not revealed anything we did not know before.

They went from 2nd to 4th.

Also is was always closeish. In 97 it was a target seat.

Labour are going to be decimated at the next general election by UKIP in the north.

Pundits have been saying that for like forever.

It was a safe Tory seat, what were they expecting to happen?

The problem is Jezza its as if the Labour members never want a Labour government again voting in a clown- he is never in a million years a sensible candidate to vote in the general election. He is a threat to national security.

Kim-Il-jez while appealing to the trade union hardliners and certain kind of the islington set is unappealing to the the northern core vote ( as too airy fairy and more concerned about foreigners than what is happening at home, plus he;s not socially conservative and repressive enough for 'family values' old labourite) and to the floating voters - Bliar's 'Mondeo man' he's an utter joke ...

There's every indication that the manifesto for 2020 is going to be ' The longest suicide note in history vol II '

Not really the same scenario now though is it?