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BLACKPOOL SOUTH BY-ELECTION RESULT

From last night:

🔴 Chris Webb (Labour): 58.9% (+20.6)
🔵 David Jones (Conservatives): 17.5% (-32.1)
⚪ David Brown (Reform UK): 16.9% (+10.8)
🟠 Andrew Cregan (Liberal Democrats): 2.1% (-1.0)
🟢 Ben Thomas (Green): 2.0% (+0.3)
⚫ Others: 2.6% (new)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.

Changes with 2019 general election.

#ukpolitics #LE2024 #LocalElections2024 #LocalElections #electionresults #news #BlackpoolSouth

Low numbers of #voters as people believe their views probably don't count. When they don't #vote their views definitely won't count. Giving up lets the other side win.
If it doesn't feel worth the walk on #election days get a #postal vote.
We researched who the candidates were. Not liking something doesn't make it go away.

#BlackpoolSouth ousted a #Tory.

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/16-4-of-islanders-vote-in-police-and-crime-commissioner-election/
#election #PoliceandCrimeCommissioner #Government #UK #localelection #byelection

State of the parties at 05:00:

The Conservatives have now lost over 100 seats, and control of four councils.

This, alongside the by-election result in #BlackpoolSouth, is proving a disaster for the party.

#LocalElections

#RishiSunak faces fresh #byelection as former #ToryMP suspended

#BlackpoolSouth’s #ScottBenton had suggested to undercover reporters he would be willing to break #lobbying rules for money
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/27/rishi-sunak-faces-fresh-byelection-as-former-tory-mp-suspended
#ToryCorruption #ToryBehaviour

'#Tories may face #Blackpool #byelection as #ScottBenton loses suspension appeal

The #CommonsStandardsCommittee said at the time that the message he gave to the undercover reporters was “that he was #corrupt and ‘for sale’,...

MP for #BlackpoolSouth, who offered to #lobby for #gambling industry, loses appeal against 35-day Commons suspension'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/tories-may-face-byelection-scott-benton-loses-suspension-appeal-blackpool-south
#ToryCorruption #ToryBehaviour

Suspended Tory MP #scottBenton faces 35-day Commons ban

And another one bites the dust..... " the MP had given the message "he was #corrupt and 'for sale'"

#blackpoolSouth is a straight #toriesOut #labour fight & looks VERY winnable

Will it tip the scales for #sunak to go early for #2024GE ? Maybe not..... but the drip, drip of defeat is eroding their base - with the hard right going to #reform as they lose hope of a tory revival

https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3338/election/397

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67714132

More raw sewage released into the sea

https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-4364-8878-c70a-25b742128805

Tory MPs incapable of keeping their snouts out of the trough. #BlackpoolSouth MP proves how unfit he is by succumbing to a #stingoperation & promising to lobby & divulge confidential info 4 cash. Disgusting. https://tinyurl.com/yccjbw9h #TorySleaze #TorySewageParty