Can Anyone Hear The Beast Of Bolsover Screaming?

[ToraToraTora]

Ironic that the seat result 326, the one that gets Boris over the line, is Bolsover! Sorry Dennis, your boys took a beating!

[emmie]

so they have and he will be furious to be unseated.....

[Jackdaw33]

Did Skinner stand? He's 87!

[emmie]

yes he has held the seat for over 40 years.

[emmie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50773251

[Gromit]

That’s 1 less Brexiteer :-)

Without wanting to be ageist, he is 87, he should have retired years ago.

[emmie]

he still had something to say presumably

[ToraToraTora]

what was your prediction again gromit?

[youngmafbog]

Bet he is not happy with COB.

[Gromit]

Skinner’s Leave credentials are impeccable.
Lifelong EuroSkeptic, voted leave in 2016, and voted for the Conservatives Brexit Deal.

The voters must have ditch him for another reason.

[emmie]

the other bloke got more votes presumably

[Gromit]

Tora,
From the day the election was called, I predicted a Conservative victory :-)

[youngmafbog]

No, but I can hear Didley, gulliver and the others. :-)

An excellent result. Looks like the young didn't all vote labour when they actually got to the booth.

[emmie]

but not the size of the victory..

[dannyk13]

Gromit //he is 87, he should have retired years ago//.
You failed miserably in your effort to avoid being ageist

[davebro]

true though

[10ClarionSt]

Margaret Twatcher once said that Dennis Skinner was the ideal role model for any MP. She admired his dedication and committment. I met him. He is a fantastic person, very engaging and charismatic. I think he attended more debates than any other MP, although I wouldn't bet on that. The commons will be much poorer for his departure.

[Old_Geezer]

He was due to be Father of the House, but that honour's lost to him now.

[naomi24]

//That’s 1 less Brexiteer//

It doesn’t matter now, Gromit. The people’s vote that those who have no respect for democracy demanded was yesterday and the people have spoken again - and again decisively. Time to put the Brexit argument to bed and time for Remainers to acknowledge defeat and cease their puerile, petty, contentious lip-dragging. They’ve embarrassingly and relentlessly hauled this country through on-going misery for the past three and a half years and the electorate has had enough of it - and said so.

The City is confident, the economy is thriving, and Labour’s disastrous out-dated Marxist intentions that would without doubt have led to poverty and ruination have been firmly rejected - along with many of its cobweb strewn dinosaurs who have no place in a democratic, forward-thinking, thriving society. The people have spoken and democracy has triumphed - as it should. Time to once again take pride in our country and move on.

[emmie]

Naomi, Hear Hear

[10ClarionSt]

The whole thing was delayed in the first place Naomi, because of the Tory rebels. If they had backed their own PM in the first place, there would have been no delay. And no scope for all the other parties to delay it.
Tory MPs' caused it all. What we saw later was the effect of that failure to back their own PM.