So Nobody Going To Gloat

[lankeela]

over the Labour hold in the West Lancashire by election? Not as though they took it from the Conservatives is it?

[Ken4155]

Possibly why no-one's gloating, Lanky :-)

[QuizmasterG]

31.4% Turnout.
Hardly flocking to the polls to give the Tories a kicking?

[sunny-dave]

St Michael's on Wyre is at least 40 miles from the by-election constituency - and you couldn't even be bothered to get the missing woman's name correct.

[ToraToraTora]

Only a 10% swing, if that were repeated across the country the conservatives would win. I'm not surprised the Labour luvvies are keeping schtum it's a poor result from a party aspiring to no 10.

[ichkeria]

Let’s face it it was a low key by election in a safe seat in freezing weather.
All the figures were likely to be low

[Atheist]

Ich; and labour still got a 10% swing in their favour. Safe seat, new candidate.

[ichkeria]

Actually Labour would win an overall majority with a National overall swing of just over 10%.
That is of course very unlikely but only a 3-4% swing is needed to deprive the conservatives of their overall majority

[ichkeria]

In ref to the above, what I meant was a “uniform” swing is most unlikely

[bednobs]

spoke too soon