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[youngmafbog]

With the bookies favouring the Lib Dems

What is your prediction for the Shropshire election?

[tonyav]

Tory, but with a reduced majority and a low turn out at the polling booth's.

[Gromit]

// Truss is up there as a potential //

Nooooooooo!!!!! - She is terrible.

[jno]

Lib Dems think they've won comfortably

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/17/north-shropshire-byelection-liberal-democrats-say-they-will-win-comfortably-as-count-continues

[emmie]

Lib Dems take it, after watching it live. What a shocker...

[Gromit]

Tories lose a 23,000 majority. LibDem have a 6,000 majority in what was a very loyal Tory seat.

The Conservative blue wall is collapsing. And Tory MPs in Westminster will look on with concern.

The beginning of the end for Boris Johnson.

[emmie]

we will see.

[Gromit]

My Tory activist friend (who is a plonker) nailed it. Predicted a LibDem win by thousands. He was right and I was wrong.
A clear message to Boris Johnson and to the 1922 Committee who decide on the leader.

[JimF]

What are the chances of Johnson still being the tory leader / PM in January?

[emmie]

every chance. Labour are a poor third..

[Gromit]

// Labour are a poor third //

Labour were not trying to win. They knew they couldn’t win, but also knew the LibDems could.

More to the point, the Conservatives were a poor second. A 23,000 Tory majority becomes a 6,000 LibDem majority. That is a huge shift, and a total rejection of Boris’s leadership and the Conservative Government.

[emmie]

the coming months will be crucial for the Tory party. They could change leader and see what happens then.

[Gromit]

If Patterson had accepted the result of an independent inquiry, and accepted his punishment like a man, and the Prime Minster followed the rules instead of trying to change them, then he didn’t have to resign and this election needn’t have happened.

All self inflicted.

[douglas9401]

Come on Gromit, show some compassion for the lying, cheating, womanising, feckless burst couch impersonator as he tries to gather his thoughts this day.

[jno]

his wonderful feelgood front page story about naming Romy Iris only lasted one edition in the papers, I fear. Talk about a good day for burying good news.

[Untitled]

theresa may burned up a tory majority and remained in power for years... johnson won't go anywhere for some time yet. They'll keep him there to absorb all the bad PR from brexit consequences then dump him just before the election... and it will work.

[Ellipsis]

Yep, let's get Liz Truss in. That will help ...