The Conservative Party

[SkyBlueFlux]

A lot of the Tory vote stayed at home from the looks of it. Do we think they'll do that in a GE?

I think this “Tories stayed home” narrative is becoming a bit of an apocryphal line that comes out at each by-election but do we have any actual evidence that this is the case?

How do we know that former Tory voters didn’t turn up this time and vote for somebody else?

It relies on the idea that the electorate is this fixed mass of people who always vote the same way. For all we know there could be more Labour voters that stayed home because they thought it was a foregone conclusion than Tory voters.

I don’t think the Tories will perform any better than this at a GE. There are plenty of non-Tory voters that never vote in local and by-elections.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I think this “Tories stayed home” narrative is becoming a bit of an apocryphal line that comes out at each by-election but do we have any actual evidence that this is the case?

How do we know that former Tory voters didn’t turn up this time and vote for somebody else?

It relies on the idea that the electorate is this fixed mass of people who always vote the same way. For all we know there could be more Labour voters that stayed home because they thought it was a foregone conclusion than Tory voters.

I don’t think the Tories will perform any better than this at a GE. There are plenty of non-Tory voters that never vote in local and by-elections.

Its hard to vote from the grave

 

[mosssideblue]

I think this “Tories stayed home” narrative is becoming a bit of an apocryphal line that comes out at each by-election but do we have any actual evidence that this is the case?

How do we know that former Tory voters didn’t turn up this time and vote for somebody else?

It relies on the idea that the electorate is this fixed mass of people who always vote the same way. For all we know there could be more Labour voters that stayed home because they thought it was a foregone conclusion than Tory voters.

I don’t think the Tories will perform any better than this at a GE. There are plenty of non-Tory voters that never vote in local and by-elections.

Top post and, totally agree

 

[bluethrunthru]

They sent their chairman out to explain away a disaster and he got his arse handed to him on a plate - they just don't do politics well - Sunak trotting out "mid term by-elections" today - he is going to the polls in May in my view - how is that mid-term

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

They sent their chairman out to explain away a disaster and he got his arse handed to him on a plate - they just don't do politics well - Sunak trotting out "mid term by-elections" today - he is going to the polls in May in my view - how is that mid-term

Whoever came up with the “back to square one” line needs firing. It’s fucking awful. Labour should adopt it as their own slogan, that’d be funny.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Its hard to vote from the grave

An underrated point. There’s plenty of Tory voters from 2019 who after 5 years and a pandemic will be decidedly unable to turnout for the next one.

 

[bluethrunthru]

3rd rate politician tells a man who is involved in the media his job - thats how shit they are at politics

 

[BobKowalski]

Whoever came up with the “back to square one” line needs firing. It’s fucking awful. Labour should adopt it as their own slogan, that’d be funny.

Think we would love to get back to square one. We’ve certainly had enough of the current shit.

 

[Lowtower]

Whoever came up with the “back to square one” line needs firing. It’s fucking awful. Labour should adopt it as their own slogan, that’d be funny.

Yeah, be very New Labour like to adopt Tory stances...

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

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