Almost 30% of those voting went for a bloke too racist for Reform, not something to be gloating about, I'd have thought.
Even if you add the Reform & Tory vote together it’s way below the Labour vote. Fantastic to see. There seems to be a lot more enthusiasm for voting for right wing parties in the North East & Swindon than Barnsley North.
Yeah, but to be fair that has worked very well in the last few straight labour/tory contests! I've been following the various polling methods really closely this election - it'll be really interesting to see how the methodologies change next time round.
And Stephanie Peacock wins by around a 5,000 margin! Delighted my town hasn’t even come close to electing Reform.
Pleased for Stephanie Peacock especially as she's fought hard for ex-miners, so much so that Labour's manifesto promised to deal with both the injustice of Orgreave and the way that the Tory Government raided the Miners' pension fund.
Hope 1 or both of our MPs gets a Cabinet position. Going to be nice to see an end to the Govt, vindictiveness towards our Town. Not expecting limitless financial support from a new Labour govt, but it has got to be a little better