Labour wins two by-elections in bruising night for the Tories

[Celerity]

Party triumphant as huge Conservative majorities overturned

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/by-election-results-live-wellingborough-kingswood-tory-labour-latest-news-snh3rnk09

https://archive.is/UTJq9

The Labour candidate Gen Kitchen celebrates after overturning a huge Tory majority in Wellingborough with a 28.5 per cent swing. The result represents the largest drop in Conservative vote share ever in a by-election

Labour has secured victory in two by-elections, taking Kingswood and Wellingborough from the Tories. Voting in the two constituencies in South Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire took place towards the end of a difficult week for both Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer. It was revealed on Thursday that Britain had entered a technical recession, providing bad news for Sunak’s government, while Starmer has been facing growing pressure over allegations of antisemitism within his party.

Newly-elected Labour MP Damien Egan with supporters after winning the Kingswood by-election

[malaise]

1. It's over for the Cons

They will lose the next general election

[AllyCat]

2. Hope this happens here and everywhere conservatives are working

For interests other than life and liberty for their people.

[GreenWave]

3. And forever!

Cons will block fixing this planet.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Interesting how the colors (colours) are reversed from what we do here in the US.

Even those campaign ribbons they wear and red for labour and blue for the conservative Tories.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. That's generally true throughout the world (redleft, blueright) and used to be true here, too.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Red has been the colour associated with the left wing, internationally, for hundreds of years

https://ageofrevolution.org/200-object/red-flag/

The US use of Red for Republicans just stuck in 2000: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/

[dutch777]

5. UK really did itself in with Brexit. Sadly, I don't see Labour being able to fix much given fiscal conditions

If Britain had not lost so much business, especially in the financial sector, to the EU following Brexit there may have been room for a new taxing strategy that would have allowed some money to fix things. As it stands, they seem to be in a very bad place whether Labour or the Tories are in power. Johnson, Farage, et. al. should be taken out and tarred and feathered. Somehow you don't see the pro-Brexit crowd out crowing about all they have accomplished much. I wonder if the EU would even let them back in if the had another vote?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The EU won't let the UK back in until it's clear the UK will want to stay for good

or at least for several decades. The EU just doesn't need the hassle of wondering if a change in government is going to cause chaos, calls to withdraw again, and so on.