The Brexit Party's bubble pricked?
No doubt much to their disappointment, the Brexit Party didn't win the Peterborough by-election: Labour retained the seat by the narrow margin of 683 on a fairly low (48%) turnout; the conservatives were relegated to third place.
What you have to ask is, if the BP can't win in Peterborough, a seat with poor employment prospect (too many zero-hours McJobs) a high proportion of mainland EU citizens and having had a 60/40 Brexit vote in the referendum, where can they win?
The downside, of course, is that this will help to cement Corbyn and his appalling retinue/cabal (Milne, Lavery etc) in place instead of the party replacing him with a better leader, so we'll end up with a choice in the next general election confined to him and whatever no-hoper the Tories manage to throw up (appropriate metaphor!). An unappealing choice!
An interesting note: cowardly "political genius" Nigel Farage scuttled out the back door at the count before even the result was announced. Not a man able to look defeat in the face!
Finally, if I'd been a voter there, I might have been persuaded to vote for Bobby Elmo Smith (in the pink suit below):
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