“Richmond Park marks the start of a new, cross-party rejection of Brexit”, says Hugo Dixon in the Guardian. Predictably. People like Geraint Davies MP and David Lammy MP been weaselling away since the week of the referendum. Zac Goldsmith’s defeat at the hands of the Liberal Democrats in the Richmond Park by-election has worked on the Remainers like a psychotropic drug in their carrot juice.
A Reddit user called “lordweiner27” neatly turned around every cliché of the Weasel genre. His or her post seems to have been removed from r/ukpolitics, so I thought I would preserve it here:
The LibDems only won by 4% in Richmond, there should be a second by election.
We know that the LibDems lied and put out fake news during the campaign. When people realise this how many people will change their mind?
We also know that this wasn’t really a vote for the LibDems, it was a by election with very low turnout. What this really was was a rejection of the establishment in the form of multi millionaire Goldsmith, not a vote in favour of the LibDems.
I’ve already spoken to people in Richmond and they’re telling me that their having Libgret and wish they’d voted for Zac. They’re telling me that they were decieved by the LibDem campaign, they fell for the lies and they feel that they themselves are possibly retarded.
And anyway, why should ordinary people get to decide who their MP is? Zac was more well qualified than the LibDem candidate having been an MP for years. All the experts back Zac and they’re always right.
Maybe much of the support was because the Lib Dems opposed the truly dreadful Snoopers Charter? In which the lesson for them is to be a truly liberal party of small government; not just another left-wing big-government pro-regulation nanny-state party as they currently are under the vapid Tim Farron. They could try to attract the votes of, well, liberals. Nobody else seems to want them.
A Reddit user called “lordweiner27” neatly turned around every cliché of the Weasel genre:
Hehe, yes that is excellent 😆
Possibly but Goldsmith represented the far-left green lunatic fringe of the Tory party, and I never understood his appeal to actually Tory voters. So my guess is when Goldsmith left the party, most self-described Tories lost even the tribal loyalty reason to vote for the pillock, and any loony middle class lefties would then vote LibDem.
Goldsmith went from 34000 votes in 2015 to 18000 in 2016. Well done Zac. You re-stood for election just after the London mayoral election when everyone had finally noticed what a pillock you are.
I never liked the idea of Goldsmith in Parliament, as I would dislike any greeny toad. Having had until the last Election a Limp-dim MP I know just how much they lie. When I complained about the high energy prices his response was “wait until we pass the green scheme, it will make energy cheaper”. Since his party hiked, deliberately, the prices of energy it failed, the charges just appeared on energy bill for ever and a day.
David Lammy MP went on to say that since the Labour Party got only 3.7 percent of the vote, they were clearly no longer a viable party. He would be resigning his seat and urging his colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party to follow suit.
Or did I dream that?
The by-election is a non-event.
Rich-mond is almost London Bubble Remain ground zero. The butt-hurt EU suckers had a chance to change drippy, useless MP Zac (Pro-Brexit) for a drippy useless female ( Pro-EU suck) at no real cost to them. That is all of it.
Some dozy twat in the BluLabourGraph wrote that it made an election less likely. Well it does but not for the reasons he thought.
It shows that MPs who put their views over their voters will get it in the neck. There are far more of those in the Remain gang. A lot of BluLab and ZaNu collars will have started to feel much tighter now.
They won’t want to risk it.
Even if the court proves false and treacherous Brexit will win the HoC.
This. Sometimes, it’s not about who got voted in, but rather which fucker got voted out. It’s the only sanction that we have and I favour ladling it on.
Here in the USA, I’ve long argued that we should pick a few states each time and raise money in all 50 to fund challengers to faithless incumbents there. Sure, the replacement might not be great, but if they’re bad enough we can destroy them too.
Most politicians operate in an insulated cocoon. It’s time to introduce them to a negative feedback cycle. They’ll get the message, eventually.
Here in the USA, I’ve long argued that we should pick a few states each time and raise money in all 50 to fund challengers to faithless incumbents there. Sure, the replacement might not be great, but if they’re bad enough we can destroy them too.
One such candidate is claiming he cost Kelly Ayotte her Senate seat in NH.
Richmond voted 72% for remain in the referendum. This time round the remain candidate could only muster 49%. Support for remain seems to be falling.
I also note that the Labour vote was lower than its membership. Maybe that vast army of new members aren’t all that effective.
“I’ve already spoken to people in Richmond and they’re telling me that they’re having Libgret”…
All the more so following one of the first interviews given by the new MP. (Car crash doesn’t do it justice).
Here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn3vuKEgTbs
The MP’s manifest limitations are cruelly exposed by sensible questioning from the fragrant JHB & has to be rescued by a bloke.
(Oh the shame !)
I force myself to read (some) of the Economist magazine – because they (with intense dishonest) pretend to be a “Classical Liberal” publication. But reading the Guardian is a level of self abuse that is extreme even by my standards – I can imagine why anyone would, without being paid, touch the Guardian “newspaper”.
As for Richmond – the locals (and I happen to know people who live there) were very irritated by Mr Goldsmith wasting lots of money and time by calling a byelection. It was NOT a vote against British Independence. And Natalie is quite right – even if it was such a vote (which it was not) it does not matter anyway – as this was a “Remain” area in the referendum.
And by the way people why are we still using the nonsense word “Brexit”? If we mean British Independence that is what we should say. I am tired of a certain Prime Minister continually saying “Brexit means Brexit” (as an excuse for doing NOTHING to secure the independence from E.U. law that we voted for) – the Prime Minister might as well say “xfigie means xfigie” as the lady has never defined what this world “Brexit” (which did not appear on the referendum ballot paper) means.
We did not vote for “Brexit” (or xfigie) – we voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, for E.U. law to no longer be valid in this country.
Picky, picky, picky.
Tsk.