2024-03-05
Both Tory and Labour parties were not only trounced by George Galloway (12,335 votes and now inevitably, with the possible exception of Andrew Bridgen, every MP's favourite bogey man) but also by a virtually unknown independent in second place, David Anthony Tully (6,638 votes) - ie: 18,973 taken together - against 6,133 for both Tories and Labour combined.
That is a result that absolutely defies the usual lofty glossing over and dismissal.
Of course it's a "protest vote". It's also a "collapse of stout parties" vote.
It says "NO NO NO" by a margin of 3 to 1 against the combined main parties, behind whom came the LibDems and Reform (the parties that we are supposed to turn to when dissatisfied with the main parties) with a mere 4,132 between them.
And trailing behind them, in the far "also ran" distance, came the Green candidate with a risible 436.
Anybody who thinks that this is any kind of endorsement of the UN's "green" agendas, so assiduously promoted by the main UK body politic, needs some serious remedial lessons in arithmetic.
OK, this was a by-election, so maybe we can't expect the same sort of result at the national level at the next general election, but maybe it comes close to showing what the Great British voters really think of our politicians.
But it also demonstrates that we need not fear voting for the candidate whom we really prefer.
Voting tactically to keep out the main party that we don't want, by giving our support to another main party that we actually also don't want, is simply to surrender our vote to "the establishment".
If we don't want "the establishment" to continue in power, then we can't vote for any party of "the establishment" - doing that doesn't just waste our vote, it actually negates the vote of somebody who did vote for our preferred candidate. It is truly to vote against our own interests, and that makes no sense.
Likewise if we don't want any candidate on the ballot sheet, then either don't vote, or spoil your paper by writing "None of the above" - the latter is a clear expression of rejection, whereas the former is readily interpreted as disinterest, which is not the case. Numbers of spoilt papers are (or should be) reported.
If we all voted according to our conscience, we would certainly surprise ourselves, and we might even usher in a new parliamentary paradigm where our representatives actually represent their constituents' views rather than the globalist UN-WEF views.
Wouldn't that be something?
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