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Bad day for UK ruling Conservative Party as they lose two out of three by-elections (www.euronews.com)

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Thursday was a bad day for the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak although not as bad as some people had predicted.

Many thought his ruling Conservative Party would lose former PM Boris Johnson's old seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip on the outskirts of London.

That didn't happen but it was a close contest for a constituency regarded as a 'safe' Tory seat. In the end, there was a 6.7% swing to Labour but the Conservatives won it by 495 votes.

However, elsewhere the ruling party was heavily defeated.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is indeed a bad day for the UK when the Tories still win a seat after all they have done to the country in the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Decades, multiple fucking decades of unforgivable destruction.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly, how the fuck did they retain a seat.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some cunts will lie with the literal devil, rather than change their tribal identity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

To be fair to the devil, if I had to spend some time with the devil or Suella Braverman, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Moog or someone else from the Tory leadership I would probably prefer the literal devil. About the only thing worse than the Tories would be someone from the DUP.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Rupert Murdoch. Propaganda is a a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They fought it on a purely local issue. The mayor of London is planning on extending the ultra low emission zone into that area. People are pissed.

Even the they only won by about 400 votes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Labour has constantly telegraphed they are just as spineless as the tories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Stockbroker belt

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