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Why Labour Might Be About to Lose the Runcorn By-Election: Because it Hates its Own Voters

by Steven Tucker
29 April 2025 7:00 AM

Sometime last year, I was deeply alarmed to observe a full-blown black African witchdoctor, dressed in literal leopard-pelts and animal-tooth necklace, standing patiently in line at my town-centre branch of Greggs to buy himself a steak bake. I knew that the post-Blair, post-Boriswave flood of uncontrolled mass immigration into the nation had changed the demographics of my previously lily-white hometown radically, but not quite this radically. What next, Mayan blood-sacrifices taking place in the freezer aisles at Home & Bargain?

However, as I then walked past the nearby New Age shop and observed a sign outside advertising the presence of an “Authentic African Healer” for gullible crystal-loving customers to consult in-store that day, I realised to my profound relief he must have been nothing more than a novelty fortune-teller in fancy-dress, rather than Baron Samedi moving into the neighbourhood. He probably hailed from Wolverhampton, not Wakanda.


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DickieA
DickieA
22 days ago

You’ve moved to Halton? You’ve already “gone native” – only a Scouser calls “Home Bargains” Home and Bargain”!

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
22 days ago

Hate Not Hope – Underlying principle of Sir Two-Tier’s government.

Last edited 22 days ago by Art Simtotic
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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
22 days ago

I keep hearing Zia Farage UK is soaring in the polls but every time I look Zia Farage UK is on 25%, slightly ahead or slightly behind Labour.

It’s not hard to imagine the Zia Farage UK is the establishment’s choice to form the next government to give the appearance of democracy. They’ll be a few token tax cuts, the boats will magically stop, maybe a referendum on ECHR and Net Zero, which will be ignored like the Brexit vote. Nothing much will really change.

Britain needs restoration not “reform”. Every single law made since 1997 should be repealed, every quango closed, and the police force and judiciary need rebuilding from scratch.

Last edited 22 days ago by Lockdown Sceptic
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stewart
stewart
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Very good.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

I do agree, but maybe reform is the only other choice for now! Rather Reform headed by a donkey than the uniparty headed by the living dead!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Indeed. Quite a few laws made before 1997 should be repealed too, IMO. The question is, is there any appetite among the wider public for such a program? I don’t think there is, though it would be good to see someone try. Rupert Lowe certainly sounded like he was thinking along these lines.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
22 days ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

40% of the electorate didn’t vote last time.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

True but I doubt that many of those 40% would vote for the kind of program you are advocating. I may of course be wrong and it would be great to find out.

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Heretic
Heretic
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

That’s because they are in despair of their vote making any difference.
And no wonder, when the votes of British citizens are swamped and overwhelmed by the Outrageous Commonwealth Voting Rights in British Elections, by citizens of 56 foreign countries!

The heroic campaigners who founded “Migration Watch”, former UK Ambassador Lord Andrew Green and Oxford Professor David Coleman, have been trying to wake up the public for years to ABOLISH THE COMMONWEALTH VOTING RIGHTS in UK elections. All to no avail, because the media and politicians conceal it, and the public won’t listen.

Last edited 22 days ago by Heretic
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ellie-em
ellie-em
21 days ago
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I’ve never heard of the Commonwealth Voting Rights. 😱

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Heretic
Heretic
22 days ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Yes, of course there is an “appetite” among the public starving for change! They’ve just been waiting for some bold new ideas, like a lantern in the darkness, showing the way.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
22 days ago
Reply to  Heretic

I hope you are right

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

100%.

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Heretic
Heretic
22 days ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Hear, hear! Well said, the Lockdown Sceptic! And that’s an apt new name for Reform: “Zia Farage UK”. I like it!

Last edited 22 days ago by Heretic
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RTSC
RTSC
22 days ago

Astoundingly, it is being predicted that around 35% of the votes (obv not the local electorate since many won’t bother) will go to the Labour Party which makes it so clear it despises them.

They can’t ALL be Public Sector employees and/or Muslims, can they?

What excuse do the rest of them have?

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Lurker
Lurker
22 days ago
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They’re the professional unemployed …

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Hester
Hester
22 days ago

I dunno, The people of Canada voted in Carney! nothing suprises me anymore

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
22 days ago
Reply to  Hester

Indeed. Tragic.

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RW
RW
22 days ago
Reply to  Hester

Not really. According to the BBC, it’s hung parliament with the Liberals having exactly as many seats (168) as all other parties together.

Trump’s persistent attempts to be the playground bully who keeps whining about being bullied all the time while smashing other kid’s toys left, right and center were bound to help politicians opposed to him. That’s a political classic: In case of trouble at home, make war on a foreign country. Still helps if it’s only a rethorical war.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
22 days ago

Indeed they hate their own voters, as did (and probably still do) the Fake Conservatives, as famously pointed out by Hitchens on Question Time, talking about “Slippery Dave” Cameron. Worth searching out the clip on YouTube just to see Justine Greening’s face.

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Heretic
Heretic
22 days ago

Excellent article by Steven Tucker, and a nice photo of Nigel with Reform’s new Trojan Horse.

Reform UK’s Runcorn candidate welcomed Syrian and Afghan refugees – but now ‘fully supports net zero immigration’

Councillor expelled from Cheshire East Conservative group – Cheshire Live
“Cllr Sarah Pochin has been expelled by Cheshire East Tories after she agreed to become mayor when the Independents and Labour voted for her”

Remember: A Vote for Reform is a Vote for the Caliphate

Last edited 22 days ago by Heretic
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Gezza England
Gezza England
22 days ago
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Classic Farage – shit all over the local party by dumping some outsider on them.

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Purpleone
Purpleone
22 days ago

Maybe it’s just me, but why does Farage seem to always wander about with very dark sunglasses on – not being able to see the whites of peoples eyes is not good to build trust… hasn’t anyone told him that?

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Heretic
Heretic
22 days ago
Reply to  Purpleone

Maybe it’s because of that nasty Only Fans prostitute who threw a milkshake in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, as he described his shock afterward, since he didn’t know whether the liquid was something acid or toxic.

I don’t blame him for taking precautions now by wearing sunglasses.

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DiscoveredJoys
DiscoveredJoys
22 days ago

A great deal of party politics in the UK, especially in cities, has been ‘Machine Politics’.
Wikipedia:

In the politics of representative democracies, a political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives (such as money or political jobs) and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity. The machine’s power is based on the ability of the boss or group to get out the vote for their candidates on election day.

But the Conservatives have lost their machine power, and Labour are realising that their machine power is running away through their fingers. Reform and various Muslim organisations are picking up the disaffected. I guess ‘Machine Politics’ wins – until the machine becomes worn out and breaks down.

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LizT
LizT
21 days ago

Before scoffing at the healing power of crystals perhaps the author should think about crystal radios. Crystals do have healing powers, only those irredeemably wedded to prescription drugs think otherwise

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