By-Election Blues for Boris

 

There has been a major political upset in Thursday's by election for the constituency of Chesham and Amersham. On the 4th of April the Tory incumbent, Cheryl Gillan died and it was assumed that she would be replaced by her fellow Conservative, Peter Fleet; seeing as she had a 55.4% majority with a +5% swing in the 2019 general election. But then something unbelievable happened. Fleet was defeated by the Liberal Democrat Sarah Green. She overturned what was thought to be a very safe Tory seat with an incredible swing of +30.4%. The turnout was incredibly high, 83.6% which might have contributed to this bombshell. It also took place a few days after Boris Johnson pulled the rug out over the lockdown ending, complying with "medical advice" to extend it another month, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/06/boris-and-trump-return.html; therefore we should have expected the electorate to lash out. Who can blame them? However there is something else afoot that is much more sinister; and we've seen it before, at the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election of 2019, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/08/boris-and-nigel.html. Six weeks before the Chesham and Amersham by-election a Lib-Dem and former Conservative MP, Philip Lee, called for another coalition of convenience and, exactly like with Brecon and Radnorshire, he asked the Labour Party and Green Party not to stand candidates. He suggested those parties should ask their supporters to vote Lib-Dem instead just to flip the seat. This would not only lose the Tories a prime constituency, but also act as revenge for the Conservative takeover of Hartlepool, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hartlepool_by-election.
 
A new hashtag suddenly started trending #ProgressiveAlliance. As it happened, Labour and the Greens did fight the seat, but lost; Labour knocked into fourth place with an embarrassing 622 votes, their worst performance ever in a by-election. This means that the pact suggested by Philip Lee and rejected by the party leaders was approved of at the grass roots level. The idea of some kind of partnership between all the centre left British parties has grown wings and is now being seriously considered following the Chesham and Amersham victory. None other than Tony Blair is its most prominent champion. This could cause serious problems for the Conservatives. So far they have maintained control partly because liberals are so split and obsessed with infighting, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/10/jeremy-corbyn-suspended.html. Putting aside their difference, the left and centre left could do a Chesham and Amersham anytime they like and destroy Boris' rule at the next general election in May 2024. Theoretically there is nothing that could stop this honour among thieves. There is no guarantee that this dastardly scheme would work though. The electorate and constituency party members may not cooperate on a national scale and/or as a long term strategy. It would mean minority UK-wide party members in the Celtic nations would have to sell off their countries to the euro-nationalists (I know that's an oxymoron, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-i-am-not-welsh-nationalist.html). Plaid Cymru would be given Wales and the SNP would be given Scotland. Would they really agree to this surrender? The strategy definitely would not work in Northern Ireland where political divisions are much deeper and more concrete. Sargon of Akkad and his team have, as usual, provided a good analysis, see: https://www.bitchute.com/video/llQxFbOM6nA/. But does it really matter anymore? There was a time not long ago when I would have cared; pre-Brexit and when Boris was Britain's Trump, but times have changed and we're back to the bad old days of politics I'm afraid. "They're all the same", "the government always wins", "two cheeks of the same arse" and all the other very true clichés that applied from time immemorial, now apply again. It could be worse though. We do have Brexit and we don't have another general election for almost three years. I believe Boris can find a way to break free. If he can't then he will remain just one more globalist puppet. We can only pray that he does.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/12/polling-day.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/05/general-election-result.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/05/reconsidering-voting.html.