9 thoughts on “Jess Phillips re-elected”

  1. Ukip did badly since people wrongly think that Brexit is an achieved done deal and therefore ‘safe’.

    They don’t realise the leaving negotiations haven’t even STARTED yet – the point being that many of Ukip’s votes had recently come from Labour (not the Tories) and have now gone back there.
    Voting has always tended tribal in this country – a bit like football supporters – thus you get fleeting aberrations which soon pass and revert to type.
    That’s (partly) why we are stuck with the inertia of a two and a half party system, which helps explain why Davies (the GOOD) and Phillips (the BAD) and Corbyn (the UGLY) are still still there.
    I really can’t see it changing anytime soon.

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    • Yes Mac, I was lucky enough to be at the count as the first exit polls came in.
      We couldn’t believe them.
      At first….

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  3. That has to be the maddest election night I’ve ever experienced. So many different things going on. I just give up on this country. It looks like half the people who voted UKIP in 2015 went and voted Labour. That’s just unbelievable to me. Do they actually think Labour will give them what the public voted for, i.e. to get out of the EU and EVERY EU BODY including the single market and customs union?

    Already all the media commentators are talking about a “softer” Brexit. Gina Miller, the snake, has said that this result proves that the public voted against an “extreme” or “hard” brexit (completely dishonest and pure speculation). Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the House of Commons vote to hold a referendum agreeing that if more than 50% voted Leave it would mean coming out of single market and the customs union and everything else associated with the EU? Didn’t Cameron and Osborne promise this? Didn’t the Tories send out leaflets to the public informing them of this? I voted to leave the EU based on this understanding, as I believe everyone who voted leave did.

    I really can’t make head nor tail of this result. Why did Labour do so well? Was it due to a surge in brainwashed youths voting for what they perceived as more free stuff and a chance of full-blown socialism? Or was it the result of May’s manifesto being spun negatively by the media, e.g. the so-called “dementia tax” and the “attack on the elderly” in the form of the means-tested Winter Fuel Allowance? I saw these two changes as very left-wing and, in fact, the latter was taken from Labour’s 2015 manifesto. The “dementia tax” actually improves people’s financial position if they end up in a care home as they get left with around £77,000 more. Did many elderly Tory voters abstain or vote Labour because they misunderstood the policy and were fearful? It seems to me that it doesn’t matter how left-wing the Tories become, the media and the Left will call them nasty, uncaring and far-right.

    If I was an adviser at the top of the Tory party, I’d advise them to get rid of May and get a shortlist of better candidates for potential leadership, e.g. Jacob Rees Mogg, Andrea Leadsom, Philip Davies and David Davis. Those are just off the top of my head but I’m sure there are others.

    I was led to believe by the BBC, Telegraph and Huffington Post during the night that Philip Davies had lost his seat to Labour, yet it wasn’t even close. If I was Mr Davies, I’d be thinking of legal action because there are many recent articles accusing him of hating women , all because he’s been daring to fight for true equality.

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  4. Oh come on Mike. This is easily offset by Davies’s victory in Shipley. The real beauty about it was the MSM reporting that he had lost early on so that the emotional devastation for feminists was even greater. That was beautiful, almost as good as Hillary’s defeat by Trump.

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  5. I think the Shipley result is far more significant, Mike. We already know that feminists can pretty much get away with anything. But Philip Davies has proved that you can speak out against feminism without losing your seat.

    In the long term, that may prove to be a huge step forward.

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  6. It takes a lot of manhating bigots to elect a manhating bigot, so if you’re a manhating bigot, Birmingham Yardley is the place to be!
    The rest of you should consider moving to a man-friendly country. Thailand, Mexico, Colombia?

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  7. I wouldn’t worry too much. Jess Phillips is one of a lengthening list of Labour and Liberal women whose outlook on the world is dominated entirely by their evil feminist ideology. The more this woman remains in the public eye, the more she will be seen by people nationally to be the vile obnoxious bigoted ideologue she actually is. Feminists are becoming an endangered species, and their days are numbered.

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