[Merged]Brexit stuff (part 2)

[meridian]

Lib Dems win Richmond by-election on an anti-Brexit platform, overturning a 24,000 majority for Zac Goldsmith

[eek]

Lib Dems win Richmond by-election on an anti-Brexit platform, overturning a 24,000 majority for Zac Goldsmith

Hardly surprising in an area that voted 74% remain...

And it isn't going to make any difference...

[VectraMan]

Lib Dems win Richmond by-election on an anti-Brexit platform, overturning a 24,000 majority for Zac Goldsmith

Is it 11 more we need to bring down the government?

[Chuck]

Hardly surprising in an area that voted 74% remain...

And it isn't going to make any difference...

The result of this election means that Heathrow third runway can be built. The LibDem also campaigned against it, but they are irrelevant and Theresa May can ignore them.

As a message on Brexit, there is nothing to see here. The area voted strongly to Remain, so nothing has changed.

This was as much about giving Goldsmith a kicking as anything else.

[DodgyAgent]

The result of this election means that Heathrow third runway can be built. The LibDem also campaigned against it, but they are irrelevant and Theresa May can ignore them.

As a message on Brexit, there is nothing to see here. The area voted strongly to Remain, so nothing has changed.

This was as much about giving Goldsmith a kicking as anything else.

Richmond is at the heart of the British establishment

[Paddy]

The result of this election means that Heathrow third runway can be built. The LibDem also campaigned against it, but they are irrelevant and Theresa May can ignore them.

As a message on Brexit, there is nothing to see here. The area voted strongly to Remain, so nothing has changed.

This was as much about giving Goldsmith a kicking as anything else.

The by-election was called after Mr Goldsmith quit as a Tory MP in protest over plans to build a new runway at Heathrow airport.

However it swiftly became a vote about Britain's decision to leave the European Union

Richmond Park by-election: Lib Dems' Sarah Olney defeats Zac Goldsmith in Brexit backlash

[SueEllen]

The result of this election means that Heathrow third runway can be built. The LibDem also campaigned against it, but they are irrelevant and Theresa May can ignore them.

As a message on Brexit, there is nothing to see here. The area voted strongly to Remain, so nothing has changed.

This was as much about giving Goldsmith a kicking as anything else.

Over the length of parliaments about 10 MPs die. More actually die when the Tories are in power than when Labour are in power.

Added in with the actions of idiots like Goldsmith the Tory majority can end up on on a knife edge.

[jamesbrown]

Worrying reminder for pro-Remain Labour candidates in Leave seats. Sleaford by-election will be interesting too. This will worry May in two ways. First, Maidenhead looks a lot like Richmond. Second, there has to be a non-trivial risk that UKIP will generate a coalition scenario if northern voters perceive backsliding on Brexit. In all scenarios, it looks very bad indeed for Labour. Interesting times!

[Chuck]

Richmond Park by-election: Lib Dems' Sarah Olney*defeats Zac Goldsmith in Brexit backlash

Except, this wasn't a Brexit backlash. This was a confirmation of what this area had already stated, by voting (I think) around 70% to Remain.

[VectraMan]

Except, this wasn't a Brexit backlash. This was a confirmation of what this area had already stated, by voting (I think) around 70% to Remain.

If Brexit hadn't won the day then the people of Richmond wouldn't have voted for the LibDems. So to that extent it is a Brexit backlash.

According to this estimate:

https://medium.com/@chrishanretty/th...0e1#.4xtmyf5a8

152 constituencies voted Remain (it wasn't organised according to constituencies so it isn't exact).

Come on Theresa. Give us a General Election.