[joeysteele]

I really am fed up of Greg Hands on about low turnouts

There's ALWAYS much lower turnouts at by-elections.
Plus this mid term tripe too.
This lot are nearing the completion of a 5 year term from 2019.
On top of being in power for 13 and a half years.

In 2021, when under Johnson the Cons GAINED Hartlepool on an only 42% turnout.
It was hailed as miraculous by Cons and their supporters.

It is extremely rare for whatever circumstances, that really rock solid seeming safe seats are lost in by-elections.
To now have lost so many in only a matter of months is unprecedented.

These 2 by- elections were horrendous for the Cons.
If they continue with their shocking rhetoric, hard-line, heartless and incompetent actions, I hope these results will in the next election, when they DARE to hold it, reflect that these recent by- elections were more the norm than arrogantly trying to dismiss them as they are trying to today.