Lib/Dems win Richmond Park.

Leekbrookgull · Dec 2, 2016

2,000 maj. What next in whats left of this year ?

Tarpon · Dec 2, 2016

Poor Zac. How will he cope?

Blue Valkyrie · Dec 2, 2016

Never liked him.

vegster · Dec 2, 2016

Tarpon said:
Poor Zac. How will he cope?

Go back to UKIP?

cjd · Dec 2, 2016

I am aware that the Heathrow isue played a major part in this election but very interesting that the Lib Dem candidate was an anti Brexit campaigner.

wellquickwoody · Dec 2, 2016

Ran on an anti Brexit ticket?

spring hall convert · Dec 2, 2016

wellquickwoody said:
Ran on an anti Brexit ticket?

Yes. In an area that was thought to have voted 70/30 remain. I imagine there's a fair few Tory MP's who will be concerned.

It's an interesting one. Can't help but think his digraceful mayoral campaign factored into the result, albeit in a far smaller way.

topbanana36 · Dec 2, 2016

Not much of a surprise really liberal left Richmond. See how they fair in the next bi-election in Lincolnshire.

spring hall convert · Dec 2, 2016

vegster said:
Go back to UKIP?

Not sure he's quite the anti-elite man that Nutall's looking for in Labour's northern heartlands.

DavidinSouthampton · Dec 2, 2016

cjd said:
I am aware that the Heathrow isue played a major part in this election but very interesting that the Lib Dem candidate was an anti Brexit campaigner.

Goldsmith's resignation was over Heathrow, but the lib-dem was against that too, and radio 4 said this morning she managed to turn it in to a Brexit campaign. They also said some of it was about Goldsmith's dirty mayoral campaign.

DavidinSouthampton · Dec 2, 2016

topbanana36 said:
Not much of a surprise really liberal left Richmond. See how they fair in the next bi-election in Lincolnshire.

Sleaford was a decent Tory majority with the lib-dems nowhere, so it's hardly comparable. If the LD's won that, it would be seismic.

carteater · Dec 2, 2016

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Good morning...

Gwylan · Dec 2, 2016

topbanana36 said:
Not much of a surprise really liberal left Richmond.

Liberal left? Goldsmith had a 23,000 majority, it was one of the safest Tory seats in the country and Labour lost its deposit. You've clearly been to Richmond but I spent three years working there and it's very, very affluent.

Raleigh Chopper · Dec 2, 2016

Gwylan said:
Liberal left? Goldsmith had a 23,000 majority, it was one of the safest Tory seats in the country and Labour lost its deposit. You've clearly been to Richmond but I spent three years working there and it's very, very affluent.

And it's also full of people who have the ability to think things through properly and make the most sensible decisions.
It's just a shame that the majority of the rest of the country was unable to do this.

Simster · Dec 2, 2016

Gwylan said:
Liberal left? Goldsmith had a 23,000 majority, it was one of the safest Tory seats in the country and Labour lost its deposit. You've clearly been to Richmond but I spent three years working there and it's very, very affluent.

Exactly. It's not a shock because the LibDems poured resources into a winnable seat. But some people on here are talking as if it was a gimme when it clearly wasn't because Richmond is NOT natural LibDem territory.

I'm delighted by this result but I'd be interested to see how they might do in a seat that is very 50-50 pro/anti brexit. That would be a far better indication of the public strength of feeling on the issue.

deletebeepbeepbeep · Dec 2, 2016

Lib Dems held the seat before the last GE.

It's hardly a massive shock, everyone was mooting this could happen when Goldsmith stood down.

Also since the last GE the tories have become increasingly right wing, and unlikeable, which has probably turned off a lot of voters in Richmond overall.

Brovion · Dec 2, 2016

Raleigh Chopper said:
And it's also full of people who have the ability to think things through properly and make the most sensible decisions.
It's just a shame that the majority of the rest of the country was unable to do this.

Wow. I've read some patronising bollocks on here but that takes the biscuit.

DFL JCL · Dec 2, 2016

It would seem to me that Zac missed the point of being an MP entirely. He should represent his constituencies views. By backing brexit when there is a clear mandate from his constituency for remain he shot himself in the foot.

5ways · Dec 2, 2016

Brovion said:
Wow. I've read some patronising bollocks on here but that takes the biscuit.

Really? pop over to the Brexit thread, this wouldn't make the top 100.

Thunder Bolt · Dec 2, 2016

deletebeepbeepbeep said:
Lib Dems held the seat before the last GE.

It's hardly a massive shock, everyone was mooting this could happen when Goldsmith stood down.

Also since the last GE the tories have become increasingly right wing, and unlikeable, which has probably turned off a lot of voters in Richmond overall.

Not strictly true. The Conservatives held Richmond in 2015, and won it in 2010. Prior to that it was a Lib Dem seat.

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