Peterborough byelection result: Labour scrapes past Brexit party to hold seat

The Guardian ^ | 7 June 2019 | Rajeev Syal

[Cronos]

Labour has held on to the marginal seat of Peterborough, defeating predictions that the contest could deliver a first byelection victory to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.

Addressing her supporters early on Friday following the count, Labour candidate Lisa Forbes said: “Tonight’s result is significant because it shows that the politics of division will never win.”

Forbes won 10,484 votes, beating the Brexit party’s Mike Greene, who took 9,801 votes, a margin of just 683. The Conservatives were beaten into third place with 7,243 votes. Turnout was 48%.

Nigel Farage, the Brexit party leader, left the count through a backdoor just minutes before the result was announced.

Brexit party candidate Mike Greene gives a thumbs down as Lisa Forbes gives her winners speech. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA....Brexit party insiders said Labour’s reliance upon a mainly Pakistani vote in inner-city wards had been the difference between the parties. “Some of these houses had 14 people in them registered to vote. It would be interesting to see what proportion voted Labour,” said one.

..Forbes faced controversy in the week before the poll over a Facebook post she “liked” which said Theresa May has a “Zionist slave masters agenda”.

[Cronos]

You can't read much regarding the GE in this by-election. It was tight between Labour and Brexit. It does look like the Tories are dead no matter what they do and that Labour is pushed further to anti-semitism. But the Brexit party doesn't have any agenda, so it's still not a force yet

[qaz123]

Too close...with that many votes, total, a recount would be easy and a quick look at any fraud that may have taken place. Everyone seems to be in a panic over Farage and the Brexit Party. If it’s that close, definitely take another look.

[Celtic Conservative]

Pakistanis, Britains mexicans.

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[Cronos]

Worse, much, much, much worse.

Imagine if the Mexicans had a specific agenda to convert you to “Latino-culture-religion” by the sword and to be completely, totally religiously and culturally the opposite of you.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Yet Merkel and the EU wanted to accelerate the immigration of regressive muslims into Europe in order to destroy national identity and make it easier to forge the superstate of their dreams and everybody else’s nightmares.

[Cronos]

well "the EU" didn't - Merkel's plans were voted down.

And the UK's Muslim problem is created by the UK itself