by a slim majority. ~11k to ~10.

The usual suspects are already claiming, as pretty much everyone and their dog expected, that the wider result is a "vindication of Labour" as if they all voted for them because of them and what they promise, not simply becuse they are not the other lot.

Of course acknowledging the truth would leave them open to awkward questions about you know, the system and democracy.....

My inner tribalist is laughing his ass off at the scum getting turfed out but the rest of me has no excitement at all knowing all that's happened is massah changed the colour of his whip.

Also, seeing Reform creeping up in a lot of places is dreadful.