I should mention the Peterborough by-election. Personally I'm now taking a more Buddhist attitude to Brexit. All you can really do is make the argument and hope enough other people agree with you. If you don't have the numbers you don't have the numbers, and it's hard to know who has the numbers at the moment.
Although the Brexit Party narrowly lost yesterday it's probably a good result for them. I say that because firstly, it suggests that they very much can win seats, and because secondly it'll force them to sharpen the spear tip going forward.
At any future general election every seat will be a unique set of circumstances. To win you really need a good candidate who also suits the local landscape. You can't put a Tory-esq candidate in a Labour-voting area and just expect Brexit to do the rest. So I fully expect the Brexit Party to learn from this experience and use it to their advantage going forward. This is something that doesn't seem to have been mentioned by too many people, but the Brexit Party is the only party that is evolving to match the political landscape. Unlike the other parties they do actually learn from their mistakes.
Interesting times.
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