Disappointing as the Uxbridge result was, the truth is, if Labour had won Uxbridge but lost Selby the media would have claimed Labour could only win amongst the "London metropolitan elite".
Winning in Selby has shown that Labour can now win in towns & villages in the blue wall.
RURAL LABOUR VICTORY
Bocking North (Braintree) By-election Result:
LAB: 48.3% (+17.4) Anthony Everard ELECTED
CON: 42.2% (+5.7)
UKP: 6.1% (-19.0)
GRN: 3.4% (-4.0)
LAB GAIN from CON
RURAL LABOUR
The latest Survation survey of
Cornwall, Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Norfolk
found that 36% of voters in the countryside now intend to vote Labour at next month’s local elections, just two points behind the Tory vote share.
Great night in Mid Beds
Making History
Great to to see hard work pay off - Big Thank You for all that played a part
We said it could be done and it can in many more Rural constituencies
Rural Labour - Town & Village On Your Side
@alistrathern
@MidBedsLabour
That Australia deal was so good for UK Farmers that the Tories want Liz Truss to do the same for Northern Ireland protocol
Jesus Mary and the wee donkey
Big Big thanks to all those still working up until the bell at 10pm in the dark tonight
you and those who worked all day in Mid Beds are legends
Truly great Labour campaign
Rural Communities coming home to Labour
Stability, Planning & Hope
@alistrathern
@MidBedsLabour
So that's us told....
Green party tell Rural Labour - you can only produce leaflets in Red and a picture of the rural countryside in the constituency is not acceptable
We are the Party of the Countryside NOW !
(and to be fair we have produced similar rural leaflets since 1945)
Ben Bradley - Conservative MP has a message for nurses and NHS workers struggling with "Winter Crisis"
If you think your not paid enough - quit because millions will do your job and not moan about it
Remember it was a Labour Government that established the Lake District National Park in May 1951
as a result of the passing of the 1949 National Parks and Access to Countryside Act.
Lewis Silkin was the Minister of Town and Country Planning
Thetford Town Council
Labour win control
now
13 Labour 3 Ind 1 Tory
Red Star Rising in Norfolk
Thetford Red Bastion - an inspirational campaigning & community based Party
@CllrTerryJermy
RURAL LABOUR
The latest Survation survey of
Cornwall, Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Norfolk
found that 36% of voters in the countryside now intend to vote Labour at next month’s local elections, just two points behind the Tory vote share.
BREAKING NEWS
TORY candidate Festus Akinbusoye is facing questions over whether he has taken paid leave from his taxpayer funded Police and Crime Commissioner role to campaign to win Thursday’s Mid-Bedfordshire by-election.
Freedom of Information request
We must expose Coffey's total disregard for UK Farmers
locally & nationally
We need to show Labour backs UK Farmers and we will work towards a sustainable food system involving all stake holders and farming and farm workers unions
Labour's 1968 Transport Act
Saved the UK canal Network
Barbara Castle
"This Act offers new hope for those who love and use our canals, whether for cruising, angling or just walking on the towpath"
Cameron's old seat
Witney North and East (Oxfordshire) council result:
Lab: 40.1% (+14.3)
Con: 30.4% (-22.6)
Grn: 23.5% (+15.9)
RefUK: 6.0% (+6.0)
Lab GAIN from Con
@duncanenright
@WitneyLabourCLP
It's a lovely day to leaflet
Those leaflets are not going to be delivered without you
we are not Tories who pay to have leaflets delivered
We are an election army
The Chipping Norton Set
Chipping Norton (Oxfordshire)
LAB: 43% (+9) GEOFF SAUL
CON: 41% (-4)
GRN: 11% (+8)
LDM: 6% (-10)
No UKIP (-2) as previous
Labour GAIN from Conservative
We can win big on 4th May
If we do the ground work
Keep up the Rural Labour visibility
stalls, leafleting, cavalcade, tweets, social media post and canvasing
Hows the election day committee room going
Let's do this !!!
Tory activists have opted out of May's Council elections - leaving it to their candidates and paid deliveries
We need to keep harvesting votes
Labour winning in town and village