A storming victory for the Conservatives at Aberdeen South. A Labour collapse at Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, from a close second to a distant fourth. And what of Makerfield?
Standing against the Prime Minister by standing for the Prime Minister's party, more votes for Andy Burnham than for all 13 other candidates put together. A Restore Britain total that was less than one third of the Labour majority over Reform UK. A lost Conservative deposit. 10 candidates with less than one per cent apiece, including both the Green and the Liberal Democrat. Precisely 18 votes for each of the Libertarian Party candidate, the Climate Party candidate, and Robert Pownall, an Independent dressed as a fox.
Count Binface and Howling Laud Hope in seventh and eighth place, ahead of Rejoin EU, the Libertarian Party, the Climate Party, and all three Independents, six candidates whose combined vote was lower than the combined vote for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and for the leader of the Recyclons from the planet Sigma IX.
And campaigning against a CO2 pipeline from the Peak District to Morecambe Bay, nowhere near Wigan, an Independent called Paul Gould took eight votes, fewer than the number of signatures that he had needed to make it onto the ballot paper, signatures that he had collected door-to-door a good hour away from his own door.
All in all, it makes you proud to be British.
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