My general feeling on the by election result

[andrewducker]

Reminder that any voting system where you can win a single seat without 50% of people thinking you're better than the alternatives is not fit for purpose.

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[andrewducker]

We don't know enough about how people would vote if they didn't have to worry about the spoiler effect.

Evidence is actually that a fair bunch of Reform voters are disaffected Labour voters who won't vote Conservative. There are plenty of Conservatives who will go Lib Dem over Reform. People are complex.

And you absolutely can't say that LibDems get wiped out first considering how they just did in the council elections. And the Greens are doing better than ever.

I don't think it's as concrete as you think.