Forwarded by Joe Bailey
WHEN she resigned the Labour whip and left the party to serve as an
independent in February, Stockport MP Ann Coffey cited Labour’s Brexit
policy as a reason for her departure. The previous month she had conducted a poll of 4,500 households in her Greater Manchester constituency, asking for their views on Brexit.Advocating a second vote, she said: “What is striking is that of those who responded 71% now feel ‘the people’ should have the final say on the Brexit deal and 72 % said that remaining in the EU should be an option in another referendum. Of those who replied to say they voted leave in 2016, 13% said they would now vote remain.”
With Coffey abandoning Labour after 27 years an MP, it is perhaps little surprise that her constituents followed suit in the European elections. Labour attracted 10,738 in the borough, coming a distant third behind the local victors, the Liberal Democrats (23,135), and the Brexit party, which came a close second (22,462).
The Greens were fourth with 10,705 and the Conservatives fifth with 5,451: a particularly poor show for a party with two out of four of Stockport’s MPs (William Wragg in Hazel Grove and Mary Robinson in Cheadle, both Lib Dem/Tory marginals). Change UK, Coffey’s new party, were sixth, with 2,599.
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Personally I think the central thesis of the article, "With Coffey abandoning Labour after 27 years an MP, it is perhaps little surprise that her constituents followed suit in the European election" is crap. Surely a serious examination of the question as to whether Labour voters in Stockport did or did not follow Coffey, would have had something to say about the abysmal performance of Coffey's new party, Change UK.
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