Satisfaction Expressed at Election Results

LGBTQIA politics watchers have given a broadly positive welcome to the results of the two UK Parliamentary by elections that took place on Thursday 19th October.  In both the seat of Mid Bedfordshire and that of Tamworth, the previous incumbent Conservative Party saw a defeat by Labour, who secured a swing of more than twenty per cent, one of their best performances since the landslide general election of 1945 when left governments came to power across Europe after the defeat of fascism and the end of the war.  Looking into the results in more detail, we can see that parties with broadly pro-LGBT policies such as the Liberal Democrats and Greens did well, although in Tamworth a lot of their supporters appeared to lend their votes to Labour in the successful effort to topple the Conservatives from the seat.  Far right parties who dislike LGBTQ+ people such as the Christian People's Alliance, The UK Independence Party, Reform UK, English Democrats and Britain First, polled in the mid hundreds each.  Anti-fascist bloggers noted that it was satisfying that the votes of hateful people were splintered across these five separate parties, thus rendering them relatively ineffectual.