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‘Lib Dems will raze this place to the ground’: Mid Beds byelection duel could gift seat to Tories
(www.theguardian.com)
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"The Liberal Democrats (a centrist political party) will demolish this whole place": Mid-Bedfordshire by-election duel could lead to a Conservative win.
If the Liberal Democrats could encourage their supporters to vote Labour strategically, they might prevent handing the election to the awful Conservative Party. But parties in first-past-the-post systems rarely manage to swallow their pride for the greater good.