Copeland & Stoke

Jeremy Corbyn is lucky, his party on the other hand, extremely unlucky.

Labour lost to the Tories in Copeland (a seat that Labour had kept since the 1930's, and first time since Thatcher that a sitting government wins a seat from the opposition), but narrowly kept Stoke.

UKIP are now a laughing stoke, and Paul Nuttall is finished, there's no point dwelling on them anymore.

Labour on the other hand are now going to keep Jeremy Corbyn as their leader, good for him, bad for the party.

Why is it bad? Well he has no direction of where his leadership wants to go, he isn't interested in listening to other views (hence McDonnell's blame of Blair), and people just don't have the faith in him.

Ironically McDonnell blaming Blair for the loss of Copeland, is just as laughable as Blair blaming Corbyn for the Brexit vote.

There's one other reason why Labour lost Copeland, they took that safe seat for granted, the didn't think a seat they had always held would leave them for the Tories, they were wrong, and have been rightly punished.

The next general election will see Theresa May win fantastically, Labour lose sorely, and the country will be without a true opposition to hold the government to account.

The longer Corbyn stays as leader, the longer it'll take to regain a lot of lost constituencies.