Best for Britain, an anti-Brexit campaign group which is promoting tactical voting as a way of unseating as many Conservative MPs as possible, has suggested Labour are on course to win Stroud with 44 per cent of the vote. They predict Dr Simon Opher will take the seat from incumbent Tory Siobhan Baillie who is predicted to receive 25.70 per cent of the vote while the Green Party’s Pete Kennedy would poll more than 20 per cent of the vote.
They think some seven per cent of the electorate will back Reform UK and one per cent will vote for the Lib Dems with the two per cent of the vote going to the other candidates. Given the prediction that the Conservatives cannot win in Stroud, Mr Kennedy is calling for more people to back him to push the Tories into third place. But while Ms Baillie agrees that there should not be any tactical voting in Stroud she warns against voting Green as they have ceased to be “cuddly tree huggers”.
And she claims the Labour Party are socialists pretending to be centrist Tories. Meanwhile, Dr Opher is certain the polls will be wrong and he does not share the Green’s confidence in the predictions. He believes it is obvious the final Tory vote will be much higher than predicted.
Dr Opher said: “A lot of those who are currently appearing as ‘don’t knows’ are people who previously voted Conservative, and who are toying with the idea of taking their vote elsewhere. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to assume that, in the privacy of the v.
