May 5, 20178 yr Rape Clause Ruth was trying to convince people that the elections had been run on local issues. Rape Clause Ruth has a lot of cheek given that the Tory party didn't come up with a single policy during the entire campaign. Signal is that they're planning on the same for the GE. Say what you want about the SNPs constitution obsession but they've always put up truck loads of policy alongside it and over past decade have a proven track record of delivering those policies. Looking at the council campaign you'd quite rightly assume as an uninvolved third party that the unionists were the ones obsessed.
May 5, 20178 yr Good riddance UKIP At least they achieved what they set out to do but Nuttall is no Farage.
May 5, 20178 yr Author Good riddance UKIP *.* Unionist media seem to be spinning a 7 seat SNP gain across the country into a 7 seat loss :') The tories keep going on about the SNP's 'obsession with independence', but Ruth Davidson and her abusers are the ones that have turned this council election into an independence referendum and the ones dividing the country lmao. truly despise them! Edited May 5, 20178 yr by Andrew.
May 5, 20178 yr The Tories and Republicans are really despicable. They are all about power and how to get it and keep it at all costs.
May 5, 20178 yr Well UKIP have achieved what they wanted (British independence) so there is no point in voting for them now, no surprise they are doing badly.
May 5, 20178 yr *.* Unionist media seem to be spinning a 7 seat SNP gain across the country into a 7 seat loss :') But, the BBC is currently saying that the SNP HAVE lost 7 seats.
May 5, 20178 yr Congratulations to Mebyon Kernow on becoming the seventh largest party / grouping in county councils with four times as many councillors as UKIP :P
May 5, 20178 yr Mebyon Kernow need to be in the debates tbh. Dick Cole is surely as relevant as Leanne Wood at least!
May 5, 20178 yr Author But, the BBC is currently saying that the SNP HAVE lost 7 seats. That's why I said unionist media :kink: It turns out that we've gained 6 seats from 2012 (where we got 425) but in the last five years that has risen to 438 with by-elections so it's a 7 seat loss from then. My mistake!
May 5, 20178 yr Mebyon Kernow need to be in the debates tbh. Dick Cole is surely as relevant as Leanne Wood at least! *snigger*.
May 5, 20178 yr That's why I said unionist media :kink: It turns out that we've gained 6 seats from 2012 (where we got 425) but in the last five years that has risen to 438 with by-elections so it's a 7 seat loss from then. My mistake! It's counted from 2012 ignoring by-elections. Their count is done on the notional results of the 8 additional councillors.
May 5, 20178 yr Whilst Ukip avoided a complete wipeout by a hair's breadth, one party did suffer a wipeout, albeit from a much lower base, as the Liberal Party (not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats) lost all 3 of the seats that it was standing in. Not that anyone saw that as a surprise, particularly those people who didn't realise that it was still going.
May 5, 20178 yr Strangely, UKIP's single seat was actually a gain. They lost every single seat they were defending which may well have created some sort of record.
May 5, 20178 yr The only county council seat that UKIP were able to win (Padiham and Burnley West) was the first county council seat that the BNP won in June 2009. I think that says it all.
May 6, 20178 yr Well UKIP have achieved what they wanted (British independence) so there is no point in voting for them now, no surprise they are doing badly. ISTM they will hang around until Brexit is officially completed though, just in case...
May 6, 20178 yr ISTM they will hang around until Brexit is officially completed though, just in case... Just in case what, David Davis and Liam Fox have a change of heart? http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o585/cwmayer1/18268449_10158731417395650_3628349148988516975_n_zpsqsnalivh.jpg Absolute annihilation in Greater Manchester with about 10% more of the first preference vote than I was expecting. A substantial silver lining on an otherwise awful set of results.
May 6, 20178 yr That's what Altrincham, Cheadle Hulme, just to the West of Bolton and Prestwich that the Tories won? (trying to roughly line that map up with the actual map of GM. I did think it would be a closer fight and tbh was expecting a run off. The shock for me was the thrashing Burnham gave the Trafford Council leader in Trafford.
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