May 4, 20187 yr 84 more votes and the Lib Dems would have won Winchester! Ouch. I saw that they were only a couple seats short but hadn’t seen the individual results.
May 4, 20187 yr Another stunning 'success' for FPTP... :rolleyes: https://democracy.cheltenham.gov.uk/mgElect...mp;RPID=3108398 FPTP always throws up extreme results in the local elections unfortunately.
May 4, 20187 yr YES at Vidcapper's Cheltenham ward going remain/Lib Dem. Respect the WILL OF THE CHELTENHAM PEOPLE!!! :D
May 4, 20187 yr Eh we did alright Lib Dem got some surprises, but no huge surprise reaally at locals. In North East you have the choice of Lab or Lib, and imagine if the Lab council has been a bit shet. These results confirm Jeremy reaaaaally should tap into the Remain vote more and not stick to the Brexit line. Brexit is keeping the Landed Gentry richos afloat. They will not vote Labour, so Labour should go for the remain vote. It should be obvious!
May 4, 20187 yr The Tories have lost Trafford. It must particularly sting for them to have lost Altrincham to the greens! Otherwise no major upsets across GM as Labour lose a handful of seats over its ongoing anti-semitism but gains a few seats along the way. Doesn’t appear to have been a major blow for the Tories nationally Even though Tories have MORE, but the msm, BBTory and Tories wanted to smear Labour before locals .
May 4, 20187 yr Author YES at Vidcapper's Cheltenham ward going remain/Lib Dem. Respect the WILL OF THE CHELTENHAM PEOPLE!!! :D Hardly *going* LD - it's been LD since well before I moved into it.
May 4, 20187 yr Author Even though Tories have MORE, but the msm, BBTory and Tories wanted to smear Labour before locals . I hope you're not dismissing anti-Semitism as 'simply a smear campaign'? :o
May 4, 20187 yr The BBC are sticking with their usual language. It may not be deliberate, but it is noticeable that Tories are regularly described as "taking control" or winning control" of councils while other parties' gains are described in more aggressive terms. In their headline, the BBC are saying the Lib Dems "seized control" of Richmond, almost as if they had stormed the Town Hall and ordered the Tories out at gunpoint. This isn't a one-off - it seems to happen at all local elections.
May 4, 20187 yr Awww my work borough of Barnet fell to the Tories D: Hoping my old uni borough, Kingston can go back to the Lib Dems from after they took Richmond! Oh and Waltham Forest was Labour hold, as expected, one of the candidates for the Lib Dems was someone that went to school with my younger brother and sister! I feel old~
May 4, 20187 yr UKIP wiped our as one of their ilk quips they are like theblack death and can come back unexpectedly. So kill millons across europe and go dormant for 800 yearsthen.... Ken livingstone on sky here in gran canaria blaming his fellow labour colleagues for anti semitism whining for the result. They had this excuse pre prepared as it serves the momentum deselect the bast*rds for not keeping quiet and letting jezza do what he wants narrative. For a better viewpoint of why labour didnt electrify: .K. Rowling liked James O'Brien James O'Brien @mrjamesob · 2h I’m no psephologist, but hurling abuse at people unpersuaded of Jeremy Corbyn’s magnificence doesn’t seem to have persuaded many of them to vote Labour. Tories stick by tories no matter what, clearly. Having a loyal fanbase always helps even if everyone else hates your guts... So hows that labour activist circa 2015 libdems wiped out forever gloating coming along then chaps and chapesses? Oh look picked up more seats than labour who woulda thought it! And in tree hating sheffield doing such a marv job too.... Brian cox reckons the result is about right. The electorate saying sod the lot of you......
May 4, 20187 yr Apparently Labour failed to take Wandsworth by around 150 votes. According to the Tories, holding on to a council they have controlled since the 1970s by a wafer-thin margin is a triumph.
May 4, 20187 yr And another triumph for FPTP http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c34mxdk2k...borough-council
May 4, 20187 yr These results confirm Jeremy reaaaaally should tap into the Remain vote more and not stick to the Brexit line. Brexit is keeping the Landed Gentry richos afloat. They will not vote Labour, so Labour should go for the remain vote. It should be obvious! Likely the opposite will happen after this disappointment. Labour really need to win run-of-the-mill towns which lean towards Leave such as Nuneaton and Swindon. Yes, they've also underperformed in certain middle class, Remain areas (and this may be shown through low turnout more than anything), but the former are more important to winning a parliamentary majority. Which is disgusting. If we get anything resembling Blue Labour after Corbyn then I'll VERY ANGRY okay. Edited May 4, 20187 yr by Harve
May 4, 20187 yr 62% Leave Voting Gosport now may well gain a Lib Dem controlled council in 2020! The Lib Dems also did well in Leave-voting Hull.
May 4, 20187 yr Brexit is muddying the waters. Without it Tories would basically be finished. But with it, UKIP has merged eih he Tories. I hope now they are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT, the BBC will stop putting them on question time with Garage apllllll the time, and reporting on them allll the time. No? Strange.
May 4, 20187 yr I didn't vote in this election (wasn't at home and I don't really care enough about local elections to faff about with organising a postal vote), couldn't have made a difference but my local ward flipped from Lib Dem (one of only two in Reading, curiously) to the Tories. Arse. x Reading as a whole remains controlled by Labour though. Imagine being the former Labour leader of Derby council... losing his seat to UKIP!! (Wtf are Derby doing in general)
May 4, 20187 yr Every local election sees parties embarrassed by their choice of candidate somewhere. These candidates are often standing in a ward where they have no realistic chance of being elected meaning that the vetting process was probably far from rigorous. However, this year there is a Tory candidate standing in Hastings (which just happens to be Amber Rudd's constituency) in a ward which currently has one Tory and one Labour councillor. This particular candidate claims to have been in the armed forces for many years, including serving in the Falklands conflict. Unfortunately, nobody who actually served there seems to have heard of him. Naturally the local party has been asked for comment and their response is to say that it is not a matter for the electorate. So the official line form Hastings Tories seems to be that voters shouldn't worry about whether their council candidates are blatant liars. They are clearly taking their lead from their MP. http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16201717.To...candidate_lied/ He lost. Clearly quite a lot of voters voted for the other Tory candidate, but not Lynch. https://hastings.moderngov.co.uk/mgElection...mp;RPID=1519492
May 4, 20187 yr It feels like the country wants to keep the Tories going, because they are more scared of the spectre of Corbyn than the completely realistic and present screwups of the current government. I don't think Brexit has had much of a hand in these results, other than destroying UKIP for now (who may reemerge in some form if Hard Brexit isn't adhered to). At least there's a slight swing towards the LDs country-wide but there's really not much of a change in these locals, which is really strange given the turmoil the country's in.
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