5th May UK regional elections discussion and results
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It's mainly in Scotland where Labour have taken significant losses and might be 3rd to the Tories
Which tbh, isn't that shocking. Scottish Tories will always vote Tory, whereas Lab supporters are shifting their vote to the SNP, mainly I expect due to the increased power, influence and validity the SNP got after the last GE
In the rest of the country Labour have only lost 1 council (so far)
Local elections it generally boils down to two choices...
The party that wants your council tax but doesn't actually want to spend it on anything.
The other party that wants even more council tax and proceeds to spend it on irrelevant carp.
I opted for the former.
The party that wants your council tax but doesn't actually want to spend it on anything.
The other party that wants even more council tax and proceeds to spend it on irrelevant carp.
I opted for the former.
It's mainly in Scotland where Labour have taken significant losses and might be 3rd to the Tories
Which tbh, isn't that shocking. Scottish Tories will always vote Tory, whereas Lab supporters are shifting their vote to the SNP, mainly I expect due to the increased power, influence and validity the SNP got after the last GE
In the rest of the country Labour have only lost 1 council (so far)
But in the context, the English result is pretty appalling. To lose seats in the first year after a general election, with a new leader against a government that keeps making lots of mistakes, is terrible.
Just because it isn't as bad as some forecasts doesn't make it a good result. Even Michael foot did better. (1981, foot gained 988 seats) the last time labour in opposition lost seats in a local election was 1985. Even the Conservatives gained in 1999...
I find that quite shocking the level of waste in the Welsh government is frankly frightening, if I was still living there I would certainly be voting for change!
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It would help if you actually made a point.
Back to the discussion, shocking night for Labour. I blame the dissenters in the party for not uniting behind Corbyn. If Labour had presented a united front, even with Corbyn as leader, I think they would have done much better. I think the de-selection issue should be opened up for discussion now.
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You can't be that naive that you don't understand why thousands of people up and down the country are blindly voting UKIP?
You can't be that naive that you don't understand why thousands of people up and down the country are blindly voting UKIP?
So far this is going entirely as expected
I wasn't trying to big up Labours results just saying it wasn't a disaster in absolute terms, but I agree, in relative terms it still wasn't great.
The main people who seem to have done well are the nationalist parties, SNP and PC....oh and the Lib Dems actually won some stuff
My brother's not too confident at the moment due to the high turnout in Ealing which is predominately Labour. The Hillingdon turnout was quite good (43%) but that's negated somewhat by Ealing.
He needs to overturn something like a 3000 majority to get in, it's quite good fun folowing him
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You can't be that naive that you don't understand why thousands of people up and down the country are blindly voting UKIP?
Still avoiding the actual question though arnt you lol. Typical ukip supporter cant even explain why he voted for them trololol
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Bit of an aside, but we had a vote on whether to keep a mayoral system or to go back to a committee system. Not a huge majority, but I feel like the question was biased in favour of the mayor. It basically said "this is the status quo option".
Anyway, it's a difficult issue to feel especially passionate about, but the decade or so when we had a tory mayor in an overwhelmingly labour controlled council which completely crippled their ability to do anything should be evidence enough against the system. At least on that sort of scale.
Bit of an aside, but we had a vote on whether to keep a mayoral system or to go back to a committee system. Not a huge majority, but I feel like the question was biased in favour of the mayor. It basically said "this is the status quo option".
Anyway, it's a difficult issue to feel especially passionate about, but the decade or so when we had a tory mayor in an overwhelmingly labour controlled council which completely crippled their ability to do anything should be evidence enough against the system. At least on that sort of scale.
Because the answer is so glaringly obvious it needn't an explanation. I genuinely can't believe some of you guys are so solid.
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You can't be that naive that you don't understand why thousands of people up and down the country are blindly voting UKIP?
Well, I think it's because they are racist, sexist and homophobic knuckle draggers.
I was hoping you were going to give another reason why people vote UKIP.
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Well that's a nice thought but without any citation...
Well, you said it's the glaringly obvious reason.....and that seems like a glaringly obvious reason to me as well....
Homophobic might wanna check the London mayor candidate is pal.
Racist? Fielded quite a few BME candidates at last GE, just behind labour if I recall. I bet you call em choc ices and bountys behind close doors Amigafan you and your little imaginary migrant family.
Racist? Fielded quite a few BME candidates at last GE, just behind labour if I recall. I bet you call em choc ices and bountys behind close doors Amigafan you and your little imaginary migrant family.