2014 EU/Local Election Thread - Predictions and Results

[JTG]

Labour win Hammersmith & Fulham, taking 11 seats from the Tories

 

[Gingerman]

(((Winston)))...

And he seemed so keen to fix the fabric of society.

He should have been standing for election in Barking....

 

[JTG]

Bristol results a bit confused but essentially:
Labour up four
Greens up two
Tories up one
UKIP up one
Lib Dems down seven

In Rochdale the Lib Dems lost four seats, leaving them with just one councillor on an authority they controlled four years ago

 

[Buddy Bradley]

How come the BBC are reporting that UKIP have: "...made great gains at the expense of the Conservatives and Labour" when their numbers show that Labour have actually gained 80 or so seats while the Lib Dems have lost about the same?

 

[Dogsauce]

Labour win Hammersmith & Fulham, taking 11 seats from the Tories

Now that's worth a smile, hugely cunty 'flagship' Tory council that shut down soup kitchens and has been flogging off council houses to private developers.

This is where we see Labour behave exactly the same way...

 

[Dogsauce]

I couldn't stomach the BBC footage in the end, fucking Nick Robinson, so slept instead.

 

[redsquirrel]

How come the BBC are reporting that UKIP have: "...made great gains at the expense of the Conservatives and Labour" when their numbers show that Labour have actually gained 80 or so seats while the Lib Dems have lost about the same?

Yeah but outside of London Labour's showing has been very poor they lost a control of Thurrock to NOC through a UKIP gain and UKIP gains have stopped the progress Labour wanted to make.

 

[J Ed]

In Rotherham UKIP won 10 of the 21 seats up for election, 7 from Labour, 2 from the Conservatives and held onto the one it won in a by election last year.
Doncaster results not announced until this afternoon.

Not surprising considers McShame + New Labour parachuting

Expect more of the same

 

[articul8]

between Miliband, articul8, Andy Newman...Swindon's weird and fucked.

What have I got to do re Swindon

 

[Dogsauce]

I guess in labour strongholds there will be a strong UKIP tactical vote from Tories as well as the disaffected labour vote - this might depress the overall Tory vote percentage nationally.

 

[The39thStep]

Posadists take Sea of Tranquility Central

 

[The39thStep]

What have I got to do re Swindon

Member of Andy Newmans party

 

[bolshiebhoy]

That'll show you Swindon Lab. In a poor night of results the Swindon Lab candidate who gained most votes and came closest to a gain (with almost zero help from the party machine who had given up on that ward, "what are you doing here" one of them said to her last night!) was the mad old Irish woman my mum Maura Clarke who knocked on doors and said "hello, I'm not a blairite I'm an old fashioned socialist" Poor show that not one of them helped me tally her votes at the count, and I'm not even a member. None of the candidates they pulled the stops out for came close to her vote.

http://www.swindonnews.org.uk/local-election-results/

 

[J Ed]

Breaking News: Croydon votes to join the Donetsk People's Republic

 

[moochedit]

No change at all in cov still 43 labour and 11 tory.

http://www.coventry.gov.uk/info/100...ntry_city_council_local_elections-may_22_2014

 

[JTG]

How come the BBC are reporting that UKIP have: "...made great gains at the expense of the Conservatives and Labour" when their numbers show that Labour have actually gained 80 or so seats while the Lib Dems have lost about the same?

Take Bristol. Only one Ukip gain but in a ward Labour would have hoped to gain from LD. Other wards they failed to gain in where there were strong Ukip or Green showings - and where there was no Ukip candidate they romped home. Suggests that where there's an alternative people are looking elsewhere.
Ukip posed more of an obstacle to Labour gainsi in trad white working class areas than they did to Tories in the affluent parts of the city.

 

[redsquirrel]

Quick review

Here are the councils that have changed hands so far.

Conservatives
Losses (all to no overal control - NOC)
Basildon
Brentwood
Castle Point
Maidstone
Peterborough
Purbeck
Southend-on- Sea

Labour
Gains
Cambridge (from NOC)
Merton (from NOC)
Hammersmith & Fulham (from Consevatives)

Losses
Thurrock (to NOC)

Lib Dems
Losses
Portsmouth (to NOC)

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Posadists take Sea of Tranquility Central

Who from?

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Roadkill]

Ukip not wn a single seat in Hull yet, about ten declared

Won one later on. Final result:

Labour 39 +2
Liberal Democrat 15 -2
Conservative 2 0
Independent 2 -1
United Kingdom Independence Party 1 +1

Results here. The Kippers came in second in a lot of wards, and not by much in some places. I despair.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

UKIP spokesman: "We don't tend to do well in London because it's cultural, educated and young."

(sourced from Twitter, and can't find the original source.)

 

[cesare]

UKIP spokesman: "We don't tend to do well in London because it's cultural, educated and young."

(sourced from Twitter, and can't find the original source.)

@mattrhodes tweeted it with a #r4today

 

[Louis MacNeice]

UKIP spokesman: "We don't tend to do well in London because it's cultural, educated and young."

(sourced from Twitter, and can't find the original source.)

Something like this was said on the BBC Today programme but not I thought by UKIP. My memory is that it was a political editorial comment along the lines of London being more multicultural, better educated and younger than the rest of the country. I'll try to check a bit later.

Anyway, given that I thought it was an editorial statement rather than a UKIP quote, it came across to me (down in London Super Mare) as a bit smug; if only we were all just a bit more London then UKIP would wither away.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[brogdale]

Paul Burstow MP @PaulBurstow
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@LibDems retain control of @SuttonCouncil taking seats from both Conservatives and Labour to increase majority.

7:42 AM - 23 May 2014

Jesus...I'm gonna need another fucking recycling bin for the coming year's shitstorm of 'Focus' leaflets that the LDs will throw at saving Brake and Burstow.
LB Sutton is a real political 'endangered species' now.

 

[redsquirrel]

Eastleigh
Sutton
Swindon

Something weird about them all

 

[goldenecitrone]

UKIP spokesman: "We don't tend to do well in London because it's cultural, educated and young."

(sourced from Twitter, and can't find the original source.)

A stunning bit of insight from UKIP there.

 

[sim667]

Jesus...I'm gonna need another fucking recycling bin for the coming year's shitstorm of 'Focus' leaflets that the LDs will throw at saving Brake and Burstow.
LB Sutton is a real political 'endangered species' now.

That said, I've worked for a number of councils, and sutton was always one of the nicest (under lib dems).

I work in elmbridge now, they're total c**ts

 

[Badgers]

So it is going really well?

 

[brogdale]

Eastleigh
Sutton
Swindon

Something weird about them all

Can't talk about the other two, but Sutton represents an example of the (literal) death of the tory party as an effective political machine in parts of the metropolitan suburbs. When I moved to the borough in the 1980's the borough was a tory 'fortress' with huge numbers of older voters prepared to work for the party and it was a sea of tory posters come election times. 30 years on, I've actually not seen one tory poster in what is a reasonably affluent outer London borough. Their failure to do any damage whatsoever to the dying LD party, (in fact the vermin have actually lost seats to the LDs), is a stark measure of the complete death of the tories as an electoral machine out here.

 

[The39thStep]

Who from?

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

No overall control

 

[cantsin]

Labour win Hammersmith & Fulham, taking 11 seats from the Tories

bit surprised by this, thought that the simple fact of ever increasing house prices/declining soc. housing etc wld mean that part of London only going one way.