2021 Local elections

[JTG]

Greens have gained from Labour in South Tyneside and Stockport, from Tories in Northumberland and from Lib Dems in Colchester

Will be interesting to see apparent swings from Lab to Green in certain areas. Certainly expect plenty of that in Bristol

 

[Steel Icarus]

To quote Malcolm X: If you stand for nothing, your party will get steamrollered even by the LibDems in the locals

 

[JTG]

Guardian reports Tories in Salford discussing the possibility that Burnham's won in the first round

 

[High Voltage]

For the first time ever, I spoiled my ballot paper yesterday evening

I was able to vote for some police thing

But there was no single candidate on the local council election that I could, in all good faith, have voted for

I had a choice of Tory, Tory lite (Lib Dems) and some random independent group of which I know absolutely nothing

 

[two sheds]

Votes not counted yet in elections but major event reported in Cornwall Live

'Ruff justice' for Police and Crime Commissioner on campaign trail
Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner candidate Alison Hernandez suffered a dog bite on election day.

She tweeted a picture of her bandaged finger after a visit to the Minor Injuries Unit at Newton Abbot Hospital.

 

[Sprocket.]

Ros Jones has returned as the elected mayor for Labour in Doncaster.

 

[JTG]

Beacon and Bents (South Tyneside) council result:

Grn: 46.5% (+34.2)
Lab: 28.3% (-28.3)
Ind: 16.9% (+16.9)
Con: 8.3% (-1.3)

No UKIP (-20.6) as prev.

Grn GAIN from Lab

That vaccine bounce is quite something

 

[Sue]

Votes not counted yet in elections but major event reported in Cornwall Live

How's the dog?

 

[Mr Moose]

How's the dog?

Being tested for rabies, poor thing. It wasn’t rabid before, but the next few days will be crucial to see if it caught it.

 

[hitmouse]

speechless
HOW?

Looks legit - its not Brian Elects or anything

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Minus 30 ....

This genuinely made me go and look up how Sunderland had voted in the referendum in case I was grievously misremembering it.

 

[The39thStep]

Tories gain an outright majority on Dudley Council

 

[glitch hiker]

I'd like to think I was reasonably politically informed, but other than saying 'Labour are shit' I find this rightward drift both confusing and depressing.

 

[ska invita]

I'd like to think I was reasonably politically informed, but other than saying 'Labour are shit' I find this rightward drift both confusing and depressing.

You;re on the right track with Labour Are Shit tbf

 

[JTG]

On the subject of Lib Dems winning in odd places - they had MPs in Burnley and Redcar relatively recently. It happens. Protest vote/all things to all men type stuff still comes off in places I guess

 

[muscovyduck]

If the names of people who've voted are being released by a polling station you need to contact the information commissioners office. That shit is hella illegal and for good reason

 

[brogdale]

If the names of people who've voted are being released by a polling station you need to contact the information commissioners office. That shit it hella illegal and for good reason

I think we can be sure that tony.c had been misinformed, tbh.

 

[Rimbaud]

along with a large chunk of the labour vote

from here (not knowing anything about any particular local circumstances) it doesn't make sense - the perceived wisdom is that labour has lost / is losing votes in the north for being too middle class and remainy.

so people are voting for a party that's generally more middle class and remainy than labour?

Not everyone in Sunderland voted Brexit you know, 39% of people who voted voted to remain. Lib Dems may be picking up these votes as many are pissed off at Labour for capitulation on Brexit.

 

[The39thStep]

Not everyone in Sunderland voted Brexit you know, 39% of people who voted voted to remain. Lib Dems may be picking up these votes as many are pissed off at Labour for capitulation on Brexit.

Except the Lib Dems aren't campaigning on rejoining and these are local council elections

 

[The39thStep]

Haha , Failsworth Independents take two seats off Labour in Oldham

 

[StoneRoad]

not sure if this has been mentioned already ...

Northumberland has gone back blue by one seat, after two seats dead-heated and straws had to be drawn. in 2017 that same situation resulted in NOC.

I used my postal vote.

 

[Rimbaud]

Except the Lib Dems aren't campaigning on rejoining and these are local council elections

I voted based on national politics rather than local council stuff and I'm sure I'm not a small minority in that - and whether they are campaigning to rejoin or not, they are perceived as the Remain Party.

Unless the vote change displayed is from the last General election rather than the last local election, and Lib Dems usually do better in locals.

 

[JTG]

More reports of a Burnham landslide. What can we conclude from this huge victory for a candidate who has personality, policies and a recent record of standing up to government?

 

[brogdale]

More reports of a Burnham landslide. What can we conclude from this huge victory for a candidate who has personality, policies and a recent record of standing up to government?

Not Corbyn; see?

 

[Mr Moose]

I'd like to think I was reasonably politically informed, but other than saying 'Labour are shit' I find this rightward drift both confusing and depressing.

I’m working with BBC news on, sound turned down. It’s a constant parade of Tories smiling and clapping.

It’s like a dream sequence from a movie when the sound of laughing inside a tormented soul’s head just gets louder and louder as the faces distort. Muhahaha, MUHAHAHAHAHA….

 

[JTG]

Not Corbyn; see?

Checks out

 

[Mr Moose]

John McDonnell explaining that Labour can’t go into an election without policies and he is right of course. Sadly it had a truckload of them at the GE and that didn’t work either, other than the Tories nicked some of them, hollowing them out.

People don’t usually read lots of policy, but they need to know what the party stands for something which tells people how it will govern. Starmer certainly hasn’t done that.

 

[The39thStep]

More reports of a Burnham landslide. What can we conclude from this huge victory for a candidate who has personality, policies and a recent record of standing up to government?

Got a soft spot for Burnham but to be fair he only standouts as his peers are so shite

 

[two sheds]

Sadly it had a truckload of them at the GE and that didn’t work either,

Yep too many. Seemed like near the election every day there was a new policy rather than just concentrating on the important, core ones. Did seem like an election manifesto cobbled together by huge committee.

 

[muscovyduck]

I think we can be sure that tony.c had been misinformed, tbh.

Never say never I suppose, all sorts of insane and weird leaks like this happen right under people's noses every day
ETA: in general not specific to things like this

 

[killer b]

Some local parties published local manifestos, but I don't think they actually get picked up much by voters - unless you've got a very visible and active local party, people mostly still vote on national issues IME.

I was looking at the Salford manifesto yesterday cause a friend in Salford told me he had no idea what the party stood for - mostly good stuff tbh.

https://www.salfordlabour.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/766/2021/04/Salford-Labour-Manifesto.pdf