England local election results thread

[coley]

Thought you already answered that for yourself. Regardless any organisation, be it based on electoralism or otherwise, needs to engage positively with the working class grassroots, and be more than yet another organisation which is by activists, for activists, and confined to the activist ghetto.

Your last sentence seems to sum up why the left is failing so dismally to impact anywhere outside of said ghettos, most WC around here have never even heard of the likes of TUSC etc.

 

[JTG]

Suffolk
Conservative hold
C 39 (-16); Lab 15 (+11); UKIP 9 (+8); LD 7 (-4); Ind 3 (+1); Green 2 (nc)

North Yorkshire
Conservative hold
C 45 (-1); LD 8 (-1); Ind 8 (-6); Lab 7 (+6); Lib 2 (nc); UKIP 2 (+2)

Staffordshire
Conservative hold
C 34 (-16); Lab 24 (+21); Ind 2 (nc); UKIP 2 (-1)

Leicestershire
Conservative hold
C 30 (-3); LD 13 (-1); Lab 10 (+6); UKIP 2 (nc); Ind 0 (-2)

Surrey
Conservative hold
C 58 (+3); LD 9 (-4); RA 9 (-1); UKIP 3 (+2); Lab 1 (NC); Green 1 (+1)

Cambridgeshire
Conservatives lose to no overall control
C 32 (-7); LD 14 (-7); UKIP 12 (+10); Lab 7 (+4); Ind 4 (+1); G 0 (-1)

 

[belboid]

Sounds like Labour might have won control of Nottinghamshire by 1 seat, got info from that forum so wont take it as gospel quite yet.

beeb says its true

 

[belboid]

Suffolk
Staffordshire
Conservative hold
C 34 (-16); Lab 24 (+21); Ind 2 (nc); UKIP 2 (-1)

apparently that was a Labour hopeful, tho its hard to believe they could really have hoped to win it from having only three seats.

 

[Dogsauce]

From twatter:

"Looking at 1st preferences, Peter Davies may well win in #Doncaster. Labour 590 ahead, but 8492 rightwing votes to reallocate. 2702 leftwing"

...may be saved by the fact that there were a lot of right-wing candidates for those votes to spread around, but still, not looking great.

 

[butchersapron]

UKIP getting close to 150

 

[Delroy Booth]

Sounds like Labour might have won control of Nottinghamshire by 1 seat, got info from that forum so wont take it as gospel quite yet.

 

[toggle]

fucking bigoted disablist tory shitwank got re elected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22403852

 

[trashpony]

Fucking hell - 7 out of 8 seats went to UKIP where I live

 

[elbows]

UKIP getting close to 150

Yeah. The BBC table of councillors must have been lagging well behind the 'number of councils declared' earlier otherwise I've got no idea where most of those after 100 came from!

 

[brogdale]

To all those sniffy lefties who say that Surrey's just full of tories...I'd like to introduce Mr Robert Evans, County Councillor for Stanwell and Stanwell Moor.

Surrey's only Lab councillor....

58 Conservative
9 Liberal Democrats
9 Residents’ Association / Independents
3 UKIP
1 Labour
1 Green Party

 

[goldenecitrone]

Fucking hell - 7 out of 8 seats went to UKIP where I live

Somewhere near Dover?

 

[elbows]

2.20pm BST
On the BBC Michael Gove has just hinted that David Cameron will formally withdraw his "fruitcakes, lunatics and closet racists" remark about Ukip when he speaks to the media this afternoon.

LOL

Here it is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22404562

Responding to the success of UKIP, Prime Minister David Cameron said "It's no good insulting a political party that people have chosen to vote for".

In the video he goes on to say that they have to respect people who chose to support UKIP and they will work hard to win them back.

 

[brogdale]

Clegg speaks...

Nick Clegg has now given his response to the local election results.
I have always said it is understandable why it is that people might be attracted to the simple answers that the UK Independence party is offering to deal with this country's complex problems. But I do not think they do have the answers to the dilemmas we face as a country. I believe that the Liberal Democrats do ...
Of course, it is not good to lose half your councillors, as we have done in these elections, but the Liberal Democrats are on a journey. We are on a journey from...

Anyone?

 

[brogdale]

Here it is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22404562



In the video he goes on to say that they have to respect people who chose to support UKIP and they will work hard to win them back.

Rowing back from saying that a quarter of the electorate are racist supporters of clowns.

 

[butchersapron]

Clegg speaks...

Nick Clegg has now given his response to the local election results.
I have always said it is understandable why it is that people might be attracted to the simple answers that the UK Independence party is offering to deal with this country's complex problems. But I do not think they do have the answers to the dilemmas we face as a country. I believe that the Liberal Democrats do ...
Of course, it is not good to lose half your councillors, as we have done in these elections, but the Liberal Democrats are on a journey. We are on a journey from...

Anyone?

He has always said that. Where?

The complex question you're grappling with. You've just got another clear answer. And after eastleig buoyed your hopes so.

 

[elbows]

but the Liberal Democrats are on a journey. We are on a journey from...

Anyone?

The dogs arse to my letterbox.

 

[DotCommunist]

Clegg speaks...

Nick Clegg has now given his response to the local election results.
I have always said it is understandable why it is that people might be attracted to the simple answers that the UK Independence party is offering to deal with this country's complex problems. But I do not think they do have the answers to the dilemmas we face as a country. I believe that the Liberal Democrats do ...
Of course, it is not good to lose half your councillors, as we have done in these elections, but the Liberal Democrats are on a journey. We are on a journey from...

Anyone?

sig, to in

 

[JTG]

Nottinghamshire
Labour gain from Conservatives
Lab 34 (+18); C 21 (-14); LD 8 (-1); Ind 4 (-2); UKIP 0 (-1)

West Sussex
Conservative hold
C 46 (nc); UKIP 10 (+8); LD 8 (-10); Lab 6 (+3); Ind 1 (-1)

Worcestershire
Conservative hold
C 30 (-11); Lab 12 (+8); UKIP 4 (+4); LD 3 (-4); Ind CHC 2 (nc); Green 2 (+1); Ind 2 (+2); Lib 1 (nc); RA 1 (nc)

Kent
Conservative hold
C 45 (-27); UKIP 17 (+16); Lab 13 (+10); LD 7 (nc); RA 1 (nc); Green 1 (+1)

 

[Tom A]

the Liberal Democrats are on a journey.

Don't stop beleveeeeeeeevin'........

 

[DotCommunist]

'and the dogs licked up his blood'

 

[belboid]

Donny round one:

Ros Jones (Labour) 21,996
Peter Davies (Independent) 21,406
David Allen (English Democrats) 4,615
Michael Maye (Independent) 4,557
Martin Drake (Conservative) 2,811
Mary Jackson (Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts) 1,916
John Brown (Liberal Democrats) 1,122
Tony Ward (Indepdendent) 1,110
Dave Owen (National Front) 1,066
Doug Wright (Save Your Services) 786

A good show for TUSC!

From the likely split of the parties' votes for round two, it will take the other two indies votes to split overwhelmingly (4-1ish) in favour of Jones for her to win it.

 

[elbows]

So if I am reading the results properly, in each of the two counties where Labour took control, UKIP lost their previously held seat.

 

[coley]

fucking bigoted disablist tory shitwank got re elected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22403852

Jeez, makes you wonder about some people.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

So if I am reading the results properly, in each of the two counties where Labour took control, UKIP lost their previously held seat.

Yep, incumbency is something of a disadvantage for fruitloops.

 

[trashpony]

Somewhere near Dover?

Yep

So if I am reading the results properly, in each of the two counties where Labour took control, UKIP lost their previously held seat.

Well that's encouraging at any rate

 

[geminisnake]

Clegg speaks...

Nick Clegg has now given his response to the local election results.

Of course, it is not good to lose half your councillors, as we have done in these elections, but the Liberal Democrats are on a journey. We are on a journey from...

Anyone?

From the bottom of the pit to the gates of Hades. The Lib Dems as a party are zombies.

 

[belboid]

From the likely split of the parties' votes for round two, it will take the other two indies votes to split overwhelmingly (4-1ish) in favour of Jones for her to win it.

which they must have done! Ros Jones wins

 

[belboid]

btw, anyone know if Maidmarian stood in Notts? I seem to recall she lost her seat last time round

 

[belboid]

They won't get anything like 100. I know they're riding a wave ATM but they didn't make any (net) gains in either the 2011 or 2012 local elections.

I reckon 20 seats would be a good result. Their share of the vote will be pretty good tho.

144 at the mo ...