Local Elections 2018

[Pickman's model]

Do not forget, I know people with unfed Rottweilers, who know where you live...

Not if the dogs are unfed much longer

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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I'l update my spreadsheet later to see if there is a shift in the vote in Manchester.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Not if the dogs are unfed much longer

They get thrown the odd VAT defaulter, just to keep them ticking along.

 

[planetgeli]

Oh. Jeremy Corbyn.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I thought Pickman's was saying that he had been elected mayor.

If true, god save us all.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Oh. Jeremy Corbyn.

Said the 'Eye'.

 

[Badgers]

I don't go on Facebook but the outgoing Tory just posted up a massive rant about labour dirty tricks and lies

Most people responded saying 'why did you not bother campaigning' and stating 'austerity' as the reason they could no longer vote Tory

Will miss the modern face of British voters:

 

[billbond]

Oh. Jeremy Corbyn.

oh dear indeed
Nice ageism Badgers
Very quite on here today

 

[billbond]

Overall, a resounding win for the Conservatives. Lost a few Councillors and one council, when they should have been annihilated.

That's the problem with the Urban bubble, it's view of how things are are guided by prejudice and hope, rather than fact.

It would seem the real world doesn't want change, which is quite astonishing really. This is the most inept government I've seen since Wilson.

Cheer up
Greens done well
In Brighton today it was buzzing as well as hot

 

[tim]

The Liberals seem to have taken Kingston as well as Richmond, which means that they've got their three borough Southwest London block back.

Are there any results from Tower Hamlets yet? I couldn't see anything onothe other BBC, council not Mayor, that is.

 

[Lurdan]

Are there any results from Tower Hamlets yet?

One ward still to declare - the one I live in. I heard earlier in the evening that there was a dispute over the total votes cast. Am I right in understanding it's the last ward to declare nationally ? ROFL.

Labour have had a very good election. Lost none and gained everything the other parties have lost. The only PATH councillor to keep her seat so far is Rabina Khan (but three seats last held by PATH are still to declare). PATH had 7 councillors at the time of the election. None of the Aspire candidates have kept theirs. They had 10 Councillors at the time of the election. Conservatives have lost three councillors. They had five before. The solitary Lib Dem (elected on the Labour ticket in 2014 but defected) didn't restand and the Lib Dems haven't held on to the seat. A solitary Independent didn't restand and Labour have taken the seat.

Labour have by my reckoning 39 councillors as I write this, up from 22. Plus 2 Tories, 1 PATH. 3 still to declare.

ETA: and shortly after 2am the declaration that Labour have taken all three seats in Whitechapel ward.

So Labour 42 Tory 2 PATH 1

 

[redsquirrel]

BBC estimating turnout as 36% - same as 2014.

The BBC estimate, based on 800 key wards, puts turnout at 36%, the same as in these wards four years ago.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Bloody close call in Crawley:

In Crawley, a matter of just 13 votes protected the Labour administration from falling to the Conservatives

In Crawley 12 seats were in play - one third of the council’s total.

Labour, with 19 seats in total, was defending a narrow majority of just two seats and came close to losing them.

The Conservatives had to hold the four seats they were defending and pick up two gains.

The Ifield and Southgate wards were their top targets, and they lost both by a whisker - Labour held Southgate by 14 votes and Ifield by nine.

If more than half of those voters had switched to the Conservatives - a total of just 13 electors - the seats would have changed hands and so would the council.

Just 13 votes mean Labour keep power

 

[Slo-mo]

One ward still to declare - the one I live in. I heard earlier in the evening that there was a dispute over the total votes cast. Am I right in understanding it's the last ward to declare nationally ? ROFL.

Labour have had a very good election. Lost none and gained everything the other parties have lost. The only PATH councillor to keep her seat so far is Rabina Khan (but three seats last held by PATH are still to declare). PATH had 7 councillors at the time of the election. None of the Aspire candidates have kept theirs. They had 10 Councillors at the time of the election. Conservatives have lost three councillors. They had five before. The solitary Lib Dem (elected on the Labour ticket in 2014 but defected) didn't restand and the Lib Dems haven't held on to the seat. A solitary Independent didn't restand and Labour have taken the seat.

Labour have by my reckoning 39 councillors as I write this, up from 22. Plus 2 Tories, 1 PATH. 3 still to declare.

ETA: and shortly after 2am the declaration that Labour have taken all three seats in Whitechapel ward.

So Labour 42 Tory 2 PATH 1

Are PATH connected with the long defunct RESPECT in any way?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Remarkable in Worthing, Labour had no seats for 40 years, now they have 5.

Labour gained four councillors at this year’s local elections to become the Conservatives’ main opposition on Worthing Borough Council.

Just months after winning their first seat [due to a by-election] in the town for more than 40 years, Labour increased their number of seats to five, ahead of the Liberal Democrats’ two.

LOCAL ELECTION: Labour make gains to narrow Conservative majority

 

[toblerone3]

Tower Hamlets not expected til 8. An interesting Labour vs independent battle in prospect there. Otherwise that's pretty much yer lot folks....

I assume you meant 8pm yesterday evening. Still not declared officially and its nearly 9am on Saturday although Aaron Bastani said at midnight that Labour has won it from NOC. What is happening at the count?

 

[Slo-mo]

It's up on the BBC website. Labour take most seats, just two Tories and one PATH.....

 

[ska invita]

Someone on Facebook claims this is the best local election result for Labour since 1971...I presume there's a stat to back that up?

 

[Badgers]

Nice ageism Badgers

Where did I mention anyone's age?

 

[Slo-mo]

Someone on Facebook claims this is the best local election result for Labour since 1971...I presume there's a stat to back that up?

If there is I'd love to see it. On his show last night, George Galloway claimed these results proved Corbyn was on the brink of a landslide. How the fuck he works that out I don't know.

 

[Badgers]

Someone on Facebook claims this is the best local election result for Labour since 1971...I presume there's a stat to back that up?

Only in London

 

[Slo-mo]

Only in London

That's possibly more tenable although it hasn't translated into gaining any actual councils unless you count gaining Tower Hamlets from NOC.

 

[High Voltage]

Well me and Mrs Voltz voted on Thursday I know we did but I'm fucked if I can find any results or even acknowledgement that there was an election of any kind on the day in question in Shepton Mallet

 

[Slo-mo]

Well me and Mrs Voltz voted on Thursday I know we did but I'm fucked if I can find any results or even acknowledgement that there was an election of any kind on the day in question in Shepton Mallet

Do you know what sort of election it was? Town council, district or county? And was it a by election maybe?

Actually there are a pair of results on the town council homepage for a start.

Home - Shepton Mallet Town Council

 

[bemused]

Someone on Facebook claims this is the best local election result for Labour since 1971...I presume there's a stat to back that up?

I don't know, but the predicted spanking of the tory party didn't happen. The only lot who can claim some sort of success are the libdems ..... depressingly

 

[redsquirrel]

Who was predicting a "spanking" for the tories?

 

[Slo-mo]

Who was predicting a "spanking" for the tories?

Owen Jones for a start. He was massively hyping Labour prospects in Wandsworth and Westminster.

 

[redsquirrel]

Owen Jones for a start. He was massively hyping Labour prospects in Wandsworth and Westminster.

Where? This is predicting a spanking is it?

Yes, polls suggest Labour is on course to win the best results of any party in the capital for more than 40 years. But George Osborne’s London Evening Standard and No 10’s spin doctors have hyped up the prospect of Conservative Armageddon – hoping to frighten Tory voters to polling stations, suppress the Labour vote through complacency, and make any Labour gains seem insufficient. Unless the party’s grassroots turn out to vote, historic prizes will remain out of reach.

Outside London, only a third of some councils’ seats are up for grabs, making Portsmouth impossible to win, and Trafford, in Manchester – last held by Labour 15 years ago – extremely challenging.

 

[Slo-mo]

Where? This is predicting a spanking is it?

Fair dos. I don't read the Guardian and probably should. I can assure you his facebook feed was very much a different story "come and make history in Westminster" , "join me to unseat the Tory council in Kensington" etc

Obviously trying to rally support, but also that sort of thing obviously raises expectations.

 

[redsquirrel]

So not predicting a "spanking" at all then.