Local Elections May 5th 2022

[Leighsw2]

it's the airing of the dirty laundry I don't like. can this not be said 'internally'? would prefer a unified front.

Was that your view between 2015 and 2020?

 

[cupid_stunt]

According to the BBC site, the Tories are getting close to that -400 seats that could trigger them to go into meltdown over Johnson's leadership.

England -277
Scotland -52
Wales -22
TOTAL -351

 

[souljacker]

Not any more. Boundary changes seem to have shifted it to straddle the river from what I can make out.

Yeah, Thames now has a quite big chunk of town (presumably lots of people in all the new town flats) as well as bits of newtown up to where the college is. So lots of working class people but also lots of rich commuters in posh apartments.

 

[cupid_stunt]

LDs taken control of the new Somerset Council (unitary authority taking over from the county & district councils next year).

Final results now in, Tory MPs in Somerset should be very concerned, not only did the LDs take Somerset Council, but look at by how much!

LDs - 61
CON - 36
GRN - 5
LAB - 5
IND - 3

 

[Benjamin F]

Enjoying BBC Radio 5Lie, underpaying Conservative losses. Up until a few minutes ago Tory losses were a cording to them around 200, whilst nationally they were flicking up to 350 (around 1 in every 4 of Tory councillors who were standing lost their seat). That's a lot of Tory tears.

 

[steeplejack]

What should be clear to everyone now is how much the BBC have become the broadcasting arm of the Tory party. They're independent in the same way Gibraltar is indepndent. Ian Blackford berated and shouted out on TV for "losses for the SNP" when a handful of council results were in. The SNP haven't had a stellar performance, but small gains (+21 I think) and won the national election resoundingly. That interview suggested they'd cratered.

Meanwhile, here's the BBC's front page. This is of course absolutely normal and represents a rigorous and impartial public broadcaster in a democracy that functions in the rudest of health.

 

[strung out]

Inevitable. Utterly inevitable. Before the first referendum in 2012, I went to a talk by an academic on the subject. He said what normally happens when there's a yes vote is that an independent gets in for a short time, then the traditional governing party (Labour in Bristol) get back in and run the city with more power and less scrutiny, then people dislike the system and change back to how things were before.

The whole venture only happened because of a low general turnout and high levels of support in the triangle between Gloucester Road and Whiteladies Road. It was essentially a middle class coup rather than a thing of the whole city, and it's no surprise it's failed.

A great victory for the Tories and the fucking Lib Dems.

Looking forward to another 10 years of fuck all getting done in Bristol now

 

[brogdale]

Having grown up in Limpsfield, and gone to school in Oxted, it seems very weird seeing the Tories in third place, but of course it's only because of OLRG, who are probably mostly Tories anyway.

Starmerville-Donkeytown, eh?

 

[lazythursday]

One genuine shock result in my area (Calderdale) where the Greens got their first councillor, in a safe Tory ward, overturning a previous 1000+ Tory majority. It's not an area I know well, but suspect it's due to the badly thought through local housing plan.

 

[brogdale]

Liking this.

 

[brogdale]

some of these LP -> Green swings are pretty wild...

 

[Wilf]

So, this is getting close to venal tory mps dusting off their letters to the 1922? Not sure we are quite there yet. Maybe the Met will announce the latest round of party fines now the elections done.

 

[pbsmooth]

Was that your view between 2015 and 2020?

it's been my view forever

 

[cupid_stunt]

So, this is getting close to venal tory mps dusting off their letters to the 1922? Not sure we are quite there yet. Maybe the Met will announce the latest round of party fines now the elections done.

Well they are now down by -374 seats, with 34 councils still to declare.

 

[elbows]

One genuine shock result in my area (Calderdale) where the Greens got their first councillor, in a safe Tory ward, overturning a previous 1000+ Tory majority. It's not an area I know well, but suspect it's due to the badly thought through local housing plan.

Thats certainly been the Green story here in Nuneaton for many years now. New housing estates on former fields and farmland in a couple of traditionally tory areas, causing a swing to the Greens that was enough to get the Green candidate over the line in one of these areas, but not the other one. That candidate has held his seat since then, and it helps that he is visible, campaigns, questions things properly in council meetings and fulfils a gadfly type role reasonably well. Didnt manage to prevent any of the housing plans going ahead, but must have managed to maintain appeal in other respects. Over time this has led to far more Green candidates standing round here. They've still not managed to win in the other areas, but their number of votes seems to creep upwards. Yesterday they managed to gain another councillor, but in the very same area as the one I already mentioned was elected years ago. An area where the house building at quite some scale is still ongoing.

 

[andysays]

editor will give him the Great Reset

I predicted this on Wednesday morning

I think that if you carry on posting nonsense like this, you're going to get a "Great Reset" of your own...

And lo, it came to pass...

 

[Leighsw2]

Any ideas about what's going on in Harrow which Labour appear to have lost to the Tories (new council - 31 C, 24 Lab, 10 Lab losses)? This bucks the trend elsewhere in London.

 

[brogdale]

Any ideas about what's going on in Harrow which Labour appear to have lost to the Tories (new council - 31 C, 24 Lab, 10 Lab losses)? This bucks the trend elsewhere in London.

Load of massive cunts live there?

 

[MickiQ]

This is the sort of thing I really wanted to see:

Local elections 2022: Tories lose hundreds of seats to Labour and Lib Dems – as it happened

PM insists ‘mixed’ results also included some ‘remarkable gains’ for Conservatives; Labour, Lib Dems and Greens celebrate key wins

www.theguardian.com

A few outlets parping on about projections of Tory MPs losing their seats. That's what they need to hear in order to ditch Boris.

Fucker would lock himself inside No 10 and refuse to leave.
The trouble is in order to get back those votes the only thing the Tories really need to do is dump Mr Burning Pants and choose a new leader.

 

[platinumsage]

Any ideas about what's going on in Harrow which Labour appear to have lost to the Tories (new council - 31 C, 24 Lab, 10 Lab losses)? This bucks the trend elsewhere in London.

Pavementgate I think

 

[Sue]

LibDems hold all 3 in Tilehurst. Weird fuckers

My colleague lives in Tilehurst...

 

[maomao]

Load of massive cunts live there?

This IME.

 

[spitfire]

Oh dear. Looks like Rahman might get in. First pledge is to reverse liveable streets.

 

[Sue]

So, this is getting close to venal tory mps dusting off their letters to the 1922? Not sure we are quite there yet. Maybe the Met will announce the latest round of party fines now the elections done.

Hope so. Got my at the ready.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Alba party fielded 111 candidates.

Number elected: 0

 

[cupid_stunt]

Bridgend -

Lab 27 (+10)
PC 2 (-2)
Con 1 (-12)
LD 2 0 (-2)
Others 21 (+6)

That's another Tory MP in trouble!

 

[brogdale]

Pre-coffee take...looks like Brexit still living in the minds of many when they enter the voting booth, whatever the electoral context.

Well, according to this instant Sky analysis...yes and no!

 

[brogdale]

Encouraging news from Wales:

 

[steeplejack]

If the Johnsonian councillor deficit nears 400 after all results are in the 1922 committee may well call for that tank regiment to turf him out of no. 10.

Still feel that the best result is for him to somehow limp onto the next election and take the entire Tory party down with him. Followed by an extended process of de-Toryfication and long jail terms for some of these people.

I know, I know, don't @me.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Overall majority in the new unitary authority (formerly three districts) and not a single fucking one of them elected in my district! Told yers, they're gonna build Farron a fucking pyramid up here.