Local Elections May 5th 2022

[spitfire]

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

Ah bollox.

 

[weepiper]

Tories lose 62 councillors across Scotland. In Edinburgh their vote has collapsed in a very pleasing manner, taking them from 18 down to 9 councillors, which takes them from being the second biggest party on the council to the fifth. Love to see it

 

[cupid_stunt]

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.

The BBC site is now putting them as down -436, with 12 councils still to declare.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ah bollox.

Jesus is he still going? There's enough shit on him to fertilise half of Lincolnshire.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Jesus is he still going? There's enough shit on him to fertilise half of Lincolnshire.

I've read more articles about him in Private Eye over the years than I have about Boris Johnson

 

[lazythursday]

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.

My mum lives in Nuneaton and my father was a long standing councillor back in the day so I've picked up a bit of that background. And the endless poorly planned sprawl of Nuneaton with no decent infrastructure or transport is grotesque so can see why greens have done well in some places. Here the geography forces development to happen in relatively small parts of the area and just like Nuneaton it's house building targets first, worry about the consequences later, and people do seem to be waking up to the fact the local plan is incredibly flawed and breaches all the council's net zero targets. But it still feels shocking to watch Tory seats go green, rather than, say, lib dem.

 

[bluescreen]

Jesus is he still going? There's enough shit on him to fertilise half of Lincolnshire.

Why is he so popular? What do people who vote for him get out of it? Are they just annoyed about not being able to drive everywhere?

 

[toblerone3]

Lutfur Rahmen has won Tower Hamlets Mayor FFS.

 

[hash tag]

All 14 Worthing results are now in, from nowhere just over 5 years ago, and for the first time ever, Labour well and truly takes control, with almost twice the number of seats that the Tories have.

New make-up of the council -
Lab 23
Con - 12
LD - 1
IND - 1

The Tories fell into a (pot) hole

 

[spitfire]

Why is he so popular? What do people who vote for him get out of it? Are they just annoyed about not being able to drive everywhere?

I think that's the crux of it, also a large part is Lab are seen as the party of the gentrifiers so the Bangla community came out en masse and made their votes felt. There were plenty of his guys out yesterday.

That's democracy folks...

 

[hash tag]

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.

Keep him, for now. If anyone is going to cost the Tories the next election it would be johnson

 

[Plumdaff]

Why is he so popular? What do people who vote for him get out of it? Are they just annoyed about not being able to drive everywhere?

What % of households in the Borough own a car? Must be super low. There must be something else going on?

 

[cupid_stunt]

The Tories fell into a (pot) hole

Liked for being funny, but the potholes have nowt to do with Worthing borough council, they are down to West Sussex county council.

 

[spitfire]

Stuff like Lab councillors voting for the Brick Lane development went down like a shit sandwich with many people but especially the people in Banglatown. The councillors couldn't legally vote against it as there wasn't a valid planning objection in, as we all know, "I don't like it." doesn't cut the mustard, needs to be an actual upholdable reason.

There's quite a strong car culture amongst the Bangladeshis round here, especially the younger men, most of the guys I saw canvassing were younger, 25 - 35 so I deduce from this that the campaign may have had quite a bit of support from that age group..

I fear Aspire may see off some Lab councillors as well if this has set the stage.

eta: I am against the development in Brick Lane to be clear. It's shit.

 

[PursuedByBears]

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.

Keep him, for now. If anyone is going to cost the Tories the next election it would be johnson

Exactly. I want him to cling on in a messy and undignified fashion for as long as possible to inflict maximum damage to the Tories.

 

[weepiper]

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.View attachment 321473

The SNP appear pretty chuffed with their results, which tbh are not to be sneezed at especially in the context of having been the party in power nationally for years.

 

[Leighsw2]

Ah bollox.



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You can complain about this all you like, but it's a powerful indictment of the absolutely deplorable state of the Labour Party in Tower Hamlets.

 

[Plumdaff]

Tories having a shocker in Wales, lost Monmouthshire and Labour have highest number of councillors there for the first time since the mid 90s.

Labour have won Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend. Plaid have won Ynys Môn.

Cardiff remains Labour. Tories losing seats in the North of the city. Some of the seats where Plaid / Green may have challenged still to declare.

Eta. Plaid have now also gained Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. Decent night for them, although they are their heartlands. Winning seats in Wrexham arguably a bigger achievement.

 

[bluescreen]

What % of households in the Borough own a car? Must be super low. There must be something else going on?

Admittedly my question was a bit tongue in cheek. I live far from there so only hear rumours of things that would be illegal if they were true, so it obviously can't be that. The man must have some amazing charisma.

 

[spitfire]

You can complain about this all you like, but it's a powerful indictment of the absolutely deplorable state of the Labour Party in Tower Hamlets.

Thanks, I will do some moaning now I have your permission.

But yeah I guess so, my local councillor has been really good so I'd like him to stay but I reckon he's a goner. (Am not a LP member by the way, did vote for them yesterday though).

 

[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

Now -
England -328 (5 councils still to declare)
Wales -67 (4 councils still to declare)
Scotland -62 (all declared)
TOTAL -457

Pundits were saying anything north of -400 would be considered a disaster by Tory MPs.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I think Exeter will stay Labour controlled and so will my bit of town. Think the Greens might start to build on their vote and make inroads.

And that's what happened.

I win at predictions.

 

[steeplejack]

Eta. Plaid have now also gained Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. Decent night for them, although they are their heartlands. Winning seats in Wrexham arguably a bigger achievement.

Yep PC winning seats in Wrecsam a much bigger deal.

 

[Gerry1time]

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

Nothing ever gets done in Bristol anyway. It’s famously the city where good ideas go to die. That’s regardless of whether they’re ideas being helped to fail by the council, the voluntary sector or the private sector. In my experience anyway.

 

[weepiper]

Teehee

 

[weepiper]

Meanwhile in NI. This seems pretty big

 

[scifisam]

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the TH election wasn't fairly won. Lots of Aspire supporters blocking the entrance to my polling station, totally illegal - cop on duty didn't give a shit.

My postal vote went missing. My upstairs neighbour shares a hallway with me and could easily have stolen it; he's a Rahman activist and is himself a fraudster, so I'm really not being paranoid. And I went to the polling station anyway to take my daughter there, and ask if there was any way I could still vote. They checked J's name off a list in front of me, where I could see my name in red for a postal vote with my address... and four postal votes registered to my upstairs neighbour. It's a one bedroom flat and they have two little kids; there are definitely not four adults living there. Fraudy fraud fraud fraud.

Talk about Labour doing well or badly with locals isn't really all the relevant when they're up against a fraudster who uses intimidation tactics.

FWIW lots of local Bangladeshis do NOT like Rahman - my GF is one and she's not that unusual.

 

[Ranbay]

Now -
England -328 (5 councils still to declare)
Wales -67 (4 councils still to declare)
Scotland -62 (all declared)
TOTAL -457

Pundits were saying anything north of -400 would be considered a disaster by Tory MPs.

Watch the knives come out now

 

[spitfire]

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the TH election wasn't fairly won. Lots of Aspire supporters blocking the entrance to my polling station, totally illegal - cop on duty didn't give a shit.

My postal vote went missing. My upstairs neighbour shares a hallway to me and could easily have stolen it; he's a Rahman activist and is himself a fraudster, so I'm really not being paranoid. And I went to the polling station anyway to take my daughter there, and ask if there was any way I could still vote. They checked J's name off a list in front of me, where I could see my name in red for a postal vote with my address... and four postal votes registered to my upstairs neighbour. It's a one bedroom flat and they have two little kids; there are definitely not four adults living there. Fraudy fraud fraud fraud.

Talk about Labour doing well or badly with locals isn't really all the relevant when they're up against a fraudster who uses intimidation tactics.

FWIW lots of local Bangladeshis do NOT like Rahman - my GF is one and she's not that unusual.

Interesting.

There was a couple just ahead of me where the man tried to accompany his wife into the booth. He was stopped by one of the staff who explained that she could explain what to do for her (or something like that, I wasn’t paying too much attention.). I thought nothing of it at the time.

 

[pbsmooth]

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the TH election wasn't fairly won. Lots of Aspire supporters blocking the entrance to my polling station, totally illegal - cop on duty didn't give a shit.

My postal vote went missing. My upstairs neighbour shares a hallway to me and could easily have stolen it; he's a Rahman activist and is himself a fraudster, so I'm really not being paranoid. And I went to the polling station anyway to take my daughter there, and ask if there was any way I could still vote. They checked J's name off a list in front of me, where I could see my name in red for a postal vote with my address... and four postal votes registered to my upstairs neighbour. It's a one bedroom flat and they have two little kids; there are definitely not four adults living there. Fraudy fraud fraud fraud.

Talk about Labour doing well or badly with locals isn't really all the relevant when they're up against a fraudster who uses intimidation tactics.

FWIW lots of local Bangladeshis do NOT like Rahman - my GF is one and she's not that unusual.

It would be more of a surprise if it had been fairly won.