Local Elections on Thursday 4th May

[User62651]

Wonder where that will leave the Tories with SNP and Labour come Election Day?

Think the pundits will be correct with Cons getting 8 -12 seats, maybe less come GE from tactical voting along the Indy2 lines. Depends how the remaining labour voters go - will they back SNP as more socialist pro EU or will they back Conservatives as more Unionist and pro Brexit? - I think the latter.

If these local elections are a steer for the GE (lets see when all councils have returned) I think the SNP vote is holding but Labour's is sliding further still but just about all Labour voters moving to Cons, not SNP. As long as SNP aren't shedding votes then they should keep most of the seats they won 2 years ago at GE (40+). Looks like all the MP's in Scotland in a months time will be either SNP or Tory with Lib Dems and Labour likely having a big fat 0, maybe 1.

Corbyn's finished it seems (but will he resign?)

 

[Hacker Khan]

These were the results from round my way, kids of backs up the migration of votes from UKIP to the Conservatives.

 

[User62651]

These were the results from round my way, kids of backs up the migration of votes from UKIP to the Conservatives.

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Look like the LibDems have not connected with electorate anywhere then, Farron on shaky ground?

 

[Hacker Khan]

And congratulations Tashy on your 4 seats!

 

[Hacker Khan]

Look like the LibDems have not connected with electorate anywhere then, Farron on shaky ground?

They were never going to do much round my way, never have done and never will. They did not even offer a candidate on my voting paper.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

They were never going to do much round my way, never have done and never will. They did not even offer a candidate on my voting paper.

St Albans result is positive for the LibDems.

 

[Fish]

Great victory for Andy Street, Conservative Mayor elect for the West Midlands.

I didn't get to vote due to very poor marketing and visibility for this election, but thankfully who I would have voted for has won through anyway 👍

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Good to see Andy Burnham win the North-West Mayor with 63% of vote. A good guy who did a solid and determined job on the Hillsborough front.

 

[SocketRocket]

I'm splitting my sides at some of the excuses coming out here for the great downhill slide in support for the Socialists and Wets. People have seen through the Gerrymandering and slimy tactics that have been used since Brexit.

 

[Fish]

So what does it take to get rid of Corbyn, not that I want him to go, he's to politics what Wenger is to Arsenal 😜

But seriously, with such a vote of no confidence losing so many seats and losing more strong hold labour areas, when does it get to the point that he has to realise he's unelectable and what will it take to out him?

But then who would/could step in, and please, I mean really please don't say Abbott 😂

 

[ColchesterFC]

So what does it take to get rid of Corbyn, not that I want him to go, he's to politics what Wenger is to Arsenal 

But seriously, with such a vote of no confidence losing so many seats and losing more strong hold labour areas, when does it get to the point that he has to realise he's unelectable and what will it take to out him?

But then who would/could step in, and please, I mean really please don't say Abbott 

Keir Starmer? David Milliband?

Or maybe a triumphant return for Tony Blair ( <------- JOKE!!!!)

 

[FairwayDodger]

I'm splitting my sides at some of the excuses coming out here for the great downhill slide in support for the Socialists and Wets. People have seen through the Gerrymandering and slimy tactics that have been used since Brexit.

This is a common line you have been trotting out. It seems to me that you don't know what gerrymandering is. Either that or labour have been up to something with electoral boundaries that I haven't heard about?

The conservatives on the other hand.....

 

[User62651]

I'm splitting my sides at some of the excuses coming out here for the great downhill slide in support for the Socialists and Wets. People have seen through the Gerrymandering and slimy tactics that have been used since Brexit.

Based on voting patterns they're prediciting a majority at GE of 48 for Conservatives currently. That's decent but a long way from a landslide so in that regard people have seen through nothing much at all, Tories are picking up UKIP votes given May's hard brexit stance and Corbyn isn't helping Labour, no surprise there. But hey carry on splitting your sides, perhaps your brain has split too?

 

[Tashyboy]

Based on voting patterns they're prediciting a majority at GE of 48 for Conservatives currently. That's decent but a long way from a landslide so in that regard people have seen through nothing much at all, Tories are picking up UKIP votes given May's hard brexit stance and Corbyn isn't helping Labour, no surprise there. But hey carry on splitting your sides, perhaps your brain has split too?

When it comes to predictions, I would not waste my breath looking at them. Recent events with Brexit and the US elections prove that.

 

[Tashyboy]

So what does it take to get rid of Corbyn, not that I want him to go, he's to politics what Wenger is to Arsenal &#63004;

But seriously, with such a vote of no confidence losing so many seats and losing more strong hold labour areas, when does it get to the point that he has to realise he's unelectable and what will it take to out him?

But then who would/could step in, and please, I mean really please don't say Abbott &#62978;

To be honest Fish, I know Corbyn comes across as a pathetic figure/ leader. But I cannot see him going or gone til after he and the Labour Party are humiliated at the next election.
Where does that leave Labour then, Corbyn goes and who comes in. Who are the next tier of Labour politicians. I don't know them now so what will they say or do to gain popularity. The same ( Union ) muppets will still support them with a union agenda. my grief is that people like our local MP Alan Meale has been in his post for
20 years, and done what. Outside of Mansfield no one knows him. He is not a front bencher or is he. You never see him on telly questioning government policies. He is comfortable with his feet under the table, and there are to many others like him. Dead wood.
Whoever the next labour leader is has a massive job on there hands.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

According to BBC Scotland.
The Ruth Davidson party getting 23% of the Scots vote is a triumph whilst the Jeremy Corbyn party's 28% of the English vote is a humiliating defeat.
That cannot be right, Shirley.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Interesting to see that the UKIP councillors who panicked the Tory's into Brexit have all lost their seats.
Anyone any suggestions as to why that has happened

 

[HomerJSimpson]

When it comes to predictions, I would not waste my breath looking at them. Recent events with Brexit and the US elections prove that.

Think they were pretty inaccurate at the last GE werent they?

 

[FairwayDodger]

According to BBC Scotland.
The Ruth Davidson party getting 23% of the Scots vote is a triumph whilst the Jeremy Corbyn party's 28% of the English vote is a humiliating defeat.
That cannot be right, Shirley.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

Hmm I'd say that's correct. It's all relative to where they were before.

 

[Hobbit]

According to BBC Scotland.
The Ruth Davidson party getting 23% of the Scots vote is a triumph whilst the Jeremy Corbyn party's 28% of the English vote is a humiliating defeat.
That cannot be right, Shirley.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

I guess it depends on how you spin it. Tories gain 160 seats. SNP lose control of the only 2 councils in which they had overall control. Either sentence doesn't portray the full story but implies something in a particular way as to suggest something else.