so, instead of a rejection of right wing policies for left wing ones – its actually an embracement of ‘even more right wing’ policies.
Not in our city it’s not.
-UKIP did unexpectedly poorly. -no more than a couple of hundred votes in each ward locally iirc. (I believe they now have a fantastic six whole council wards in the entire country though).
-Anger amongst locals about outgoing Conservative council’s cuts to social care and education, closure of one of the oldest municipal airports uin the UK and a rather unproductive sell-off of what was one of the last corporation-owned bus companies. ALso the small matter of them losing £13 million to high-interest Icelandic banks. (the risk is with the depositors, right Zulu? 😉 ) This is made all the more entertaining by the outgoing Conservative council leader and a local Conservative MP (and party whip) slinging mud at George and Dave 😆 .
-Successful (won back 5 wards and control of city council) Labour campaign based on provision of local services esp for elderly/vulnerable, and attempt to reverse or change the financial circumstances of a huge waste incinerator which will burn other LA’s waste at zero profit to the city coucil: all profit goes to the huge private enterprise bankrolling it.
A pretty old-skool leftist result for us locally really. Suprising given the very poor turnout, usually the stay-at-homes round here vote labour when they can be bothered, and clearly many didn’t bother.