The Council became effectively bankrupt had to file for emergency support from government. I assume it’s fairly easy to campaign against the incumbents in that position even if there are underlying reasons for it.
tbf the same thing happened in Northampton- the Tory council racked up £1 billion in debts, social services, schools all plummeted to bottom of league tables, they built themselves an amazing new offices that cost £53million but they had to sell to a dodgy offshore company who they then leased it from....
and they still got voted back in
anyway if anyone knows Bracknell this is bonkers!
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1654491593531879426
Ooh, High Peak (my borough) has gone from NOC to Labour!
Yup, just seen that.
Unfortunately, Disley is a frontier outpost of Cheshire East, and they've not declared yet 🙁
anyway if anyone knows Bracknell this is bonkers!
Will still be "not great news for Labour" on the BBC... "now, back to the Royals..."
The Tories gaining a council will cheer up Rishi Sunak
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65493178.amp
Edit: As well as gaining the unitary authority of Slough obviously.
Bring on Kate and Wills for the win!!
Headlone new yesterday is that they went to the pub, how disinterested our politics are. Sky news AI reporting a predicted hung parliament at the GE. Man o man, how many people are prepared to put up with the activities of this shower of cheating lying stealing shits is unreal.
Erewash is no longer blue!
Headlone new yesterday is that they went to the pub, how disinterested our politics are. Sky news AI reporting a predicted hung parliament at the GE
Harper's Bazar completely randomly 🤣 ran a profile of Rose Hanbury this week, the replies were most amusing
https://twitter.com/DanielleLesli17/status/1653940475114536960?s=19
closing on -1000 currently @ -817
Interesting seeing the NOC ones - even there it's a tale of Tory losses.
Stockport remains NOC but they've lost all their Tories.
The tracker I'm watching currently shows -771 seats with 40 councils still to declare.
More good news. More Tory losses here. Given our useless Tory MP has a majority of 100 votes, that’s him on notice 😃
https://twitter.com/gareth_sj/status/1654510853641719809?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
-850-855 @ bbc
Blimey, the Greens have done well this election, not only are they on course to more than double their total number of councillors but they have just won their first ever majority on a council - Mid Suffolk District Council is now under the majority control of the Green Party.
This will provide a huge boost for them in the longer term.
Gove's council has gone LibDem. Please god, if you do exist give us that pleasure on election night.....
And it's a bad day for UKIP so far, they have lost 22 councillors and have yet to win one single council seat. Reform UK haven't done much better with only 6 council seats so far.
This will provide a huge boost for them in the longer term.
It will. If they make a decent job of running the council it’ll put them in a good place come the GE.
Do you not reckon that UKIP/Reform falling over is because the Tories have moved so far right they’ve eaten their vote, and everyone centre right and leftwards has realised what a shit idea Brexit was?
@theotherjonv I like the Surrey Heath result too. I suspect that every house in there will be carpet-bombed with Focus leaflets for the foreseeable.
Guardian says -713 Tories with 38 councils to declare, I don’t think they’re putting the results up until the full council is out though so it’s probably higher. I’m not sure how this can be spun as anything other than a bad night for them - not -1000 but it’s not going to be far off.
I know the area quite well (my sister lived there before moving to Norwich) it's quite surprising as you'd tag it as "they'd vote for a pig with a blue rosette" kinda place, then again perhaps not it's kind of "arty".
Bury have declared. Labour up, Tories down and Lib Dems out.
Shame the Lib Dems have gone. I was in their only ward up until today and they were very active.
Central Bedfordshire with independents being largest group now.
Been blue since it was formed in 2009
-931 carnage
I can’t work out whether all the Tory MPs presently popping up to say it’s not that bad are just gaslighting us, as usual, or they are genuinely that delusional.
Chris Philp being handed his arse by Emily Thornberry on politics live was particularly amusing
https://twitter.com/johnjcrace/status/1654534563429752833?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
My schadenfreude meter is at 11, roll on the next GE! No local elections for us though. Idle thought, why aren't council elections across the country all held at the same time?
This was written three days ago but is remarkably relevant and insightful imo
Pretty sure funding (and for sure council tax) for local councils are devolved to Welsh/Scottish/NI governments, so that determines when elections are.
Greg Hands
Why is he cutoff mid sentence?
Edit: He wasn't asked a question which was specific to the local elections btw, he was asked "how damaging has this last year been to your party?"
Over 1000 losses so far and counting…
Chris Philp is on channel 4 news. No wonder Liz Truss liked him. He’s as deranged and delusional as she is
Much as I’m enjoying this, I’m feeling a little left out as we didn’t have any elections in Bristol. 😀
How many Tories are there in Bristol?
To be fair, good point/question. It’s not that blue a city, I’m just bemoaning the fact that I didn’t get to visit a polling station. That’s all. 😀
Not sure I’d be too cocky if I were Kier - over half of the Tory losses have gone to LibDem and Greens.
Not many! A fair few in Bristol North West, but they still have a Labour MP at the moment.
In my constituency of Bristol West, the Tories came fourth in 2015, and their vote share has continued to decline since then...
Stockport remains NOC but they’ve lost all their Tories.
Yep, my ward is now wholly LD - and Reddish South is completely Green. Wow.
West Berkshire has gone to Lib Dems from Tory
are they going to double down on their culture wars ? given this result and ONS surveys where there's no mention of woke & boats
When asked about the important issues facing the UK today, the most commonly reported issues continue to be the cost of living (93%), the NHS (87%), the economy (73%), and climate change and the environment (61%)
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are they going to double down on their culture wars ? given this result and ONS surveys where there’s no mention of woke & boats
There'll be a "period of reflection" while they continue to claim they're "listening to the people" and "delivering on their promises".
They'll no doubt be getting the big calls right, making the tough decisions, growing the economy, delivering for the people...
This will be a "sober lesson learned" that they "cannot take things for granted" and it's been some "tough times" but they continue to push ahead on "delivering for Britain".
And then they'll nick some more cash from deprived regions, sell off a bit more of the NHS and do some last minute smash-and-grab on whatever is left before getting their arses handed to them at the GE.
Although at this rate I can see Starmer getting complacent, thinking it's a done deal and letting Diane Abbot loose with more anti-semitic nonsense while continuing to claim he'll make Brexit work and actually stop the boats... and the Tories will squeak in on a knife edge and spend the next 4 years rolling around the House of Commons laughing at him...
I'm back from the count - via the pub - a bit pissed. We won locally - now 2 out of 3 Labour councillors where we'd not won in 25 years before lat year. Our neighbour Ward has 3 out of 3 from a zero base 2 years ago
My Friend won in posh commuter town - first time ever elected Labour.
Greens destroyed Tories in Wetherby - one of the Bluest wards in Leeds.
So many examples across the country
Tories have taken an absolute kicking.
I may have some more beer and a massive celebratory curry
cabinet reshuffle must be on the cards, Boris for home secretary ? 😉
-1044 now, so even by Tory spin standards it's bad. Hurrah. Looks like the infighting so starting as well, the more unstable they are the worse it will be at the GE.
