Local Elections 2023

[bluethrunthru]

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-04/widespread-reports-of-people-without-id-being-denied-vote

 

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Gullis - wakes up this morning with no Tory councillors in his constituency - you can see he trots out his usual schtick here but doesn't really believe it himself and he knows nobody would want him teaching their kids in future - maybe a future as a drag act beckons?

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Gullis - wakes up this morning with no Tory councillors in his constituency - you can see he trots out his usual schtick here but doesn't really believe it himself and he knows nobody would want him teaching their kids in future - maybe a future as a drag act beckons?

A man who is a complete stranger to reality.

 

[bluethrunthru]

A man who is a complete stranger to reality.

he is shell shocked - as I have said previously with an 80 seat maj at the last GE he thought he was on the gravy train for many years to come now facing the reality of being a one term wonder and staring into the abyss wondering what next

 

[kaz7]

‘No point voting , it’s a Tory stranglehold ‘

‘Not voting - they’re all the same’

No wonder the Tories have been in power for 13 years with many still having this attitude

Another indirect dig, i know my area better than you , it is not like living in a city , it is a geriatric tory area and the tories cant be shifted , i vote in general elections but it is always a useless vote

 

[Gabriel]

From 1945. Stop the boats in Stoke-on-Trent. Plus ça change,…

 

[Vic]

An intriguing one. Since its creation, that seat has remained firmly Conservative with Rees-Mogg its MP, and only in one of the four elections (2010) would the combined votes of Labour and the Liberal Democrats have sufficed to win the seat. They would have fallen way short both in 2015 and in 2017, and in 2019 it would have been nip and tuck even with the Greens and Independent votes. Indeed, there wasn’t that much between the two main defeated candidates in 2019 (Labour 13,631 and the Liberal Democrats 12,422) with Labour down 10.5% on 2017 and the Liberal Democrats up 13.8% on their 2017 showing, so one could argue the case for either party standing aside and giving the other a clear run. It’s that division and uncertainty, however, that could yet see Rees-Mogg returned even if his 28,360 support collapses.

2019 was Corbyn and Brexit, explains LibDem showing but usually Labour has been second.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Fed up already of listening to the news interviewing Tory people churning out the same old I’ve heard a million times before.
”stoping the boats” may not be the most important thing on people’s minds when casting there vote.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Are Wes Streeting and Paul Scully a couple?

They were on together with Tory K, then Sky and Radio 4.

As an aside it's fascinating how different media is interpreting the results. Five Live calling Lib Dems the "second party" for example.

 

[kaz7]

Fed up already of listening to the news interviewing Tory people churning out the same old I’ve heard a million times before.
”stoping the boats” may not be the most important thing on people’s minds

I think the public dont care about stopping the boats , bar the racists that braverman dog whistles to, getting to see a dr and paying bills is more important to most people