Great Post.I've not heard anybody on Sky or BBC mention it (to be expected)... but this is a local election where people are generally concerned with local issues and so are more comfortable voting for the smaller parties, mainly Lib Dem and Greens. Around me the Greens are getting vote shares in some wards of 30%+ in deep Tory country and despite that the Labour voteshare is still holding up. I voted Green, but I'm not going to be voting for them at the General.
If I were the Tories, I wouldn't be looking at Labour's vote share. I would be looking nervously at the left wing parties accruing a collective vote share of nearly 65%+. Because those are much more likely to stack on Labour at a general election. If they do then they are beyond fucked. Even if the vote share stayed as it is in these results, they'd still be fucked. But we know they won't, which tells me they are probably mega fucked if this result is replicated next year.
But of course the Tories expected to be total fucking shit and lose thousands of seats so I guess that makes it okay then? That seems to be the party line.
We'll see but I'd be surprised. Tories tend to outperform the polls at a GE.With more results coming in SKY polling expert now saying Labour heading for clear majority territory for next GE .
Hasn’t Liverpool always voted in the Liberals ? but something to do with council corruption going way back it’s a strange one I think probably will vote Independent at the next election but Manchester was always Labour.The leader of the Labour group in Liverpool was expelled by Starmer
He stood as an independent and got 77% of the vote.
Isn’t that just code for saying that between now and their inevitable defeat in the next General Election that they won’t be doing anything more that sees them out of office for more than two terms. One would almost be a victory.Liam Fox on BBC "We just need to keep doing what we're doing."
Talk about a lack of ability to see the writing on the wall. Their hubris will be their end in this country for decades.
I vote LibDem in local council elections because they are the only councillors who respond to any problems you have. When the gypsies moved on to our village green I emailed the 2 conservative councillors as I had already taken up previous issues with the solitary LibDem councillor and felt I should give him a rest.I generally vote LibDem anyway (though have voted Tory or Labour on occasion), so I'd vote LibDem. I prefer voting for the party that best represents your views, rather than voting for a party because it is the lesser of two evils.
Totally bizarrewhat the hell happened in Slough to piss everyone off? huge swing to the Tories, for some reason.