The Labour Party

blueinsa said:
That’s the worry and the turnout of just over 32% is desperately low.

What’s wrong with people that they simply can’t be arsed to vote anymore?
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For me there's no point voting in council elections.

The central government are strangling councils funding, so no matter who is in it will look shite.

A very broad view.... but personal opinion
 
BayernMan said:
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Yay.

Another failed MP/Careerist parachuted in from London to an area she knows fuck all about.

Made a couple of "Vox Pops" with hand picked party members as her campaign.

I hate to say it but it was only Bradley and an independent who wanted to abolish the role that actually looked serious about doing the role in the debates.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
The independents will make it worse though. They may well have good intentions, but they don’t know how the world works.

There seems to be an issue surrounding shops and pubs shitting and being turned into HMOs. No council will stop that as they will get council tax from each bed sit, instead of having vacant, crumbling buildings.

It’s not ideal, but with the high street dying and hostelries going the same way, those buildings are better used than left empty.
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Unless they class them as mosques! No council tax then, apparently there’s a lot in Oldham
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
The independents will make it worse though. They may well have good intentions, but they don’t know how the world works.

There seems to be an issue surrounding shops and pubs shitting and being turned into HMOs. No council will stop that as they will get council tax from each bed sit, instead of having vacant, crumbling buildings.

It’s not ideal, but with the high street dying and hostelries going the same way, those buildings are better used than left empty.
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pubs what?
 

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Khan was 1/100 to be mayor yesterday and Hall 40/1.

Currently Khan is 1/4 and Hall 5/2.

Must be getting close. Some polling had him 25% clear
 
metalblue said:
You still have to pay people to run the “companies” even if in full public ownership. It then becomes a question of do you want to attract the type of people you want to attract to run them.
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People interested in providing an efficient public service?
 
Nethermoor said:
For me there's no point voting in council elections.

The central government are strangling councils funding, so no matter who is in it will look shite.

A very broad view.... but personal opinion
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So you wouldn't even vote for the party that's being strangled in preference to the party that's done the strangling... Good grief.
 
Postman Pep said:
Difficult to extrapolate from today's results but those poll leads are built on sand.
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They aren’t. The polls haven’t budged in over a year. The by-election in Blackpool was Starmer’s fifth 20% plus swing victory. It’s heading in one direction and today was just further confirmation.
 
BobKowalski said:
People are really running with that nonsense? Someone at Sky was hitting the stupid pills.
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BobKowalski said:
They aren’t. The polls haven’t budged in over a year. The by-election in Blackpool was Starmer’s fifth 20% plus swing victory. It’s heading in one direction and today was just further confirmation.
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Libdem Bob with his finger on the pulse .... when has he ever been wrong ;-)
 
Postman Pep said:
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Libdem Bob with his finger on the pulse .... when has he ever been wrong ;-)
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Pretty much never. Brexit will be a shit show. Check. Johnson is an incompetent clown who will get rinsed by the EU. Check. Truss? You’re having a laugh! Turns out we did. Sunak - I briefly thought he might steady the ship, he sank it instead. 5 out of 10 on that one. Bad Bob.
 
BobKowalski said:
They aren’t. The polls haven’t budged in over a year. The by-election in Blackpool was Starmer’s fifth 20% plus swing victory. It’s heading in one direction and today was just further confirmation.
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.... that the Tories are fucked. The question is who picks up the pieces ..
BobKowalski said:
Pretty much never. Brexit will be a shit show. Check. Johnson is an incompetent clown who will get rinsed by the EU. Check. Truss? You’re having a laugh! Turns out we did. Sunak - I briefly thought he might steady the ship, he sank it instead. 5 out of 10 on that one. Bad Bob.
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Bob is not bad .... just struggles to see the wood for the trees /-)
 
Postman Pep said:
.... that the Tories are fucked. The question is who picks up the pieces ..

Bob is not bad .... just struggles to see the wood for the trees /-)
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Funnily enough, I would say that is more true of you than me. I say that as I think you are more of an idealist and less willing to compromise your ideals than I am.

Which, I guess, doesn’t necessarily reflect well on me, but que sera and all that.

Although, some on here think I’m some hemp wearing hippie with wacky notions, so, who the fuck knows :)
 
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