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Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:46 pm
by Watchman
Labour have just taken Swindon
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:53 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
You beat me to it!
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:54 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
This is an incredibly affluent area (not the town so much as the countryside).
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:01 pm
by Youngian
Can’t see a major bun fight breaking out as Johnson has no wind in his sails. Tories are bonkers so what do I know? Bring it on.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:04 pm
by Andy McDandy
The town itself has always been an LD stronghold, but the surroundings are blue through and through. Crikey.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:05 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
This is good, but I seem to be in the only place in the country where non-Tory pincers keep falling over each other...
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:18 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Yeah, Ben because it's not like Lib Dems and Greens do much better in local elections than general elections or anything, is it?
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:25 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Greens gain our ward, massive swing!
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:30 pm
by Arrowhead
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 2:18 pm
Yeah, Ben because it's not like Lib Dems and Greens do much better in local elections than general elections or anything, is it?
Plus of course London and Wales (i.e. two of the strongest Labour areas) aren't even voting today.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:35 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
In fairness, he may be referring to projected national vote share, but I don't know.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:36 pm
by Andy McDandy
Fuck, Wokingham's gone to NOC. That's Redwood territory. Incredibly affluent.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:42 pm
by Oboogie
Arrowhead wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 2:30 pm
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 2:18 pm
Yeah, Ben because it's not like Lib Dems and Greens do much better in local elections than general elections or anything, is it?
Plus of course London and Wales (i.e. two of the strongest Labour areas) aren't even voting today.
Nor Scotland, Birmingham and Bristol.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:42 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Seems like lot of terrible Tory votes coming through now. Hammered in Dacorum (Herts) and Milton Keynes. Let's watch those seat losses pile up.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 2:46 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Did Greg walk around waving Liam Byrne's letter?
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:00 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Doubtless this is better than other places, but the Lib Dems still went up 4 and the Tories down 1. That's not great for the Tories, when they had a local trump card issue.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:07 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Disaster for Labour in Slough. Council effectively bankrupt, so probably not unexpected.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:12 pm
by Andy McDandy
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 2:42 pm
Dacorum
Sounds like the byproduct of a certain editor's effusions.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:15 pm
by Spoonman
I see Reform have finally picked up a few councillors, six so far, but a piss in the sea compared to the Greens.
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:25 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Re: Local Elections 2023
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:27 pm
by davidjay
Stratford upon Avon goes LD. The Zahawi factor.