Arbury (Nuneaton and Bedworth) council result:
Con: 67.4% (+24.6) Lab: 25.7% (-9.5) Grn: 5.4% (-) Ind: 1.4% (+1.4)
No UKIP (-15.2)
Con HOLD
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Camp Hill (Nuneaton and Bedworth) council result:
Con: 53.1% (+35.3) Lab: 33.0% (-15.7) Grn: 10.9% (+5.6) Oth: 3.0% (-)
No UKIP (-25.3)
Con GAIN from Lab
Beacon and Bents (South Tyneside) council result:
Grn: 46.5% (+34.2) Lab: 28.3% (-28.3) Ind: 16.9% (+16.9) Con: 8.3% (-1.3)
No UKIP (-20.6) as prev.
Grn GAIN from Lab
Bar Pool (Nuneaton and Bedworth) council result:
Con: 55.8% (+26.3) Lab: 32.7% (-13.8) Grn: 8.2% (+3.2) Ind: 3.3% (+3.3)
No UKIP (-17.5) as prev.
Con GAIN from Lab
Kingswood (Nuneaton and Bedworth) council result:
Con: 55.3% (+33.3) Lab: 36.9% (-12.3) Grn: 5.6% (+0.9) Oth: 2.2% (+0.6)
No UKIP (-22.5) as prev.
Con GAIN from Lab
Cramlington South East (Northumberland) council result:
Con: 61.8% (+27.9) Lab: 38.2% (-4.8)
No LDem (-16.5) and UKIP (-5.2) as prev.
Con GAIN from Lab
Cramlington South East (Northumberland) council result:
Con: 61.8% (+27.9) Lab: 38.2% (-4.8)
No LDem (-16.5) and UKIP (-5.2) as prev.
Con GAIN from Lab
Cramlington South East (Northumberland) council result:
Con: 61.8% (+27.9) Lab: 38.2% (-4.8)
No LDem (-16.5) and UKIP (-5.2) as prev.
Con GAIN from Lab
Cramlington South East (Northumberland) council result:
Con: 61.8% (+27.9) Lab: 38.2% (-4.8)
No LDem (-16.5) and UKIP (-5.2) as prev.
Con GAIN from Lab
so i guess with UKIP no longer being relevant, Labour has been exposed as even more incompetent than we thought
Absolutely pathetic showing. Labor has lost seats they have never lost before, ever, both to the conservatives and the goddamn LibDems. Starmer is so bad he is causing a LibDems surge.
i keep running these pessimistic long-term scenarios in my mind, like we're going to regress back to a Tory-Whig dichotomy and we'll have to go through the whole labour movement again once they've abolished the weekend, the NHS, child labour laws and universal suffrage.
first as tragedy, then as farce etc.
there one of him as a pirate, can't remember what its called tho
:punished-bernie: are you talking about bearded bernie? or is there a corbyn version too that i just havent seen?
Labour leadership “leaning hard right did not improve numbers. Obviously it’s because we didn’t lean far enough right!”
For every former coal miner we lose in Manchester, we'll pick up 3 ruddy pigmen in the Weatherspoon's off the M4.
Voters are punishing Labour for not purging Corbyn's violent Stalinist antisemitism hard enough. If sir Keith wants to win back voters he has to go further to the right.
The start of a Guardian article sent to me this morning by a family member:
While Labour had accepted the early results were likely to be among the worst of the series of votes across all of the UK except Northern Ireland, the immediate message from Starmer and his allies was to push for a more rapid move away from the Jeremy Corbyn era.
Labour was “not yet changing fast enough” to win back the support of voters, the shadow communities secretary, Steve Reed, said.
Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Reed said it had been “a very difficult and disappointing night”.
He said: “It tells us something we need to know. Although the Labour party is changing, we’re clearly not yet changing fast enough to win back the trust that has been lost over recent years.”
The party’s problems “run very, very deep”, Reed said, adding: “It was always going to take more than a year, given the breakdown in trust between the Labour party and very many people right across this country.
Sir Keith is on the right track. The results shows that people want Tories so for Labour to win it has to become at least as Tory as the Tories.
Once sir Keith casts off the yoke of Corbyn's antisemitism and comes out as a clear supporter of bringing back fox hunting but with refugees and the unemployed instead of foxes, the people will flock to the Labour party.
Neolibs: this is evidence that labour is still too far to the left
The UK got the vaccine earlier than most countries, that's why the Conservatives are being rewarded. Most voters are apolitical.
The Conservaties presided over more than 100,000 needless deaths, and disruption to our lives. Starmer utterly failed to provide any kind of opposition at all, so the Conservatives haven't been blamed for this. And the UK has actually fallen considerably behind the US in the pace of vaccination.
Also if you actually look at the results, a lot of it is Labour plummeting rather than the Tories surging.
Exactly.
Plus, the UK has been essentially a one-party state for a hundred years or more. Starmer (who gets the wall) just formalized it.
This is genuinely the big thing. Ignoring his politics, Starmer is still absolutely shit opposition and spent a majority of the pandemic supporting every choice Johnson made, with maybe a few changes he would point out.
That's not strong enough to convince people that you're better than the opposition.
