At very busy garden centre, first thing today. Looked around, and I realised a sizeable proportion of the mainly older people there blithely voted for a protofascist party in VE week. I suspect they think their parents and grandparents would have approved, conflating patriotism with nationalism. Heigh ho...
#LocalElections
In summary, #Reform did best in what has sometimes been characterised in the wake of the #Brexit referendum as 'left-behind' #Britain – places that have profited less from #globalisation and #university expansion and where a more #conservative outlook on #immigration is more common."
BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg467m8mjo
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Sir John Curtice: The map that reveals the extent of Reform's triumph - BBC News
"There doesn’t seem to be any understanding of the deep-seated emotion in the reaction of Labour supporters to the party’s behaviour in government over the past 10 months. There used to be talk of the need for emotional literacy in politics. What we are witnessing is a staggering level of emotional illiteracy"
John McDonnell in a righteous rant.
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Our local election results are in
Our local council has switched to Lib Dem control (good) but our ward (local area) now has one of the swivel-eyed-loonies from reform which is disappointing. Not that I expect them do anything but make noise
The national result of reform gains is scary because so many people seem happy to vote far right
Nobody likes a Tory. Everyone hates Starmer. The next General Election will be important
When Kent becomes a unitary authority these same people are going to vote for a hugely powerful mayor.
God Help Us.
#localelections #mayoralelections #kent #ReformUK
If anyone outside the alleged UK is wondering what's happening with the toots about local elections, this map should help.
The only part you need to focus on is the neon blue. Those are the counties (etc) of England (not Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland) that have voted Nazi.
The "Reform" party was formerly UKIP/Brexit Party. They just changed their name. It isn't even a proper "party" as such. It's a COMPANY.
England showing it's colonial true colours.
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2025-05-02Map shows the councils that have turned turquoise as Reform make huge gains
Come on Labour for goodness sake start listening. You're meant to be helping workers. The working class, pensioners, the disabled, little people. If you're not in that side who the fuck is? Forget culture wars. Forget penny pinching tax reforms. Be big. Tax the rich. If rich people threaten to leave, show them the door and just look after the ordinary men and women of this country. Ignore the right wing media. Just do the right thing. #politics #Labour #localelections
So my county council has gone to Reform. Good. When they make a fecking pig's ear of it everyone will see they're a bunch of charlatans. #localelections
All of the #LocalElections results are now in.
Reform dominated in the Midlands and the North, while the Lib Dems won the most seats in the South.
The Uniparty of Westminster has had its first blood. The Lib Dems and Reform should hopefully hit harder at future elections.
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The Tories need to lose more, labour need reminding who their supporters have been.
FINAL ENGLAND COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS
With all councils fully declared, these are the final results:
⚪ Reform UK: 677 (+677)
🟠 Liberal Democrats: 370 (+163)
🔵 Conservative: 317 (-676)
🔴 Labour: 99 (-186)
⚫ Independent/Localist: 89 (-20)
🟢 Green Party: 80 (+45)
Changes with 2021.
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WEST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS
⚪ Reform UK: 42 (+42)
🔵 Conservative: 17 (-35)
🔴 Labour: 9 (-9)
🟠 Liberal Democrats: 6 (+2)
⚫ Independents: 2 (=)
Reform GAIN from Conservatives.
Changes with 2021.
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ANALYSIS/COMMENTARY
Labour:
A bad set of results overshadowed by the far worse results for the Conservatives.
On the plus side they have held on to three mayors (including see off a Green challenge in the West of England), the only large council they've lost control of is County Durham (to Reform) and they've come second in the national voteshare - respectable for a mid-term government in the local elections.
On the downside they've lost seats to Reform on the right and to the Lib Dems/Greens on the left, they lost the Runcorn westminster by-election to Reform, have come 4th in council seats, and have seen strong Labour cities in southern England (Exeter, Cambridgeshire, Canterbury) experience major losses to Lib Dems/Greens.
And these elections were conducted largely outside Labour territory - had they been in Labour territory then these results could well have been a lot worse.
#ukpolitics #ukpol #electionresults #localelections2025 #localelections #Conservatives
ANALYSIS/COMMENTARY
Reform UK:
Have done exceedingly well. Came top in the projected national vote share (30%) and have essentially supplanted the Conservatives across the bits of rural England which were up for election this time.
They've gained two regional mayors, came close seconds in other mayoral races, and are now in outright control of TEN councils.
If you wanted to find a fly in the ointment it's that they've proven far better at winning Conservative seats than at taking seats from Labour, but they'll still be pleased with their significant gains from Labour.
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ANALYSIS/COMMENTARY
The Conservatives:
Have lost control of every council they were defending, have finished fourth in the projected national vote share and have lost more council seats than their own expectation management 'disaster' scenario.
The only silver lining was managing to gain the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough regional mayor from Labour on a very split voteshare.
They've lost masses of seats to Lib Dems/Greens in middle class 'blue wall' type seats and have lost many masses of socially conservative seats to Reform. They don't appear to have any safe heartlands left.
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2025-05-02Reform win councils, mayors and new MP after knife-edge by-election on historic night
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