Labour Gain Wandsworth and may also win Westminster Council

Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
They're an absolute disgrace and have been for a number of years when it comes to impartiality in politics.
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festa5 said:
The BBC coverage is borderline Tory propaganda. The charts seem to be directly contradicting the "expert analysis" and there's little to no mention of the fact labour had more seats to defend so harder to make gains.

What is encouraging is the number of Tory councillors explicitly blaming Johnson. There's a lot of anger there (not that I have any sympathy whatsoever). If their grassroots start turning on him that only adds to the pressure.
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The establishment now have virtually full control of the media with very few dissenting voices.
 
UK (excluding NI) wide as it stands Con has lost 486 council seats and Labour has gained 137.
This is the BBC's interpretation of the results.

How anyone cannot describe this as a disaster for the Tories and a good night for Labour is beyond me.
 
I’m a bit late to this. But it’s a shocking capitulation.

I live in Huntingdonshire. John Major was our MP when he was PM. It was the safest seat in the country at one election.

Several prominent conservatives on the council have lost their seat. Including the leader. Who apparently stormed out of the count in a huff when he realised he’d lost. They have lost overall control of the council for the first time since 1976. Mainly to independents but the od Labour/lib dem gain and for the first time a green has been elected.

Sadly my town still elected three tories. Shameful.

I just hope it isn’t all forgotten about at the next general election.
 
TeessideCleveland said:
The Mail has no shame - like Johnson - and will spin whatever it wants.
Its main political piece on the site earlier was 'beergate'not the election results - so those swingometers won't be assessed or spun - just forgotten
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Rumoured that Wes Streeting will launch a leadership bid should Keir Starmer have to stand down as a result of #beergate.
 
SuperStu said:
🤣 an irrevant detour... But it was absolutely vital to drop in some bullsh*t the old left are uniquely uncompromising? Please.
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My post was about Labour moving to a progressive alliance. Talking about internal opposition to that was surely pertinent, wasn't it?

I could have avoided mentioning where that opposition primarily comes from I suppose, but why should I? It's not wrong. It's well known. I don't think those opposed to the progressive alliance hide their opposition because it is a valid position and there are dangers to it. It's certainly well known that a progressive alliance is very popular with the new younger members and that this has already been happening organically at local level. Starmer admitted there were informal talks, that was a deliberate signal.

The Labour right of the Party, between 2015 and 2017 behaved outrageously towards Jeremy Corbyn, their assessment of him being an unsuitable leader was correct, but the actions of some of them were not.*




* I've added the required additional point and are you seriously telling me it doesn't look like an odd detour?
 
'This absolutely does not look like a party on the verge of entering no.10' re; the Opposition .. that is honestly the biggest thing to take from all this??

Nick Watt BBC on Newsnight ... if a near 500-seat loss for the Tories is bad, well they could have fooled me. 'Boris Johnson is safe at the moment' has to be one of the most repeated lines on every news broadcast every night over the past year or two.

This is absolutely pathetic. 'Bullish Boris Back on Track' ffs

He just never will **** off BJ will he, no matter how bad it gets.
 
Cosmonaut said:
He just never will **** off BJ will he, no matter how bad it gets.
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In a word no.
Time was if a politician in power did something wrong, they did the honourable thing and fell on their sword.
He’s obsessed with clinging onto power.

The only comfort I take from this is that it’s obvious the country, and people in the shires are fed up with the lies the deception and the bull sh1t.

My fear is it’ll all be forgot about by 2024
 
If thats the case then St Albans is the place to live The council is now made up of 56 councillors, 50 of which are now LibDem with the loss of 23 Con councillors in this election.
 
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