Genie Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 33 minutes ago, Genie said: A bad day for the Tories in the usually blue Tamworth LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS ️Conservatives LOSE OVERALL CONTROL IN TAMWORTH️ Results by Wards for the local election in Tamworth. Amington - Labour Win Belgrave - Labour Win Bolehall - Labour Hold Castle - Labour Win Glascote - Labour Win Mercian - Labour Win Spital - Labour Win Stonydelph - Conservative Hold Trinity - Conservative Hold (just) Wilnecote - Labour Win I just read that it had been Conservative controlled for 20 years! Massive food for thought for Rishi this morning (who has been very quiet these last couple of weeks hasn’t he?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted May 5, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2023 Disastrous results overall for the Tories so far but I see some are out still trying to put a positive spin on things. I know politicians from all parties do it but it is ridiculous. You could imagine if their house blew up they'd say 'whilst obviously we are not happy the house has pretty much disappeared, I think we'll see once the dust has settled, we have made big gains in the size of the garden' 2 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2023 For some reason, Leeds doesn't even start counting until 10 o'clock this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 On 02/05/2023 at 08:56, Genie said: It sounds like a 5% pay increase, plus lump sum of at least £1,655 will be offered to NHS staff today. I voted to accept the offer as i know its pittance but cant expect much more from these clowns and im hoping inflation will go down soon to benefit something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Genie Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 England council results 62 of 230 councils. Counting under way. Number of councillors LAB 653 +119 Labour 653 councillors 119 councillors gained CON 454 -228 Conservative 454 councillors 228 councillors lost LD 332 +61 Liberal Democrat 332 councillors 61 councillors gained IND 226 +22 Independents 226 councillors 22 councillors gained GRN 55 +33 Green 55 councillors 33 councillors gained RA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 5, 2023 Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2023 That’s heading for a 1000 seat loss on an already bad election cycle. If that does occur it’s nothing short of a humiliating disaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted May 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2023 24 minutes ago, bickster said: That’s heading for a 1000 seat loss on an already bad election cycle. If that does occur it’s nothing short of a humiliating disaster Tories have been briefing their expectation of those sort of figures in the hopes it wouldn't be quite so bad and then they could claim it as a success. Looks like they're going to be right for once and have got the numbers about right. (Even a stopped clock and all that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 (edited) Cut taxes - that went really well last time Better value for state spending - £20b a month on loan interest which Sunak cocked up some time ago. Go for growth - that’s severely hampered by something which he strongly backed… They don’t have any tools or levers to pull to get them out of the mess they created themselves. Edited May 5, 2023 by Genie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 8 minutes ago, Genie said: Cut taxes - that went really well last time Better value for state spending - £20b a month on loan interest which Sunak cocked up some time ago. Go for growth - that’s severely hampered by something which he strongly backed… They don’t have any tools or levers to pull to get them out of the mess they created themselves. Surely those kind of Conservative voters will still vote Tory anyway? It's not like they vote Labour instead. What's kicking them is Boris's red voters and centrists probably going to Labour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 If anyone could fix it so that this becomes the dominant narrative for the Tory party over the next twelve months or so, that would be just lovely. Thanks 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 I voted for a local conservative candidate and a lib dem candidate in our local elections. I voted for 2 lib dems and 1 labour in our parish council elections. Personal preference in local elections is to look at the candidates that i feel are vocal and contributing to the area i live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2023 2 minutes ago, cheltenham_villa said: I voted for a local conservative candidate and a lib dem candidate in our local elections. I voted for 2 lib dems and 1 labour in our parish council elections. Personal preference in local elections is to look at the candidates that i feel are vocal and contributing to the area i live in. Sounds like you have a lot of ID's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 5, 2023 Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2023 Just now, sidcow said: Sounds like you have a lot of ID's. Some councils elect three councillors at a time, every four years, others 1 a year for a four year term with a fallow year every fourth year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Just now, sidcow said: Sounds like you have a lot of ID's. For Tewkesbury you can nominate 2 candidates, for Parish Council voting upto 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2023 Just now, bickster said: Some councils elect three councillors at a time, every four years, others 1 a year for a four year term with a fallow year every fourth year Yeah but that's not such an amusing conclusion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 5, 2023 Moderator Share Posted May 5, 2023 If you don't know, this is two Parliamentary constituencies. Bath (Already LibDem - Wera Hobhouse) and North East Somerset .... drumroll... Jacob Rees-Mogg's constituency 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted May 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 5, 2023 So funny that every interview Sunak still trots out the line that stopping the boats is important to people. Says it robotically and you can tell he doesn't believe it himself. If you put 100 people in a room and asked them what their top 5 issues were I doubt more than a couple would put stopping the boats in their top 5 worries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 3 minutes ago, bickster said: If you don't know, this is two Parliamentary constituencies. Bath (Already LibDem - Wera Hobhouse) and North East Somerset .... drumroll... Jacob Rees-Mogg's constituency Almost as if somebody reported this from the ground at 7am Quote Tories lost eight of their eleven seats on my local council, and the Lib Dems got 75% of the vote in the ward in which Jacob Rees-Mogg lives. It's a council that traditionally changes hands between Lib Dem control and Tory control at each election cycle so in "normal" times it should be the start of a new Tory run. Councillors elected was actually Tories 3, Lib Dems 41. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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