Vote Day Thursday 2/5/24 Results (Local Elections/Mayor votes)

[arista]

I am voting at 7AM sharp.

You can only Vote with a Photo ID

For those who do not bother to vote
you are the problem.

Today

Mayors in many zones
Police & Crime Commissioners
Some Voting Zones


Not in Troubled Scotland today.


[Local government elections in England
Local authority mayoral elections
Combined authority mayoral elections
Police and Crime Commissioner elections
Greater London Authority elections]

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-guidance/political-party/key-dates-2024



Sign of The Times.

[joeysteele]

I am voting at 7AM sharp.

You can only Vote with a Photo ID

For those who do not bother to vote
you are the problem.

Today

Mayors in many zones
Police & Crime Commissioners
Some Voting Zones


Not in Troubled Scotland today.


[Local government elections in England
Local authority mayoral elections
Combined authority mayoral elections
Police and Crime Commissioner elections
Greater London Authority elections]

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-guidance/political-party/key-dates-2024



Sign of The Times.



I'm heading out to do so right now arista, like yourself

Then get back for my breakfast. :joker:

[Zizu]

I have never voted and never EVER will. ..

Politics is full of completely corrupt and totally inept individuals - in the uk and everywhere else in the world

I can remember back to the days of Harold Wilson so we have had countless changes in government / parties … guess what … for the vast majority ( everyone in here for example) it doesn’t make a jot of difference to us who is in charge ..

[arista]

I'm heading out to do so right now arista, like yourself

Then get back for my breakfast. :joker:


You are Most Wise

[Crimson Dynamo]

no voting for me

[bots]

no voting for me

voting is what the deep state want you to do

[arista]

no voting for me


Of Course
you are in Scotland

[Crimson Dynamo]

Of Course
you are in Scotland

yes we have enough going on

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTq3zD6TOSP4cLFdR77vXCIc8702Wds_ yBli__0HpGp1Q&s

[arista]

On
SkyNewsHD
GBnewsHD
BBC1HD

all 3 reporting

On Radio
LBC
Radio 5

And

Until 3AM Times Radio DAB and free online
Matt Chorley with Election Night Live

Late night headlines and tomorrow's front pages.

[hijaxers]

I voted last week by post. I have always voted.

[smudgie]

I voted last week by post. I have always voted.

Ditto.

[arista]

Good on SkyNewsHD
letting the Reform fella in Blackpool.
Talk,

[arista]

Labour holds Sutherland


Blackpool South has to Elect a New MP
(Due to Scott Benton, corrupt Conservative
standing down)

[arista]

[Boris Johnson turned away
from polling station after forgetting to
bring photo ID]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

[joeysteele]

[Boris Johnson turned away
from polling station after forgetting to
bring photo ID]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

He likely wasn't sure of the rules or thought they didn't apply to him.

[arista]

Stockport stays NOC.

[arista]

Rushmoor Labour Gain from Conservative
Thurrock Labour Gain from NOC
Redditch Labour Gain from Conservatives
Hyndburn Labour Gain from NOC
Avon & Somerset Labour Gain from Conservatives
Cumbria Labour Gain from Conservatives
Adur Labour Gain from Conservatives
Milton Keynes Labour Gain From NOC

[arista]

Blackpool South By-Election (was Corrupt Scott Benton)

Is Won by Labour Chris Webb MP

10,825 Labour

3,218 Conservative
2,101 Reform UK

387 Lib Dem
368 Green.

[joeysteele]

Another massive 20+ percentage swing, this time 26% in Blackpool South

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/03/05/84403057-0-image-m-9_1714708975267.jpg


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13377851/Night-Tory-turmoil-ahead-Labour-hold-Sunderland-Reform-UK-boast-theyre-outperforming-Rishis-Conservatives-BEAT-seats-local-election-results-come-in.html

[arista]

Conservative Hold Harlow

Conservatives Hold Fareham

Conservatives Hold Broxbourne

Conservatives Hold Lincolnshire

Conservative Hold Walsall


Conservatives Hold Suffolk:Police Commissioners
Conservatives Hold Cambridgeshire: Police Commissioners





Portsmouth/
Sheffield/
Norwich remains under no overall control


Labour Hold Plymouth
Labour Hold Ipswich
Labour Hold Southampton
Labour Hold Worthing
Labour Hold Blackburn
Labour Hold Barnsley
Labour Hold Wolverhampton
Labour Hold Canbridge
Labour Hold Leeds
Labour Hold Crawley
Labour Hold Sandwell
Labour Hold Coventry
Labour Hold Bradford


Labour Hold North Wales : Police Commissioners
Labour Hold South Wales: Police Commissioners
Labour Hold Gwent: Police Commissioners


Labour retains control of South Tyneside and Newcastle-upon-Tyne

[Labour retained control of South Tyneside,
but lost at least seven seats to independents.

The party needed to win four seats of
the 14 seats it held going into polling day,
and while it achieved that,
its majority will be reduced.]

[arista]

Mayor Vote Counting
Starts on Saturday

Ref: GMBHD itv

[arista]

Labour has Lost Control of Oldham

8 Independents disrupted that result

To do with the Muslim Gaza vote
reports said

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMnsWojXkAAGfN1?format=jpg&name=small

[MTVN]

Labour has Lost Control of Oldham

8 Independents disrupted that result

To do with the Muslim Gaza vote
reports said

So now that council for four years will just have a load of people who mainly care about hating on Israel

Good for local people and services

[arista]

So now that council for four years will just have a load of people who mainly care about hating on Israel

Good for local people and services


Yes Labour is not talking about Oldham.

[arista]

Good on Richard Holden MP Conservative Chairman
Told Ed Balls on GMBHD itv

He is a Hack...........

[arista]

Starmer now Live in Blackpool
with his deputy.


Of Course a big swing



But The Conservative MP was corrupt
It was Labour expected to win.


Shame No one Shouts out OLDHAM

[arista]

Press now talking to Starmer


Mention OLDHAM will you
so far no one has

[joeysteele]

Oldham was expected.

There's other areas too like Burnley where Labour will be hit by the fury from former Councillors livid at the Party's failure to address the Israel/Palestine issue to their satisfaction.

That issue if Starmer doesn't get things smoothed over will remain a problem for him.
Even in a few seats in the general election.

[joeysteele]

Good grief.
The new Labour MP Chris Webb in Blackpool South.
Was more like reading a book than making a victory speech.

I'm pleased to see someone else is like myself who sometimes go on and on and on.

[bots]

Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID.

As first reported by Sky News, he returned later with the necessary ID and was able to vote.

He cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where voters are choosing a police and crime commissioner.

New rules requiring photo ID to vote were introduced by Mr Johnson's government in the Elections Act 2022.

The change was rolled out last year, with local elections in May 2023 the first time voters needed to show ID.

According to the Electoral Commission, about 14,000 people were unable to vote in last year's local elections in England as a result of the new rules.

[joeysteele]

Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID.

As first reported by Sky News, he returned later with the necessary ID and was able to vote.

He cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where voters are choosing a police and crime commissioner.

New rules requiring photo ID to vote were introduced by Mr Johnson's government in the Elections Act 2022.

The change was rolled out last year, with local elections in May 2023 the first time voters needed to show ID.

According to the Electoral Commission, about 14,000 people were unable to vote in last year's local elections in England as a result of the new rules.

I think I said earlier somewhere maybe on here.
Perhaps he wasn't sure of the rules or that they didn't apply to him.

[joeysteele]

Press now talking to Starmer


Mention OLDHAM will you
so far no one has

Labour will still run Oldham though.
It will just need support from a few others elected to the council.

It's still easily the largest party.

[bots]

Labour will still run Oldham though.
It will just need support from a few others elected to the council.

It's still easily the largest party.

all the other parties will come together to make sure the nutters can't do anything

[arista]

Good news for a Northern Mayor Ben
has Won.


Early Reports: LBC Live

[arista]

Labour will still run Oldham though.
It will just need support from a few others elected to the council.

It's still easily the largest party.


Wrong
8 Independents and labour will run the Council

[joeysteele]

Wrong
8 Independents and labour will run the Council

Exactly, they'll get support from some others.

Labour is still the massively dominant party there.

[arista]

Exactly, they'll get support from some others.

Labour is still the massively dominant party there.


It NOC

No Overal Control


These Independents have wrecked
labours plan,



Labour must agree to what they say.


Stop trying to make it not a NOC
JOEY

Be Fair

[smudgie]

Good news for a Northern Mayor Ben
has Won.


Early Reports: LBC Live

Not quite.
Still waiting for results from 2 wards.
He has won three out of five so far, including Hartlepool.
Fingers crossed for him, he is a good Mayor.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Reform might be about to wipe out the Tories

The Conservative party would have been lucky to have had a 1997-style wipeout. This result may prove terminal



Prof Sir John Curtice writes:

The overnight election results have been every bit as disappointing for the Conservatives as they might have feared.

The party is so far losing one in two of the seats they have been trying to defend. When all the results are in, it is at risk of suffering the catastrophic 500 losses of council seats that some analysts had predicted.

The party’s vote fell by 32.1 points in Blackpool South, making it the party’s third worst ever performance in a parliamentary by-election. With 16.9 per cent of the vote, its best performance yet, Reform appears to have done much of the damage.

Moreover, in the local elections the Conservative vote fell most heavily in those wards where Reform fielded a candidate. The only silver lining for Tory HQ was that Reform only contested one in six of the wards where there was an election on Thursday. A full slate would have been even more devastating.

Meanwhile, some of the evidence underneath the bonnet of the headlines will particularly worry the party.

First, detailed ward by ward results collected by the BBC suggest that on average support for the party is down on last year’s local elections. That slippage is consistent with the message of the opinion polls that, rather than closing the gap on Labour, the party has actually lost ground over the last twelve months.

Second, the fall in Conservative support is proving to be highest in the party’s heartlands. The better the Conservatives did locally in 2021, that is, when most of the seats being contested on Thursday were last fought, the greater the fall in their support now.

This pattern fits with the evidence of recent MRP polling, which suggested the Conservatives could win even fewer seats in the general election than the 165 to which they fell in 1997.

Third, Labour advanced most strongly by squeezing the Liberal Democrat vote in wards where the Tories were trying to fend off a Labour challenge.

If these patterns persist, it could cost the party dearly in the general election.

Downing St will be hoping for better news today, not least in Tees Valley where polls have suggested Ben Houchen could hang on to the post of Mayor. But on the evidence so far, possible isolated successes should not distract from the broader message of the local ballot boxes – the Conservative party is still in a very deep electoral hole.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/03/local-elections-conservative-party-1997-labour-rishi-sunak/

[arista]

Not quite.
Still waiting for results from 2 wards.
He has won three out of five so far, including Hartlepool.
Fingers crossed for him, he is a good Mayor.


Labour have given in.

LBC said

[joeysteele]

It NOC

No Overal Control


These Independents have wrecked
labours plan,



Labour must agree to what they say.


Stop trying to make it not a NOC
JOEY

Be Fair



arista what on earth are you on about.

It is a NOC control now.
Which means it needs 2 parties in coalition or the major one with support to run it.

It doesn't mean Labour will have to bow down and do all what others say.
They'll need to make concessions but it will still be Labour dominated.

Just as the councils where the Cons have lost their majority in.

[joeysteele]

Not quite.
Still waiting for results from 2 wards.
He has won three out of five so far, including Hartlepool.
Fingers crossed for him, he is a good Mayor.

Oh yes, Ben Houchen .

He has been a really good Mayor for Teesside I agree.

There'll be a big swing to Labour but I'm glad he is near certain to hold it.
Equally too Andy Street in the West Midlands actually.

I like Ben Houchen.
He deserves to not suffer from his Party's errors and lack of popularity.

[bots]

Reform might be about to wipe out the Tories

The Conservative party would have been lucky to have had a 1997-style wipeout. This result may prove terminal



Prof Sir John Curtice writes:

The overnight election results have been every bit as disappointing for the Conservatives as they might have feared.

The party is so far losing one in two of the seats they have been trying to defend. When all the results are in, it is at risk of suffering the catastrophic 500 losses of council seats that some analysts had predicted.

The party’s vote fell by 32.1 points in Blackpool South, making it the party’s third worst ever performance in a parliamentary by-election. With 16.9 per cent of the vote, its best performance yet, Reform appears to have done much of the damage.

Moreover, in the local elections the Conservative vote fell most heavily in those wards where Reform fielded a candidate. The only silver lining for Tory HQ was that Reform only contested one in six of the wards where there was an election on Thursday. A full slate would have been even more devastating.

Meanwhile, some of the evidence underneath the bonnet of the headlines will particularly worry the party.

First, detailed ward by ward results collected by the BBC suggest that on average support for the party is down on last year’s local elections. That slippage is consistent with the message of the opinion polls that, rather than closing the gap on Labour, the party has actually lost ground over the last twelve months.

Second, the fall in Conservative support is proving to be highest in the party’s heartlands. The better the Conservatives did locally in 2021, that is, when most of the seats being contested on Thursday were last fought, the greater the fall in their support now.

This pattern fits with the evidence of recent MRP polling, which suggested the Conservatives could win even fewer seats in the general election than the 165 to which they fell in 1997.

Third, Labour advanced most strongly by squeezing the Liberal Democrat vote in wards where the Tories were trying to fend off a Labour challenge.

If these patterns persist, it could cost the party dearly in the general election.

Downing St will be hoping for better news today, not least in Tees Valley where polls have suggested Ben Houchen could hang on to the post of Mayor. But on the evidence so far, possible isolated successes should not distract from the broader message of the local ballot boxes – the Conservative party is still in a very deep electoral hole.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/03/local-elections-conservative-party-1997-labour-rishi-sunak/


if the UK follows the way the USA is going, reform is basically the equivalent of maga, so it could be a major threat.

Reform becoming strong is probably one of the few things that would get me out voting, to make sure they don't get in

[arista]

Good no more Green MP now

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/03/06/1714712404384_lc_galleryImage_.JPG

[arista]

Conservative
Ben Houchen Still the Good Mayor


Official now


He was just on SkyNewsHD

[smudgie]

Conservative
Ben Houchen Still the Good Mayor


Official now


He was just on SkyNewsHD

Yes. So pleased about this, he has really served us well so far.

[Crimson Dynamo]

A glimmer of hope for Sunak

[Vanessa]

Labor in the lead. Brilliant news!

[Vanessa]

Conservatives have to go. It's time for labour to come back in government!

[arista]

Conservatives have to go. It's time for labour to come back in government!

Sure many months to go,
for the UK General Election

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/03/13/84415631-13379297-image-a-64_1714738271375.jpg

[arista]

Labour Lady becomes New North East Mayor.

Beating the for Former Labour Mayor good fella, Jamie Driscoll
he came 2nd running as an independent mayor.

[arista]

[Kim McGuinness New Labour North East Mayor

total votes 185,051
share 41.3%]


[Independent, Jamie Driscoll

total votes 126,652
share 28.2%]


Data : BBC

[arista]

Still over 50 Votes still to come


LibDems think they will win some?

Later today

[arista]

PM Sunak with Ben Houchen Mayor

at the Airport
that only Ben kept open.


Live on TV News


Labour wanted to take that Mayor.
They Failed

[arista]

https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/425249689_962467311910088_8453585002459144835_n.jp g?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=4ps9qnpeUigQ7kNvgGdRJ7w&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=00_AfBg05khe1ytgxSJLfSEJbAh7OCEss4Cn47hLiPbQe8_ HA&oe=663ACD57

[arista]

Starmer said they would take Harlow?

Conservative Hold Harlow

Conservatives Hold Fareham

Conservatives Hold Broxbourne

Conservatives Hold Lincolnshire


Conservative Hold Walsall



Conservatives Lost Baslidon to NOC

[arista]

Former Army Capt. Took his Army ID
to vote, they said after going through 20 pages
they said no.

He was just, Live on LBC.

He had to then go to work
did not have time
to go home to get another ID.


An angry Older caller
went without I.D.

He said he was on their list.

LBC presenter fella
said do you know you can get a free ID card
downloaded.

Angry fella said he did not have a Computer.

The council should help him

[arista]

One Old Lady took her Photo Costco Card

she was refused
She Ripped up her Voter Form.

Another Older Lady
with No Computer


LBC Live

[Vanessa]

I can't vote. If I could I would definitely vote labour.

[arista]

I can't vote. If I could I would definitely vote labour.

Why not?

I assume an Italian passport

[Vanessa]

Why not?

I assume an Italian passport

Yes, I have an Italian passport. I can only vote for Italian elections.

[arista]

Yes, I have an Italian passport. I can only vote for Italian elections.

Fair Play to you
it's great you are honest in backing Labour

[arista]

SkyNews has done an Early Projection
for House of Commons

Labour +93 Total 294 Seats
Conservative -130 Total 242 Seats
LibDem +30 Total 38 Seats
Others +7 Total 66 Seats


Which means Labour are short of 32 seats
Making it a Hung Parliament


So Labour has more hard work to do
like Oldham

[bots]

I don't think labour have the lead that they think they have, and once the election is announced, all bets are off

[arista]

I don't think labour have the lead that they think they have, and once the election is announced, all bets are off


Good point.

Many are saying just that.

[Vanessa]

I don't think labour have the lead that they think they have, and once the election is announced, all bets are off

I hope they win

[arista]

Labour think Andy Street Conservative Mayor
could win tomorrow

Ref: Andy Bell on Ch5HDnews
in Westminster

[arista]

No wins for LibDems?


although some zones are still to come in.

[rusticgal]

Massive kick in the teeth for Labour. They should have won by a landslide. Starmer needs to go if they want to win by a majority...he is useless imo.

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/03/16/84425183-0-image-m-42_1714751077279.jpg

[arista]

https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1786401792864989212

[arista]

We should find out tomorrow

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1785571951236231168/Txi0etuC?format=jpg&name=small

[Kate!]

Massive kick in the teeth for Labour. They should have won by a landslide. Starmer needs to go if they want to win by a majority...he is useless imo.

Absolutely. People do not like Starmer. Surely Labour can see this?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Absolutely. People do not like Starmer. Surely Labour can see this?

did you notice he now DOES know that women don't have penises now that we are in election time and that the tide is now turning on that nonsense?

what a piece of work he is

untrustworthy

[arista]

Cold War Steve
Remix Art.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMpa8guXMAAlC8z?format=jpg&name=small

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1218/live/6ad2c630-0995-11ef-bee9-6125e244a4cd.png.webp

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8039/live/45320310-0994-11ef-b9d8-4f52aebe147d.png.webp

[arista]

LibDems Gain Dorset from the Conservatives

[arista]

Today we should find out the London Mayor's result,
unless they have to do a re-count.


Also in England, more Mayors are to be announced, today

[arista]

Reform UK got 2 New Councillors,

A Women's group got 1 Councillor
(The Name of the Women's group was too long)
Did a search got this
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5067707-womens-equality-party-win-their-first-council-seat

Live on LBC now
Matt Wright is arguing
Richard Tice of Reform UK got loads of TV interviews.

Well I watched Green folk
yesterday on BBC
they got loads of interviews

Matt Wright wants a general election called.

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/04/09/84449323-0-image-m-8_1714812084486.jpg

Andy Street Mayor(on the left)

We find out today if he has Won?

[arista]

Starmer Now Live with the New Labour East Midlands Mayor.

on 2 news channels

[arista]

Some Callers
calling in LBC
saying, they will not vote for Starmer

[joeysteele]

Good luck to the candidates for West Midlands Mayor.
Andy Street has a strong personal vote and it would be expected to see him hold on I think.
He's another who has distanced himself rather from the government.
Brand Andy rather than Tory.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I just hand-filled in a 4 page questionnaire handed in by my local Conservative and Unionist candidate which I will post later

It asked a lot of questions about the Scottish government as well as how the council is performing

Very cathartic :hee:

[arista]

Good luck to the candidates for West Midlands Mayor.
Andy Street has a strong personal vote and it would be expected to see him hold on I think.
He's another who has distanced himself rather from the government.
Brand Andy rather than Tory.


Yes they are Clever Mayors
doing good

[arista]

I am sure when Andy Street Wins

Sunak will be there.

[arista]

Manchester Labour Hold

Labour 87 -2
LibDems 4 +1
Green 3
Others 2 +1

SkyNewsHD

Also :

Epping Forest Conservative Hold

Conservative lose Gloucester to NOC

[Crimson Dynamo]

Keir Starmer has declared he is confident Sadiq Khan will achieve a historic third term as Mayor of London as his Tory challenger Susan Hall aims to secure an upset.

Speaking on a visit to the East Midlands, where Labour triumphed in the first ever metro mayor contest, Sir Keir told reporters Mr Khan was “absolutely the right candidate” amid speculation the result could be tighter than many predicted.

“He has got two terms of delivery behind him and I am confident that he has got another term of delivery in front of him,” Sir Keir said.


:umm2:

we are doomed

[arista]

Results from Liverpool Mayor


Labour Wins Steve Rotherham Re Elected Mayor


Steve Rotherham 183,932


Conservatives 27,708
Greens 26,417

[Crimson Dynamo]

K - Gipton and Harehills in Leeds, has been won by the … erm ….Green Party.

Here the winning candidate makes it clear what his agenda is and it certainly
doesn’t sound like it’s the environment “Allahu Akbar”

The media has neglected to show you this council result.

https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1786688318505201731

:umm2:

[arista]

Labour Wins South Yorkshire Mayor

Oliver Coppard Re-Elected for Labour

[arista]

K - Gipton and Harehills in Leeds, has been won by the … erm ….Green Party.

Here the winning candidate makes it clear what his agenda is and it certainly
doesn’t sound like it’s the environment “Allahu Akbar”

The media has neglected to show you this council result.

https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1786688318505201731

:umm2:


Yes Holding up the Palestine Flag
Nothing to do with the Local Election

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yes Holding up the Palestine Flag
Nothing to do with the Election

not a Green but a Trojan Horse

this is happening more and more

[arista]

not a Green but a Trojan Horse

this is happening more and more


Yes this Stinks

[AnnieK]

We are expecting the Manchester mayor announcement at 2pm.
No doubt media Burnham will be re-elected

[arista]

We are expecting the Manchester mayor announcement at 2pm.
No doubt media Burnham will be re-elected


Easy Win

[Crimson Dynamo]

easy win

just as it will be an easy win for weasel khan

[arista]

George Galloway Workers Party has 4 Councillors

Reform UK has 2 Councillors

[arista]

just as it will be an easy win for weasel khan

Of Course

[Oliver_W]

Khan was reelected.

[joeysteele]

Khan was reelected.

By just over a 10% margin too.

Quite surprising the scale of his win.
Good luck to him, I hope this time he will deliver better for London.
Unlike in his last term just ended.

[Crimson Dynamo]

London is lost and really has very little in common with the rest of the UK

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/04/16/84455845-0-image-m-25_1714835678571.jpg

[UserSince2005]

Surely there is now a mandate for sharia law in london

[Oliver_W]

By just over a 10% margin too.

Quite surprising the scale of his win.
Good luck to him, I hope this time he will deliver better for London.
Unlike in his last term just ended.

Why would his third term be any better?

But then, he had a decent win and I don't even live in London - I disagree with ULEZ and side-eye the crime stats, but maybe Londoners see something I don't :shrug:

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/04/15/84454573-13382189-image-m-4_1714831800296.jpg

Andy Street is on recount

[joeysteele]

Why would his third term be any better?

But then, he had a decent win and I don't even live in London - I disagree with ULEZ and side-eye the crime stats, but maybe Londoners see something I don't :shrug:

I haven't a clue.
Which is why I only said I HOPED this time that he'd deliver better for London.
Not that I KNEW he would.

[arista]

38.7 Andy Street

36.5 Labour

So Far


SkyNewsHD

[arista]

In Tunbridge Wells, the Lib Dems have gained the council,
it was Conservative.

[Beso]

By just over a 10% margin too.

Quite surprising the scale of his win.
Good luck to him, I hope this time he will deliver better for London.
Unlike in his last term just ended.

60 percent didnt vote..

Nobody can complain.

[joeysteele]

60 percent didnt vote..

Nobody can complain.

True that is parmnion.

The mayoral elections are poorly supported and voted in.

[arista]

Sadly Andy Street does not win. (224,082)

Labour Win West Midland Mayor 225,590

New :Richard Parker Mayor Labour Party

[joeysteele]

I feel sorry for Andy Street.
That was a hard battle indeed.

[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[Alf]

Definitely not rigged. You can tell by this that he's popular.



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[Cherie]

Definitely not rigged. You can tell by this that he's popular.



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Susan whats her name was a terrible Tory candidate, but RIP London indeed another 3 years of this shyster

[Crimson Dynamo]

SIR – Following the Blackpool South by-election result, the usual
Conservative suspects came on air to warn us that voting for Reform UK may
let in Labour, and that its voters should hence continue to support the
Government, despite its track record.

I always want to ask these people if they would run a business this way. If
they had hired someone who presented well at interview, but who, once
installed, proved dishonest, incompetent, lazy, spendthrift and unwilling to
carry out any of the agreed work, would they keep on paying that person for
fear of hiring someone even worse?

The Conservative Party needs to be ejected from office as a goal in itself,
because if it is not, it will not change. This is entirely separate from the
question of who replaces it. It will then be up to the party to reflect in
opposition on where it went wrong, and return to the electorate in due course
with a Conservative offering.

J P Redman
London NW11

[arista]

The Online Only Paper:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMykWCwWEAAgFh_?format=jpg&name=small

[joeysteele]

The woman chosen to stand for Mayor in London was a horrible candidate.
The terrible judgement in choosing her from the Cons only highlights their incompetence.

As for former Con voters voting for Reform party.
This arrogant PM and his backside crawling Ministers, just don't get those voters don't much care whether Labour now wins.
They just have decided this government has to be gone.

Their arrogance to think just saying vote Reform get Labour matters shows how detached from reality this PM is
Those voters don't care if Labour gets in, they just want this Con government OUT.

[arista]

Professor Michael Thrasher
on Trevor Phillips SkyNewsHD
pointed out Starmer has to get
more than Blair did.

Labour must get 326 seats, in the next General Election.

It is a Huge number.

On Thursday Local Election it was
Labour at 7 point ahead.
They would have to Double that.

Thrasher's Numbers are also in the Sunday Times.

Trevor's show in full is replayed on YouTube

"Possible" Hung Parliament.
Due to The smaller Parties and Gaza Vote blockages

[joeysteele]

Professor Michael Thrasher
on Trevor Phillips SkyNewsHD
pointed out Starmer has to get
more than Blair did.

Labour must get 326 seats, in the next General Election.

It is a Huge number.

On Thursday Local Election it was
Labour at 7 point ahead.
They would have to Double that.

Thrasher's Numbers are also in the Sunday Times.

Trevor's show in full is replayed on YouTube

"Possible" Hung Parliament.
Due to The smaller Parties and Gaza Vote blockages

It is a 9% lead
34% over 25% is a 9 difference.
Not 7.
So he's wrong on that .
There were NO elections in Scotland and only Police crime commissioner ones in Wales..
So no hard data from there .

Plus in local elections, the Independent candidates take a higher share of votes than they ever do in general elections

Selective analysis of results is fine for fun.
However not always the best guide..

However hey, a hung parliament is fine by me in fact my wish for PR would only give hung parliaments.
A hung parliament would be the end of this shambolic government because there's no other party in parliament ( maybe the DUP possibly might),which would support this present Con party as a governing force.

So fine by me.

[Vanessa]

Come on Labour. Really rooting for them.
They can't be any worse than the Tories.

[arista]

[However hey, a hung parliament is fine by me]

Sure but
Labour will not like that.

[joeysteele]

Come on Labour. Really rooting for them.
They can't be any worse than the Tories.

I doubt any other could be, even just as bad never mind worse, except perhaps the DUP and Reform.

However under this outdated and unrepresentative election system we have, realistically there can only be either a Con led government or Labour led government.
So the surest way to get this shower of a disaster hard-line heartless CON government out, is to vote Labour.

Where Lib Dems are the only alternative however in some seats too, it would be better voting Lib Den there to help get the Cons out too.

[bots]

i think the seats that labour would pick up in Scotland would give labour a good majority. It can't be ignored that labour will do much better there

[joeysteele]

[However hey, a hung parliament is fine by me]

Sure but
Labour will not like that.

LABOUR have had to operate in almost hung parliament or tiny majority territory many times and did.
1950 to 1951.
1964 to 1966.
1974 then right through to 1979.

They'd manage because they can compromise which is something the Cons don't.

A Labour minority supported by the Lib Dems, or even Greens if they had a few more seats.
Or even the SNP.
All that could work pretty well in my view..
A Labour/ Lib Dem coalition or pact could work too.
It did in the late 70s for a fair period of time.

[arista]

Yes Joey Sure they would have to
deal with it.

And Scotland is the key
to the Labour increase

[arista]

In General a Low Turn Out

Labour Party
1,158 +186
Labour 1,158 councillors 186 councillors gained

LibDems
522 +104
Liberal Democrat 522 councillors 104 councillors gained

Conservative Party
515 -474
Conservative 515 councillors 474 councillors lost

Independents
228 +93
Independents 228 councillors 93 councillors gained

Green Party
181 +74
Green 181 councillors 74 councillors gained

Resident Association
48 +11



All numbers from BBC

[Crimson Dynamo]

do you agree with Emma??

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E03AQGqmVba7nFNHw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1667152287181?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=0RHaMzzXRrNH8B2n7v0kPzyAAfg2_CKyUheA7NAjJ6s

Video:https://x.com/emmaroc33249448/status/1786780710008733853

[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[joeysteele]

Sunak has some audacity to warn of coalition under Labour

When his Party inflicted heartless hard-line policies in COALITION with the LibDems for a full 5 years.
They the Cons were propped up after 2017, by of all Parties the extreme DUP .

What utter hypocrisy from Sunak.
So only the Cons are allowed coalitions or support from other Parties, no other.
Their ignorance and arrogance just gets worse

[arista]

Sunak has some audacity to warn of coalition under Labour

When his Party inflicted heartless hard-line policies in COALITION with the LibDems for a full 5 years.
They the Cons were propped up after 2017, by of all Parties the extreme DUP .

What utter hypocrisy from Sunak.
So only the Cons are allowed coalitions or support from other Parties, no other.
Their ignorance and arrogance just gets worse



Very True

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/05/22/84487467-13385449-Members_of_the_Blackburn_Independents_group_who_ad opted_the_Pale-a-5_1714945267087.jpg
[Members of the Blackburn Independents group who
adopted the Palestinian flag in their
campaign for election]

[arista]

This Stinks
the leader of the Green Party (Carla Denyer)
Live On BBC/Sky/Ch4 yesterday,
was not aware of this winner
who is an Extreme Muslim winner of the Greens.


[The moment a Green Party councillor shouts
'Allahu Akbar' after being elected in Leeds]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/05/22/84487455-13385449-image-a-17_1714944138216.jpg

[arista]

[Dozens of pro-Gaza activists are elected
to councils across Britain as fears grow
the Middle East conflict will dominate
many town halls after Muslim Vote group
issues Keir Starmer with a list of 18 demands]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13385449/Dozens-pro-Gaza-activists-elected-councils-Britain-fears-grow-Middle-East-conflict-dominate-town-halls-Muslim-Vote-group-issues-Keir-Starmer-list-18-demands.html

[Crimson Dynamo]

Perhaps @TheGreenParty you may want to investigate your Councillor for
Gipton & Harehills seat Mohin Ali, to confirm this alleged
@X post is true.

(he deleted the account at the weekend...:rolleyes:)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GM1I6e6W0AAqWP3?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1787165282445754798

[arista]

[Perhaps @TheGreenParty you may want to investigate your Councillor for
Gipton & Harehills seat Mohin Ali]


Yes today I hope
Good on the DM
to cover this Extreme Muslim
in HER Party

[joeysteele]

[Perhaps @TheGreenParty you may want to investigate your Councillor for
Gipton & Harehills seat Mohin Ali]


Yes today I hope
Good on the DM
to cover this Extreme Muslim
in HER Party

I'm not sure Carla Denyer has much idea of candidates really.
Nor the co- leader of the Greens either.
Why do they need 2 leaders???

Caroline Lucas I really admire and she is a good representative of the Greens but Carla Denyer comes across not genuine, sorry for saying that.
She comes across to me as hiding real intentions of how far she'd want to go re controlling others lives on green issues.

[arista]

[I'm not sure Carla Denyer has much idea of candidates really.]


Sure but they all asked her yesterday
so by today she can say that an Extreme Muslim is wrong

[arista]

Lucas is standing down
So do not need her NOW

[joeysteele]

[I'm not sure Carla Denyer has much idea of candidates really.]


Sure but they all asked her yesterday
so by today she can say that an Extreme Muslim is wrong

Well like all politicians of all Parties.
She's another who avoids dealing with more controversial matters.

[arista]

Well like all politicians of all Parties.
She's another who avoids dealing with more controversial matters.


No

By now Conservative or Labour or LibDem
would have spoken on this Extreme Muslim Winner.

[joeysteele]

No

Buy now Conservative or Labour or LibDem
would have spoken on this Extreme Muslim Winner.


Not always arista is that the case.

Plus the media tend to try to or more overlook ( for want of a better description), the Green Party's secrecy and lack of transparency.
Or candidate issues too.

[arista]

Not always arista is that the case.

Plus the media tend to try to or more overlook ( for want of a better description), the Green Party's secrecy and lack of transparency.
Or candidate issues too.



https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/06/11/84505295-0-image-m-11_1714991616771.jpg


[Sir Keir Starmer pictured in Birmingham on
Saturday after Labour won the West Midlands
mayoral election.
The Labour leader said he was keen
to 'win back the trust' of voters who
didn't turn out for the party over
its position on Gaza]


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/06/10/84503991-13386393-In_a_social_media_post_on_the_day_of_the_election_ The_Muslim_Vot-a-37_1714988937547.jpg


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13386393/Muslim-vote-list-demands-Keir-Starmer-Labour-Gaza-Palestine.html

[Oliver_W]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-53272458-6d0a-4744-b3c0-4a147dc59929.png

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/05/22/84487467-13385449-Members_of_the_Blackburn_Independents_group_who_ad opted_the_Pale-a-5_1714945267087.jpg
[Members of the Blackburn Independents group who
adopted the Palestinian flag in their
campaign for election]

This Stinks
the leader of the Green Party (Carla Denyer)
Live On BBC/Sky/Ch4 yesterday,
was not aware of this winner
who is an Extreme Muslim winner of the Greens.


[The moment a Green Party councillor shouts
'Allahu Akbar' after being elected in Leeds]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/05/22/84487455-13385449-image-a-17_1714944138216.jpg

Not gonna lie, that's all pretty sinister.

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMxXvAdXgAANbx6?format=jpg&name=small


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMxXvAkXIAA4ixd?format=jpg&name=small


The 2 Wins by LibDem

[arista]

SkyNews Text :
[The Greens are facing fury over their failure
to suspend a councillor who launched
a hate-filled tirade against a rabbi]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-3b97d0ad-c5c9-4150-86d3-e9fca90ee95d.jpeg

[Crimson Dynamo]

Back in February Daily Mail feature writer Guy Adams presented the Greens with a dossier
of offensive comments made by Mr Ali, including the tirade against Rabbi Deutsch, who
was later forced into hiding.

The Greens are a disgusting party that they did not act on this

[arista]

[When Hamas terrorists gleefully recorded themselves
kidnapping, raping and killing Israeli civilians on
October 7 2023, their actions were accompanied
by unmistakeable cries of ‘Allahu Akbar!’

The same is true of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan,
and of Islamic extremists the world over.
The phrase, meaning God is great, has become,
I’m afraid, their battle cry.

So when Mothin Ali, the newly
elected Leeds City councillor
for the Green Party,
who celebrated his win with the
same victory cry, claims that criticism
of his behaviour amounts to
‘Islamophobia’, he is being more than
a little disingenuous.

Yes, to many Muslims it is simply an exclamation
of religious fervour, but he must know full
well what associations those words also
have for survivors and families of the victims
of Islamist atrocities, for Jews in Britain — and for all
of us who fear the rise of religious extremism.
They are, as the young people say,
a bit of a trigger.]


That text came DM+
you have to pay to go on those posts.

But if you are fast
when you first click it.
The text appears, then goes
so copy it fast


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/07/16/84568347-0-image-a-25_1715097189722.jpg

[Crimson Dynamo]

[When Hamas terrorists gleefully recorded themselves
kidnapping, raping and killing Israeli civilians on
October 7 2023, their actions were accompanied
by unmistakeable cries of ‘Allahu Akbar!’

The same is true of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan,
and of Islamic extremists the world over.
The phrase, meaning God is great, has become,
I’m afraid, their battle cry.

So when Mothin Ali, the newly
elected Leeds City councillor
for the Green Party,
who celebrated his win with the
same victory cry, claims that criticism
of his behaviour amounts to
‘Islamophobia’, he is being more than
a little disingenuous.

Yes, to many Muslims it is simply an exclamation
of religious fervour, but he must know full
well what associations those words also
have for survivors and families of the victims
of Islamist atrocities, for Jews in Britain — and for all
of us who fear the rise of religious extremism.
They are, as the young people say,
a bit of a trigger.]


That text came DM+
you have to pay to go on those posts.

But if you are fast
when you first click it.
The text appears, then goes
so copy it fast


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/07/16/84568347-0-image-a-25_1715097189722.jpg

funny how Islam is the only religion with a "aphobia"

wonder why?

:think:

[Crimson Dynamo]

London Mayor Sadiq Khan with "Islam" microphone: "The children of Muslims
who are underemployed or in jobs not suited to their great skills will have
subsidies and I will build housing for those of Islamic faith. Diversity is our
strength!"

https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1788080772613591040/img/x13TOY3FlkDOkCks.jpg


https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1788081098074808382

[Zizu]

London Mayor Sadiq Khan with "Islam" microphone: "The children of Muslims
who are underemployed or in jobs not suited to their great skills will have
subsidies and I will build housing for those of Islamic faith. Diversity is our
strength!"

https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1788080772613591040/img/x13TOY3FlkDOkCks.jpg


https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1788081098074808382


Bloody hell


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