Well done smudgie.
You and I have some agreements and disagreements on politics.
However you know your stuff too and I always read what you say.

I always encourage people to vote, even if they are voting opposite to myself.

It's just so sad we are so ill served by a strong number of politicians.
Most are really trying their best but sadly near all of them having leaders who are the worst set of Party leaders likely ever.

My choices at the council elections are. Conservative, Labour or Lib Dem. What a choice.

I think I'm just gonna write Brexit on my ballot paper, and vote for none of them.

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Labour Hold Stevenage
Labour hold Coventry
Conservative lose Tandrige to No Overall Control
Thurrock remains under No Overall Control
Conservative lose St.Albans to No Overall Control
Portsmouth remains under No Overall Control
Conservative Lose Peterborough to No Overall Control
Labour Lose Hartlepool and Wiral to NOC
Conservative Lose Southend On Sea
Conservative Hold Swindon
Conservative Gain North East Lincolnshire from NOC
Conservative Lose Basildon
Liberal Democrats Hold Eastleigh
Labour Hold Plymouth

I have voted already

The op can not vote

Life in the sky and Bt sports lane

Independent parties are doing extremely well

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I voted for Black country party but they didnt get in all though they had a very good result for their first ever election

it's not good for either of the main parties, but labour should be the most concerned. It's normal for the government to lose council seats mid term, it's not normal for the main opposition to lose them too

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This is Anna Soubry's Broxtowe
which was Conservative now NOC

Yes but the normal situation would be people flipping from the government to the opposition or other established parties, the situation currently (with people jumping ship from all of the main parties because of Brexit) is really unprecedented.

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The message is clear enough.
Sort out the brexit issue.

Labour has the problem of most of its voters don't want to leave the EU, nor its membership.
Corbyn does want to leave and the Party's MPs are split as the Nation is.

The Conservatives are at present a disastrous governing body, also like Labour trying to fit a square peg in a round hole as to brexit.

On the doorstep which I didn't do much of this time.
It was near impossible to please either side on the brexit issue.
Views are so strongly held.

These elections are bad for both main Parties.
If PR was in place for a general election, they would be in deep trouble.

What is surprising is in even leave constituencies, votes going to the Lib Dems and Greens, the 2 firmer remain Parties.

It's not a good set of results for UKIP either.

In a general election I'd say another hung Parliament is pretty sure to happen.

2 doors next to one another I went to.
I was told by one, if Labour supported a new vote on brexit, they'd support Labour wholeheartedly.

Next door, the view was if Labour supported a new brexit vote.
They'd never vote Labour again.

That is the problem for both the main Parties.
Even in local elections.

However, the Conservatives were in a high point last time, so losses,maybe not on the scale they will be, were expected totally.

The Lib Dems near wiped away in 2015, would recover so gains expected.
It may be surprising by how much they have given their stay in the EU stance.

For Labour, this is really not good.
Modest losses but on top of a poor time in 2015.

Is there an answer.
I don't know really.
Except neither of the 2 main Party leaders can unite the Nation in my view.
So back to the drawing board in my opinion.

"The message is clear enough.
Sort out the brexit issue."

For Sure Joey

Also UKIP never had enough
to start with.

Conservatives taking a punch, Labour taking a slap.... what we expected really. But I'm genuinely surprised that the anger with which the LibDems were met when they sold out and got into bed with the Tories has seemingly been forgotten now. People have very short memories. Anyhoo, half the votes haven't yet been counted... interesting times.

It's mystifying to me too how in just 4 years, the anger against the LibDems has eased.

A new good leader for both Parties could see them off again.
Sadly this is likely to inflame more the divisions on brexit as the Lib Dems claim this is a vote to explore remaining in the EU.

I'm really confused actually.
I can't get why with the Government and Labour while trying to find a consensus on leaving the EU, find support ebbing away from them, in leave voting areas, to the most strongest remain Party standing in those areas.

I've canvassed in a fair few elections, never have I found until now in local elections one issue only, namely brexit the thing raised on the doorstep.
Often angrily or with great hostility from both sides on it.

I heard alot of people saying this morning that they didn't have a choice in their area so voted for the Lib Dems rather than not voting at all

Labour needs to nail their flag to the mast of either Brexit or second referendum, the confusion about where they stand from numerous members of the party isn’t inspiring faith in anybody to vote for them either way

Yes the Leader
wants Brexit

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