2022 United Kingdom local elections thread
 

Local elections in the United Kingdom will be held on 5 May 2022. These will
include elections for all London borough councils, and for all local authorities in
Wales and Scotland. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2018 and
in Scotland and Wales in 2017. The elections will coincide with the 2022
Northern Ireland Assembly election.


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The Tories will be trounced

SNP chap was just at my door with a leaflet asking if I will vote SNP and I said no. and then shut the door.

It says "only the SNP can beat the (sic) Tories"

not even the decency to call them Conservatives, low blow street talk

no thanks

Really wouldn’t be so confident about that, the level of people who are still either brainwashed or completely ignorant is ridiculous

such a low opinion of fellow humans

wow

Unless Labour get a replacement for Starmer…they don’t stand a chance. With what is going on in the world sadly increases in everything is unavoidable…

Could also be a Massive Conservative
drop in voting on Thursday 5/May/22

The Greens and Lib dems will do well.

The Greens might get the backlash from Boris's wifes crazy green costly agenda

Pretty much this

it would be beyond extraordinary if the tories didnt get thumped in the local elections. Everyone is expecting heavy losses

it certainly would, I think people might even vote Labour even though they dont want to just to send a message

Partygate will not be forgotton by many, no matter how much they try to swerve it and their sheer lack of any help with energy bills and the hike in NI is too recent for it not to be an impact, I just hope people go out and vote these elections generally have a low turn out

Food and to an extent fuel at the pumps yes. The energy bills situation is 100% avoidable. Increases are inevitable but the current situation should have been nipped in the bud before it became a realistic possibility. Other countries have done so. Our government simply chose not to, and to offer scraps of compensation instead.

I d imagine a lot will think

they are all rubbish
and not vote

As far as i know, Locals are sort of treated like a "weather vane" for how the current government is doing?

I know the upcoming Locals aren't for MPs, but I'm turned off both of these parties because I know both of the MP candidates personally, and for various reasons I wouldn't either as my representation in the House of Commons :joker:

As parties, I can't trust the Greens to actually be green, as (last time I looked anyway) they support biomass fuels (the felling and burning of trees) over nuclear, and the LibDems keep on whinging about the EU. Whether or not leaving was a bad idea, it's done and there's plenty more to focus on.

I'll probably just defaulty vote Labour, but it's annoying because I'd roughly and offhandly call myself "liberal", and environmental issues are my real bugbear :joker:

Yes Oliver
I will break it down


"over nuclear"
Yes greens up the wall in confusion


LibDems
want to rejoin the EU

Labour
Confused Totally on what a woman is.


NewsnightHD BBC2 last night
showed a terrible LBC Clip of Starmer
struggling, not able to say yes or no,
to a simple question.

arista, you forgot to mention the conservatives, a bunch of corrupt, lying twats

A Conservative Party Political Broadcast
was on ITV1HD just Now
had No Leader at all.

Just a load of Conservative Voters
going through all the savings and numbers

On AGAIN 6:54pm bbc1 and on BBC1HD

England Only

that would be a mistake in my view, the only way to hurt them at the moment is at the ballot box

Scotland letting 16 year olds votes
help her SNP vote go up


BBCnews in Scotland today

its predominately elections in Scotland and Wales where they hate the tories anyway. There are no local elections in my area

I had the tory candidate on my drive the other day as I got in the car.. he looked about 16! I didn't have the heart to have a go at him so I just said 'I don't think so' and gave him his leaflet back. :joker: