Reply to: How much of a spanking will the parties get?

[darmstadt]

[WTFH]

nobody else had a good day

By "Nobody Else" do you just mean UKIP and Labour?

[jamesbrown]

The Tories lost over 2000 seats in a council election in 1995.

But the present debacle is a mere skirmish compared with the Tory wipeout we can expect when the balloon goes up in a couple of weeks with the EU elections!

Oh right, Major, yeah.

[OwlHoot]

Biggest loss of seats that I can remember, at least in recent times. I think Blair lost a similar number in the early days.

The Tories lost over 2000 seats in a council election in 1995.

But the present debacle is a mere skirmish compared with the Tory wipeout we can expect when the balloon goes up in a couple of weeks with the EU elections!

[Mordac]

Local elections for some today, your predictions please:

I'll start with the following:

Tories lose 950 Councillors, 45-55 councils, and nobody really gains much.

Lost 1269 seats, lost 43 councils, and nobody else had a good day. I should be on telly...

[jamesbrown]

Oh. Crikey. -1240 and still a few more to count.

Biggest loss of seats that I can remember, at least in recent times. I think Blair lost a similar number in the early days.

[meridian]

It's way over that already.

Oh. Crikey. -1240 and still a few more to count.

[jamesbrown]

Getting close to your first one.

It's way over that already.

[meridian]

Local elections for some today, your predictions please:

I'll start with the following:

Tories lose 950 Councillors, 45-55 councils, and nobody really gains much.

Getting close to your first one.

[saptastic]

Tony Robinson on Twitter: "I’ve left the Labour Party after nearly 45 years of service at Branch, Constituency and NEC levels,partly because of it’s continued duplicity on Brexit, partly because of it’s antisemitism, but also because its leadership is complete tulip."

Even Baldrick has realised what we all already know about the Labour leadership.

[scooterscot]

The Guardian newspaper is having a field day.

[Uncle Albert]

Even Baldrick has had enough of Corbyn

Tony Robinson on Twitter: "I’ve left the Labour Party after nearly 45 years of service at Branch, Constituency and NEC levels,partly because of it’s continued duplicity on Brexit, partly because of it’s antisemitism, but also because its leadership is complete tulip."

I’ve left the Labour Party after nearly 45 years of service at Branch, Constituency and NEC levels,partly because of it’s continued duplicity on Brexit, partly because of it’s antisemitism, but also because its leadership is complete tulip.

[Platypus]

Yeah, cause the first thing people do for a protest vote is to vote for the party that explicitly states that they’re going to stop the thing you’re voting for....

Voters are smart enough to know that the LDs will never make any difference at national level

[WTFH]

In the past two weeks I’ve only seen the Greens on my doorstep (3 times). If it was “local issues”, why weren’t the Tories and Labour on our doorsteps telling us how great they’ve been locally?

The only candidate who knocked on our door was the LibDem one. Two days after knocking on the door, they also put a letter through, addressed to The Wife (tm) thanking her for talking.
The local Tory candidate was relying on meeting anyone who would vote for them in a particular drinking establishment and didn't put any other effort in. Even his campaign leaflet was a laugh - it talked about family values, and gave his marital home address. Except he moved out of there over a year ago and is shacked up about 5 miles away with his latest squeeze.

[meridian]

How much of a spanking will the parties get?

Lib Dems locally saying they avoided talking about the B word on the doorstep as it's a toxic issue, they focussed entirely on local issues.

Lib Dems on R4 this morning hailing a sea-change in British politics entirely down to their "Stop " stance, grudgingly admitting that local issues might have had some marginal influence in some areas, and saying that this time the swing to LD is real, absolutely not down to protest votes.

What utter deluded fools! [emoji3]

Yeah, cause the first thing people do for a protest vote is to vote for the party that explicitly states that they’re going to stop the thing you’re voting for....

In the past two weeks I’ve only seen the Greens on my doorstep (3 times). If it was “local issues”, why weren’t the Tories and Labour on our doorsteps telling us how great they’ve been locally?