Reply to: Tories doing well at the local elections

[BA to the Stars]

More than 400 protesters gathered at City Hall to register their disgust at the election of a British National Party member to the London Assembly.

Richard Barnbrook became the far-Right party's highest profile politician when 130,000 people voted for him last week

Don't you love democracy - 400 register digust at what 130,000 voted for

[Nicky G]

Don't forget the BNP got Richard Barnbrook elected to the GLA in London due to the fact he got over 5% of the vote.

The left don't like it one bit.

[Bagpuss]

My county council was tory led before, but the government tried to gerrymander by merging several councils including mine into two, and it has spectacularly backfired!

[VectraMan]

My local council has gone from Tory landslide to a marginally larger Tory landslide.

Glad I didn't bother voting.

[Bagpuss]

The Tories have done really well in the North West. My newly created county council is a Tory Landslide

55 Con
13 Lab
4 Lib

[bogeyman]

New just in...

David Pitt-Watson resigns as Labour's General Secretary before he even gets his bum on the chair

[Ruprect]

From CIF on the gruaniad:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...or_gordon.html

Gordon Brown is not a leader. I truly believe that he is one of life's second-in-commands, who's got the top job and been found wanting. In all honesty, I think he knows it but is psychologically incapable of doing anything about it. And that's where the biggest danger for him lies, because I also believe that Labour MPs know he is incapable of turning it around.

[miffy]

If only people would vote the same way at the general election.....

Agreed.

People seem to get scatty during a real election.

[BoredBloke]

Wouldn't it be great if Labour came 3rd in the general election and the Lib Dems became the official opposition?

The Tories just need to not do anything stupid between now and the general election, and they'll win for sure. They must be secretly hoping Ken takes London as that'll do more harm to Labour and they won't have to worry about Boris messing things up.

It won't happen. Look at the stats on the beeb

Labour get 24% of the vote which gives them 1596 Councillors while the LibDems get 25% of the vote and get 1101 Councillors

[snaw]

Not that you'll be arsed to vote or anything.

God forbid we ever get confronted with a Boris/Ken/Elton John option at a general election ...

[threaded]

New Lie should get back in again, so they can turn the economy around.

[bogeyman]

I reckon Labour will get a spanking at a general election.

Not that you'll be arsed to vote or anything.

[Tensai]

I reckon Labour will get a spanking at a general election.

I'm beginning to believe we might see the first hang parliament for a long time. People may be slightly wary (IMHO) of defecting straight from NL to the Conservatives so the LibDems might benefit enough to stop any party getting an absolute majority.

I have absolutely no facts to back that up, so open to challenge.

[VectraMan]

So it looks like Labour will come in 3rd after the Tories and the Lib Dems.

Wouldn't it be great if Labour came 3rd in the general election and the Lib Dems became the official opposition?

The Tories just need to not do anything stupid between now and the general election, and they'll win for sure. They must be secretly hoping Ken takes London as that'll do more harm to Labour and they won't have to worry about Boris messing things up.

[snaw]

I reckon Labour will get a spanking at a general election.

From a purely personal viewpoint Cameron is the first ever tory leader I'd seriously consider voting for.

Still couldn't bring myself to vote Boris though. Or Ken. Had a debate last night with the missus, and as predicted couldn't be arsed. We went looking at houses instead ;-) great time to be looking, everyone is sh!tting themslevs and prices are tumbling. Am I mad?