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Local Election Results 2018

How do you predict the local election results look?

  • Big swing to Labour

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Small swing to Labour

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • Swing to Lib Dems from Conservatives

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • Swing to Greens/other from Conservatives

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Conservatives to hold or see minor losses

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I couldn't give a monkeys

    Votes: 4 66.7%
  • Total voters
    6
  • Poll closed .
MikeG said:
I haven't seen any of that. Seriously. All I see the media doing with Ukip is setting them up to make themselves look foolish (which isn't hard).
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Eve in that context, it's giving them too much print space/screen time.

In related news, Mrs Analyst came sixth as a (paper) candidate for the Greens, but at least beat all the Tory candidates in the ward.
 
MikeG said:
I'm getting tired of baseless smears like this. The Don trotted out crap like this (see my signature). It's unworthy.
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She is directly responsible for setting the tone of the ****** tory policy

Nasty party indeed.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
She is directly responsible for setting the tone of the ****** tory policy

Nasty party indeed.
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Which says nothing whatever about your direct claim of seeking to deport people based on their skin colour. You made that claim. You haven't backed it up.
 
To sum up, Labour and Conservative ended up pretty much neck and neck with 35% of the vote each. The Lib Dems gained to finish at 16% and the Greens were six seats up. UKIP have only two left (losing about 123).

This hides the fact that Labour gains were much higher than the Conservatives who lost several councils.

All the UKIP votes appear to have gone to the Conservatives. Their big issue was Brexit and immigration, so perhaps the UKIP voters perceive the Tories to be more likely to deliver than pro-Brexit Labour. The pro-Leave party, the Lib-Dems aren't likely to be much a force in the near future. The UKIP-pers, probably, were very keen on Theresa May's repatriation programme.

We have a divided country, with a weak Prime Minister who gets pushed around by DUP, and a Labour party that can't shake off the anti-Semitism row.
 
Labour also support Brexit. They didn't gain any votes from those opposed to it.
 
Vixen said:
Maybe that's where they go wrong, as most of their supporters are Remainers.
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Or maybe that’s where their supporters are going wrong? Stop supporting those who want the opposite of you.
 
Ha, Pendle council was no overall control. So a former Tory Councillor who had been suspended for tweeting a racist tweet, and had since sat as an independent, has now rejoined them. So now they have a one-seat majority.

Clever. Sneaky, a bit skeevy... but clever.
 
Vixen said:
Did the Windrush scandal pass you by?
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No, certainly not in the way that facts and logic appear to have passed you by on this subject. For a start, the government haven't tried to deport Windrush folk.....they (just) set up a scheme to deport illegal immigrants without thinking through all of the consequences. Secondly, they've also deported a whole lot of white people. If you're going to jump in to support someone making baseless accusations of racism, maybe next time think it through a little first.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
She is directly responsible for setting the tone of the ****** tory policy

Nasty party indeed.
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Which might be true, but does not answer the charge that there have been some pretty ugly statements from the more extreme elements of Labor vis a vis Israel.
 
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