D-Day May 7th Local Elections

[georgenorman]

Going to be very interesting.

Need a tasty by-election win to really get them on the front pages.

Or a beer hall putsch perhaps?

 

[chris123]

Or a beer hall putsch perhaps?

Burnham

 

[beak]

Or a beer hall putsch perhaps?

Danny Thommo as Ernst Rohm and Farage as the Fuerher and the night of the long knives.

 

[georgenorman]

Danny Thommo as Ernst Rohm and Farage as the Fuerher and the night of the long knives.

And Keir Starmer as Eva Braun.

 

[Willo]

Experts asserted that Conservatives would struggle against Labour in London.We regained Westminster, we held Kensington and Chelsea and we now control Wandsworth. Jason Perry has been re-elected as Mayor of Croydon.
Furthermore we held Bexley, Bromley, Hillingdon, Harlow, and Fareham comfortably.

It was asserted we’d never make gains in the north of England,however we won seats on Trafford Council in Greater Manchester, in North Tyneside, and we held our seats in Leeds.
As predicted it proved to be a challenging night for us, however in places where Conservatives have struggled in recent years, we started to make progress.
Of course not every campaign delivered the result we wanted and my thoughts are with the dedicated and hard-working councillors who will no longer be carrying out their duties.
For the record, my ward returned a Conservative councillor !

 

[Teddy Eagle]

The Greens mainly succeeded in areas with lots of students as might have been expected but the Lib Dems are currently + 151. Protest votes or genuine centrist sentiment?

 

[chris123]

Experts asserted that Conservatives would struggle against Labour in London.We regained Westminster, we held Kensington and Chelsea and we now control Wandsworth. Jason Perry has been re-elected as Mayor of Croydon.
Furthermore we held Bexley, Bromley, Hillingdon, Harlow, and Fareham comfortably.

It was asserted we’d never make gains in the north of England,however we won seats on Trafford Council in Greater Manchester, in North Tyneside, and we held our seats in Leeds.
As predicted it proved to be a challenging night for us, however in places where Conservatives have struggled in recent years, we started to make progress.
Of course not every campaign delivered the result we wanted and my thoughts are with the dedicated and hard-working councillors who will no longer be carrying out their duties.
For the record, my ward returned a Conservative councillor !

Any Reform candidates in the Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Wandsworth council elections ?

 

[georgenorman]

Experts asserted that Conservatives would struggle against Labour in London.We regained Westminster, we held Kensington and Chelsea and we now control Wandsworth. Jason Perry has been re-elected as Mayor of Croydon.
Furthermore we held Bexley, Bromley, Hillingdon, Harlow, and Fareham comfortably.

It was asserted we’d never make gains in the north of England,however we won seats on Trafford Council in Greater Manchester, in North Tyneside, and we held our seats in Leeds.
As predicted it proved to be a challenging night for us, however in places where Conservatives have struggled in recent years, we started to make progress.
Of course not every campaign delivered the result we wanted and my thoughts are with the dedicated and hard-working councillors who will no longer be carrying out their duties.
For the record, my ward returned a Conservative councillor !

It is remarkable that you are so optimistic about the Conservative party and so pessimistic about everything else.

 

[Willo]

Any Reform candidates in the Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Wandsworth council elections ?

I do know there was Reform representation in Westminster and Wandsworth, I cannot vouch for Kensington & Chelsea.
In any event, it was predicted that Conservatives would struggle in these areas and we confounded the experts.

 

[Willo]

It is remarkable that you are so optimistic about the Conservative party and so pessimistic about everything else.

I am not a 'universal' doomsayer, such emotions are largely confined to our team, influenced by several years of 'Thin' interspersed with a modicum of 'Thick' !

 

[beak]

I don't want to spoil the party but look at who runs most councils and then the second biggest and it predicts a Lab-Lib pact and the cost that the Liberals want will be unfettered immigration best to mention it now as the next event will be the G.E.

 

[Willo]

I don't want to spoil the party but look at who runs most councils and then the second biggest and it predicts a Lab-Lib pact and the cost that the Liberals want will be unfettered immigration best to mention it now as the next event will be the G.E.

 

[beak]

I realise it would be a pact and at a G.E. people forget about protest they concentrate on income and expenditure. Never has council election voting carried over to a G.E.

 

[Willo]

I realise it would be a pact and at a G.E. people forget about protest they concentrate on income and expenditure. Never has council election voting carried over to a G.E.

The erudite and charming Jacob Rees-Mogg has long advocated an electoral pact between Conservatives and Reform.

 

[eaglesdare]

The erudite and charming Jacob Rees-Mogg has long advocated an electoral pact between Conservatives and Reform.

That's my fear that reform will just become tories 2.0 and farage gets ousted as pm after two years.

 

[Willo]

That's my fear that reform will just become tories 2.0 and farage gets ousted as pm after two years.

On the campaign trail some charming gentleman said to me that akin to two starlets arriving at the same event in identical outfits, the Conservatives and Reform face the embarrassment of fighting the next General Election on indistinguishable manifestos.

 

[chris123]

The erudite and charming Jacob Rees-Mogg has long advocated an electoral pact between Conservatives and Reform.

In the genes possibly?

 

[Willo]

In the genes possibly?

I have had the pleasure and honour of being in the estimable Jacob's company on several occasions, he is an urbane gentleman, the very portrait of suave aplomb and a pillar of moral and linguistic rectitude.

 

[beak]

On the campaign trail some charming gentleman said to me that akin to two starlets arriving at the same event in identical outfits, the Conservatives and Reform face the embarrassment of fighting the next General Election on indistinguishable manifestos.

He was elephants trunk.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

In the genes possibly?

He wouldn't wear those surely? If he did they'd be 100 years old and hand made on a loom.