Local Elections 2019 10:16 - May 3 with 11905 views | Lord_Bony | The two big parties taking a hammering. Lib Dem’s gain. People are frustrated over Brexit. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 10:26 - May 3 with 2907 views | Highjack | The +229 seat surge for independents is rather telling too. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 10:45 - May 3 with 2890 views | bluey_the_blue | It's traditional protest vote time again. Seems Lib Dems have finally shaken off coalition stigma so people protesting by voting for them. Expected a big loss for Tories so no surprise but it's concerning for Labour they've not made major gains you'd expect the main opposition to mid term against an unpopular government. Lib Dems will claim it's about Remain / second referendum, Curtice stated gains have been in both Remain and LEave areas so that can be discounted. | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 10:55 - May 3 with 2880 views | Highjack | I like that polling bloke who looks like a mad scientist that they only wheel out on election nights. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 11:02 - May 3 with 2873 views | Batterseajack | All Brexit supporting / facilitating parties took a hit yesterday. Analyse that.
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Local Elections 2019 on 11:14 - May 3 with 2860 views | Highjack |
Local Elections 2019 on 11:02 - May 3 by Batterseajack | All Brexit supporting / facilitating parties took a hit yesterday. Analyse that.
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It’s probably because they’ve made a complete and total cock up of supporting/facilitating it. Labour are definitely remain too, even if their leadership isn’t. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 11:20 - May 3 with 2850 views | bluey_the_blue |
Local Elections 2019 on 11:02 - May 3 by Batterseajack | All Brexit supporting / facilitating parties took a hit yesterday. Analyse that.
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Labour, Tories took a hit in both Remain and Leave areas. UKIP are a busted flush. Independents could be Remain or Leave. | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 11:28 - May 3 with 2848 views | Lohengrin | Once again the main take from yesterday was voter turnout. Analysing results this morning is a bit like talking about a race where seven of the ten runners couldn’t be bothered to come out of the stalls. It reminds me too of the wife telling me about her friend in work breaking off her engagement: “He had been promising her the world for years but she knew he’d been carrying on. She had enough of all the lies in the end and left him.” As a metaphor for the state of Britain’s polity that’s bang on the money. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 12:06 - May 3 with 2819 views | londonlisa2001 |
Local Elections 2019 on 10:45 - May 3 by bluey_the_blue | It's traditional protest vote time again. Seems Lib Dems have finally shaken off coalition stigma so people protesting by voting for them. Expected a big loss for Tories so no surprise but it's concerning for Labour they've not made major gains you'd expect the main opposition to mid term against an unpopular government. Lib Dems will claim it's about Remain / second referendum, Curtice stated gains have been in both Remain and LEave areas so that can be discounted. |
Your last point is nonsense. There has undoubtedly been a swing to the most ardent remain supporting parties. Whether it is anything other than a one off, who knows, but a swing it is. The fact it’s in both former remain and leave areas just says the swing towards remain parties happened everywhere yesterday. Quite how pro Brexit politicians and commentators can come up with some of the crap they have is astonishing. The Labour bloke in Sunderland said that his leave supporters were fed up at Labour’s ambivalence because they want Brexit and they want it now. They apparently registered that by voting for “LibDems : Stop Brexit”. The BBC then went on and on about it being indicative of wanting Brexit NOW without ever pointing out the ridiculousness of what was being said. If UKIP had made big gains across the country, in former remain and leave areas, I can guarantee you would have said it was about Brexit. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Local Elections 2019 on 12:08 - May 3 with 2817 views | londonlisa2001 |
Local Elections 2019 on 11:28 - May 3 by Lohengrin | Once again the main take from yesterday was voter turnout. Analysing results this morning is a bit like talking about a race where seven of the ten runners couldn’t be bothered to come out of the stalls. It reminds me too of the wife telling me about her friend in work breaking off her engagement: “He had been promising her the world for years but she knew he’d been carrying on. She had enough of all the lies in the end and left him.” As a metaphor for the state of Britain’s polity that’s bang on the money. |
Voter turnout was on par with every other local election according to the reports last night? | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:27 - May 3 with 2794 views | Lohengrin |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:08 - May 3 by londonlisa2001 | Voter turnout was on par with every other local election according to the reports last night? |
Around the 30% mark. When I went to bed last night The Gruniad was busy bemoaning the stats. It has to raise questions as to the legitimacy of the whole business, doesn’t it? By the way you’ve been arguing with pigeons on the Swansea Council thread, If you haven’t seen it. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 12:45 - May 3 with 2774 views | Highjack |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:06 - May 3 by londonlisa2001 | Your last point is nonsense. There has undoubtedly been a swing to the most ardent remain supporting parties. Whether it is anything other than a one off, who knows, but a swing it is. The fact it’s in both former remain and leave areas just says the swing towards remain parties happened everywhere yesterday. Quite how pro Brexit politicians and commentators can come up with some of the crap they have is astonishing. The Labour bloke in Sunderland said that his leave supporters were fed up at Labour’s ambivalence because they want Brexit and they want it now. They apparently registered that by voting for “LibDems : Stop Brexit”. The BBC then went on and on about it being indicative of wanting Brexit NOW without ever pointing out the ridiculousness of what was being said. If UKIP had made big gains across the country, in former remain and leave areas, I can guarantee you would have said it was about Brexit. |
There’s also a massive swing towards independents and we don’t know their stance on brexit. But a surge like that seems to me to be an utter rejection of party politics for a percentage of the electorate we haven’t seen before. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 12:52 - May 3 with 2758 views | londonlisa2001 |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:45 - May 3 by Highjack | There’s also a massive swing towards independents and we don’t know their stance on brexit. But a surge like that seems to me to be an utter rejection of party politics for a percentage of the electorate we haven’t seen before. |
Some will be Brexit, some remain and some have nothing to do with Brexit but have a particular local issue that is being addressed I imagine. Normally to do with planning or a hospital or similar. The local elections aren’t a great indication of anything too much at all I wouldn’t imagine, but the take away of ‘people are saying get on with brexit’ being spouted by the likes of the BBC is the one take away you couldn’t possibly make with the results the way they are. | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:55 - May 3 with 2753 views | Lohengrin |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:52 - May 3 by londonlisa2001 | Some will be Brexit, some remain and some have nothing to do with Brexit but have a particular local issue that is being addressed I imagine. Normally to do with planning or a hospital or similar. The local elections aren’t a great indication of anything too much at all I wouldn’t imagine, but the take away of ‘people are saying get on with brexit’ being spouted by the likes of the BBC is the one take away you couldn’t possibly make with the results the way they are. |
The BBC or Ian Lavery? | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 12:59 - May 3 with 2748 views | WxmJax |
Local Elections 2019 on 10:26 - May 3 by Highjack | The +229 seat surge for independents is rather telling too. |
Independent councillors are usually tory biased when it comes to voting. Wrexham has two independent groups on its council. How can you stand as an independent and then the first thing you do is join a group ? | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 13:03 - May 3 with 2747 views | londonlisa2001 |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:55 - May 3 by Lohengrin | The BBC or Ian Lavery? |
Laura Kuenssberg was saying it last night when I was watching the coverage. Although it was hard to concentrate on what she was saying as I was busy laughing at Barry Gardiner who was desperately trying to explain how Labour’s current position was clarity itself. I avoid Ian Lavery wherever possible. He’s a step too far on the idiocy scale. | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 13:03 - May 3 with 2745 views | costalotta |
Local Elections 2019 on 12:52 - May 3 by londonlisa2001 | Some will be Brexit, some remain and some have nothing to do with Brexit but have a particular local issue that is being addressed I imagine. Normally to do with planning or a hospital or similar. The local elections aren’t a great indication of anything too much at all I wouldn’t imagine, but the take away of ‘people are saying get on with brexit’ being spouted by the likes of the BBC is the one take away you couldn’t possibly make with the results the way they are. |
LBC, Theo saying the opposite of the BBC, the take away is a sign of gathering around more of a remain stance. Was just in a supermarket grabbing sarnie and seen a colleague and we just swapped words about the results from last night and joked around whilst agreeing of the importance of of the upcoming EU elections. A gentlemen also in the queue added that everyone should be voting for Brexit parties. A couple of people overheard and to a man all shouted out things like, not a chance, no way, absolutely not etc. This fella went bananas and got quite red in the face and angry... in particular he was in the face of this older lady and then had to be calmed down by the staff, It was a bit mad few minutes. What’s happened to this country it’s a mess and Brexit or not, it will be generation before this is fixed. | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 13:13 - May 3 with 2731 views | dickythorpe |
Local Elections 2019 on 10:55 - May 3 by Highjack | I like that polling bloke who looks like a mad scientist that they only wheel out on election nights. |
That's my father!!! | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 13:14 - May 3 with 2730 views | Lohengrin |
Local Elections 2019 on 13:03 - May 3 by londonlisa2001 | Laura Kuenssberg was saying it last night when I was watching the coverage. Although it was hard to concentrate on what she was saying as I was busy laughing at Barry Gardiner who was desperately trying to explain how Labour’s current position was clarity itself. I avoid Ian Lavery wherever possible. He’s a step too far on the idiocy scale. |
Just heard an amusing analogy on the Beeb likening May and Corbyn to two startled rabbits sat in the middle of the road as the headlights of the European Elections come hurtling toward them. That’s just a few weeks away now. I expect a much clearer sense of where we are to emerge from that as it’s shaping up to be a second referendum in all but name. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 13:15 - May 3 with 2729 views | Lord_Bony | What people are stockpiling in preparation for a bad Brexit Tea bags Toilet roll toilet paper Rice Cereal Pasta Tinned beans canned beans Tinned soup Tinned rice pudding Tinned chopped tomatoes Tinned sweetcorn Tinned peaches Coffee Lentils Sugar Bread flour Dried yeast Instant bread mix Tinned tuna Tinned mushy peas Jars of hot dogs Pasta sauce Porridge Squash Long-life milk Dishwasher liquid https://qz.com/1558100/inside-the-minds-of-the-uks-most-stressed-out-brexit-pepp | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 14:05 - May 3 with 2666 views | Batterseajack |
Local Elections 2019 on 13:15 - May 3 by Lord_Bony | What people are stockpiling in preparation for a bad Brexit Tea bags Toilet roll toilet paper Rice Cereal Pasta Tinned beans canned beans Tinned soup Tinned rice pudding Tinned chopped tomatoes Tinned sweetcorn Tinned peaches Coffee Lentils Sugar Bread flour Dried yeast Instant bread mix Tinned tuna Tinned mushy peas Jars of hot dogs Pasta sauce Porridge Squash Long-life milk Dishwasher liquid https://qz.com/1558100/inside-the-minds-of-the-uks-most-stressed-out-brexit-pepp |
Surely the brexit doomsday clock is moving further and father anti-clockwise each day. We shouldn't get too complacent, but i can't see a no deal brexit happening, unless by the most unfortunate of accidents. | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 14:08 - May 3 with 2663 views | Highjack |
Local Elections 2019 on 14:05 - May 3 by Batterseajack | Surely the brexit doomsday clock is moving further and father anti-clockwise each day. We shouldn't get too complacent, but i can't see a no deal brexit happening, unless by the most unfortunate of accidents. |
Do you honestly think we’d run out of tea bags even if it did happen? | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 14:09 - May 3 with 2661 views | Batterseajack |
Local Elections 2019 on 14:08 - May 3 by Highjack | Do you honestly think we’d run out of tea bags even if it did happen? |
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Local Elections 2019 on 14:12 - May 3 with 2660 views | Highjack |
Phew. That’s alright then. But there are obviously a lot of crazy people out there who do. Might buy some shares in PG tips. | |
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Local Elections 2019 on 14:33 - May 3 with 2642 views | Batterseajack |
Local Elections 2019 on 14:12 - May 3 by Highjack | Phew. That’s alright then. But there are obviously a lot of crazy people out there who do. Might buy some shares in PG tips. |
Do you think we'll get a no deal Brexit? | | | |
Local Elections 2019 on 14:35 - May 3 with 2636 views | Highjack |
Local Elections 2019 on 14:33 - May 3 by Batterseajack | Do you think we'll get a no deal Brexit? |
No | |
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