Greens have over 700 councillors.subsub wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 2:15 pmIndeed, Vespa. The Greens have 160 councillors across the country; Reform have the grand total of two.Vespa wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 10:40 am The Greens had a good local elections run, nice to see more Green councillors. I would like to see the Greens professionalise there messaging. That said given the Greens are one of the largest parties in government you hardly seen them on political programmes compared to reform.
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I think that people often vote differently in local as opposed to GE as they vote on issues on home ground, and a green on the council can often make a difference to the approach taken on some issues, but when it comes to GE I think a green vote is wasted, after all, if you look at how many votes the green candidate gets there's so chance they would ever get voted in as an MP.
If the London Borough of Barnet isn't in London where is it?
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The interesting comparison will be to see how many voted for him as 1st preference last time and the number who voted for him this time.
If the London Borough of Barnet isn't in London where is it?
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My apologies, Vespa.Vespa wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 2:38 pmGreens have over 700 councillors.subsub wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 2:15 pmIndeed, Vespa. The Greens have 160 councillors across the country; Reform have the grand total of two.Vespa wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 10:40 am The Greens had a good local elections run, nice to see more Green councillors. I would like to see the Greens professionalise there messaging. That said given the Greens are one of the largest parties in government you hardly seen them on political programmes compared to reform.
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It looks like Khan is going to win the London election. I always thought he was beatable or at least at risk of a close race. Makes me wonder if either the Tories just have awful candidates or that the members, who elected Truss, are just incredibly poor at finding winners.
I lament the Tories, a party that once had a hoard of reasonable MPs who've been driven away by the headbangers and we've now left with the loony wing. Reminds me of Labour under Corbyn.
I don't think a Tory could win London given the polls but Susan Hall was so awful her social media advertising didn't even name the
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I lament the Tories, a party that once had a hoard of reasonable MPs who've been driven away by the headbangers and we've now left with the loony wing. Reminds me of Labour under Corbyn.
I don't think a Tory could win London given the polls but Susan Hall was so awful her social media advertising didn't even name the
Tory party.
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Andy Burnham gets more votes than everyone else combined.
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I have no doubt in my mind that Labour will continue the Tories' disastrous legacy. Nothing will change. Ineffective policing, uncontrolled immigration, a bloated and sluggish public sector, high taxation. It's all downhill from here.
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Khan wins by the largest margin he's had over then last two Tories who stood against him.
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Governing is hard. Since Boris the Tories have taken the approach of blaming numerous groups for any problems rather than simply saying it difficult, here are the issues and possible solutions. Which is why they now look awful. I'd hope any possible Labour government would be far more honest, even if they have the same problems.
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Andy Street looks like he may be in trouble, I have some sympathy for him.
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Whatever Khan's merits he was always going to beat Hall, the most obnoxious candidate even the Tories could find. And despite their gutter-level campaigning.Vespa wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 3:11 pm It looks like Khan is going to win the London election. I always thought he was beatable or at least at risk of a close race. Makes me wonder if either the Tories just have awful candidates or that the members, who elected Truss, are just incredibly poor at finding winners.
I lament the Tories, a party that once had a hoard of reasonable MPs who've been driven away by the headbangers and we've now left with the loony wing. Reminds me of Labour under Corbyn.
I don't think a Tory could win London given the polls but Susan Hall was so awful her social media advertising didn't even name the
Tory party.
And we hear Tories now telling us the reason they have been hammered is that they aren't Tory enough. Go right ahead; draw the wrong conclusions...please.
As for Houchen....£3bn of our money has gone into the corrupt Teeside free port development , a good chunk of which has winged its way back to the Tory star - the one who "forgot" his blue rosette at the count declaration. I greatly look forward to the explosion there is going to be about what a massive con that whole project is , how it has enriched local business people who took no risk , and how Gove has tried to cover it up.
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Bollocks.
2016 margin 315,529 56.8%
2021 margin 228,433 55.2% so down on 2016
2024 margin 275,828 so up on 2021 43.8% NOT the biggest margin over the last two.
If the London Borough of Barnet isn't in London where is it?
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The Andy Street vote is quite exciting.
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65% of the votes. Pity is that only 26.6% of voters bothered. Still he's popular with 17% of the electorate most of whom are totally apathetic.
And his mate, the mayor of Salford did the same. His mate Dennett [the one who still lives in a counci flat, got 61.5% of the same turnout.
The council seats are yet to be counted but the same will apply with the usual suapects getting in.