Really? It seems to me like they’re losing vote share outside of London anyway. Backing leave doesn’t appear to be helping them.
But outside the capital it was the Conservatives' vote that increased the most - by eight points, compared with Labour's seven point rise.
regmcfly wrote:GooberTheHat wrote:I'd like to know voter turnout. I didn't even know there was local elections until I checked BBC this morning (none in my area).
I think BBC said 36%
Just to go back to this, Corbyn is the log jam for people on the right. The moderate Tories that opposed Brexit won't jump ship because Corbyn captains the other one. If some Blair / Cameron hybrid creature was in charge of one or other of the main two parties, that party would be in government now (not that I'm saying that's desirable).JonB wrote:monkey wrote:Everything's stuck. The Tories and Labour are both run by what were previously their ideological extremes. Both supporters of those extremes think they've got the majority of the public on their side. The politics of both parties are so far away from the moderate supporters of the other party that there's no chance of them switching, even though they aren't that happy with their party. A change of leadership from either side might break the logjam but not necessarily in that party's favour. We're a mess of a country.Think you got closer the second time. Brexit is the logjam. The Tories are lumbered with it and Labour are damned either way to an extent, so they’re just waiting for the Tories to implode. I do think Labour should be doing a bit more at the moment, but the uncertainty of Brexit is hanging over everything. The country is a mess in many ways, but the risk Cameron took in holding that referendum has properly fucked things for a good while. Running away from his own shitstorm as well – what an irredeemable cunt he was/is.monkey wrote:This polling shows that he should stay on his fence for as long as possible.
Diluted Dante wrote:Really? It seems to me like they’re losing vote share outside of London anyway. Backing leave doesn’t appear to be helping them.
This is 3 hours old now, but I don't think it's change too much:
But outside the capital it was the Conservatives' vote that increased the most - by eight points, compared with Labour's seven point rise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43976539
There are always the MOST amazing stats - if 50 people in 4 different seats had voted tory instead of their final choice in GE2017 the Tories would have had an overall majority https://twitter.com/josephmdurso/status/992396607927783424
Liveinadive wrote:Turnout figures are important in the councils trialing voter ID, unfortunately I have seen reports that polling station staff haven't been instructed to record how many are turned away. Some trial.
P'raps, although it is worth remembering the last local elections were even worse and then Labour did much better than expected in the GE. I wouldn't write him off yet.WorKid wrote:Looks to me like this is as good as it will get for Corbyn, if they actually want power he needs to consolidate what he's done so far and start picking off some of the centre-leaning Tories, doing some proper politics.
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