As I predicted, the idea of Susan Hall winning disintegrated on contact with the electorate.

Manchester and West Yorkshire Mayors both re-elected for Labour, both improving their shares.

Edit: sorry Burnham did actually lose 3.9% of vote share. Con lost 9% though and Burnham was wayyyyy out in front of everyone.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I love how all the manufactured moaning about Burnham online was laid bare as bollocks with that result.

Yeah, there seems to be a pattern there.

Khan wins.
Good. I never bought this nonsense about Hall potentially winning but I'm glad to see her kicked to the curb none the less. A grotesque campaign and candidate even by Tory standards.

Skidmore made a similar point, these anti green candidates are losing to the pro green (not the rapper) ones.

Lol he got nearly three times as many votes as her.

Interesting that the West Midlands result is so tight when Street didn't use Tory branding, nor campaigned as a far right bigot.

Much like the Teeside Mayor, any success seems to be in spite of being Blue.

acemuzzy wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Lol he got nearly three times as many votes as her.

I thought it was 33/44?

Ah derp the stat I saw was just one constituency or whatever they're called

I think I made the same mistake earlier. The beebs coverage wasn't the clearest.

It was the Tories asking for the recount in Cov so felt a bit Trumpian.

Street's reign of terror is over then. I've got no idea whether he was a good or bad mayor. I don't really know what it is they do. Some sort of glorified cheerleader for the region. The Labour guy is bringing the buses back into public ownership and saying he'll accelerate net zero plans. Fuck knows. All I know is Rishi Sunak won't get his little moment gloating next to the winner so that's probably good.

I can't see how Sunak is going to be able to spend 6 months talking bollocks about "will of the people" and "stick to the plan" after this. It was ridiculous before but now it's going to look like pure insanity.
The lunatic fringe will want him to go further Right but these results have shown that's not what people want, every other party seems to have made gains other than Reform.

There needs to be a blood letting but who?
If he culls the Right wing nutters from Government jobs they'll put in letters.
The Chairman has only been in for 6 months, the Deputy PM 1 month.
Plus any blood letting this close to an election shows a lack of confidence in his own people.
The talent pool has been drained several times since 2019.

A rebrand? He's already had several as have the party.

Yeah just call a GE and put everyone out of their misery.

Houchen was the only Tory Mayor to win.

Cunt Swamp.

I wouldn’t vote for the guy personally but he’s the type of MP the conservatives need. Humbly accepted defeat and took it all on his own shoulders.

He's a tiny little goblin. Tried finding a good shot of him with Sunak but cant find a full length photo. This seems accurate though, he's not stood off a curb or anything.

 

I did watch his speech though and he was gracious in defeat. Its a way of being that we need to get back to in politics regardless of what party they represent (or pretend not to represent).