The Tory's finally got something right

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  1. stairfoot.red

    stairfoot.red Well-Known Member

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    They said they'd lose a thousand plus seats and the political journos said they were overplaying their potential loses so when the loses were less than a thousand they'd not look so bad. But the Tory's kept to their word and completely tanked :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
     
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    When you start to see Labour Councillors on both Rutland and Melton Mowbray Councils, both previously had none, the Councils going to no overall control and the Torys getting tanked here, you start to think something might be in the offing.
     
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    A historic day for The Green Party, won outright control of their first ever council and are the biggest party in 10 others.
     
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    Yeah we did really well. Great night for us and the LibDems. Mediocre for Labour and terrible for the tories.
     
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    Let’s hope your analysis of Labour’s performance is wrong.
     
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    The only disappointment for me was that there was no Green candidate in my ward, 3 Tories and 3 Labour, not an inspiring choice.
     
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    it was ok. And it’s virtually impossible to extrapolate national results based on local ones.

    I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Labour fall short of a majority which is fine by me as Starmer is clearly untrustworthy. Coalition and then PR and then we can all vote for who we want to rather than red team blue team.
     
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    Yeah we were the same. Next time though.
     
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    Don’t forget there were no elections in London Birmingham or Wales all of which are more likely to vote Labour. Also a lot of tactical voting going on. Hard to call how it will affect a GE but as long as the Tories are not the biggest party I don’t care

    My borough WAVERLEY in Surrey had 50 seats
    Tories got 10 :) losing half their seats No overall control but the Lid Dems and Ratepayers have a comfortable majority when added together

    Just hope we get a Lib Dem MP next year instead of Hunt. (Labour have no chance here)
     
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    Not an hard choice then .
     
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