2023 UK Local Elections

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The differences between the continuity Liberals and continuity SDP twitter pages are interesting. Continuity SDP is full of posts like "the only party willing to call out black on black crime" whereas the continuity Liberals had a recent post on warning signs of a stroke.

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It has been noted that two people kicked out of Labour for AS got elected for other parties - for the Greens in Wirral and the Tories in Stockton.

Or the charges were trumped up enough to be obvious to voters? Now that Corbyn is gone we no longer need to pussyfoot about the real target of that campaign.

The Stockton councillor shared an article claiming that ISIS was secretly allied with Israel, shared an InfoWars link claiming the leader of ISIS was an Israeli agent, and seems thoroughly obsessed with ‘zionists’.

Thankfully the Wirral one, Jo Bird, was far less of a piece of work than the Stockton one. She just got kicked out for being a member of a proscribed political organization outside Labour rather than racism and fake news. And she seemingly was locally popular: The New Stateman visited Wirral two weeks before the vote and nobody they talked to reported anything negative. They additionally described her ward as being 'covered' in green signs when they drove through, something that actually means something when the contest is low-turnout and not national in scope.

She also is jewish, fwiw.