British Local Elections, May 2024

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Let us also not forget that the 2017 local elections took place before May choose to blow herself up. They were one of the many points of evidence at the time that calling an election had been the right decision politically. In raw percentage terms the results of that election were just as good for the Tories as 2021.

The county councils have perfectly dodged a bad Tory result. Since they were up in '97 with the general election the only real setback was in 2013, and even then it was just as much losses to UKIP as Labour. In 2017 they were up in the middle of the Theresa May honeymoon, 2021 was the peak of Boris's covid "success", paired with Hartlepool.
Would be extremely funny if when they come up in 2025 the Tories somehow cling onto the shires if Keir's honeymoon is extremely brief.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

"Pick the least serious candidate in this triptych"

[AustralianSwingVoter]

https://twitter.com/PoliticsMoments/status/1785963934786244779

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Broxborne has declared it's inevitable 9-1 Con-Lab result.

Whats up with Broxbourne? Is it just one council estate surrounded by rabid and unusually Brexity commuters?

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Based on Private Eye stories, would I be right in thinking Houchen’s appeal is basically that of an old fashioned Italian politician? He’s a crook but he’s a local who gets stuff done?

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Castle point is now a Tory free zone between the localist PIP (majority) and the Caveny Island Independence (wants their own council) group.

Canvey Island Independent Party v The People's Independent Party is the next realignment.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

I'm very confused about why the press are pretending it's a 'mixed seat of results' for the Conservatives.

They lost in Cumbria! and Aldershot! These places mean something to the former colonels who make up the party

But the PCC map is still pretty blue and if you have an agenda to push who cares about “different voting system” or “turnout”.
Also Ben Houchen is the BoJo of the North East imo tbh jao.
Also pretend Blackpool South didn’t happen because you’d never know it did from the tabloid coverage!

[AustralianSwingVoter]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1786708509825888425

[AustralianSwingVoter]

The funniest thing about Canvey Island parochialism is that the paranoia that underlies so much of it even has a rational justification: we have learned from the archives that until the completion of the Thames Barrier in 1982, the official plan for the nightmare combination of a Spring Tide and an extreme storm surge from the North Sea sufficiently bad to threaten central London was to inundate Canvey Island in order to save the City and Westminster.

Not to mention the enormous oil facilities built right next to housing. Hazardous Materials that aren’t supposed to be anywhere near settlements yet were approved by the Secretary of State “in the national interest”.