English local elections, May 2014

[MaxQue]

Rotherham is a complete fiasco catastrophe disaster horror story and hopefully there will be An Intervention now in a big way.

The results, the authority or the local Labour branches?

[MaxQue]

Hammersmith and Fulham is a Labour gain, 26-20 over Conservatives.

[MaxQue]

After taking nearly twelve hours, Havering remains NOC.

Tories 22, Residents 19, UKIP 7, Independent Residents Group 6 and... Labour 1. Labour lost 4 seats and the Lib Dems their sole one remaining.

Wow what crazy schism resulted in the Residents splitting in two?

So it seems Labour's "cost of living crisis" is a great message for Londoners and the big metropolitan cities (of all income bands); less so for working-class provincial towns with other issues. Is that fair to say?


Barnet Tories hang on (just, with a delayed election in a safe Lab ward).

Amusingly everyone that defected from Labour in Barking (to UKIP and TUSC mostly) were wiped out.

Not TUSC, but SLP, the party of Arthur Scargill.