Labour isn't Working - Thread 31

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A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour* *government. 💙

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Now "we need better comms" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Always this.

Labour - 804

Birningham approaching half of seats being declared. Currently almost a four way tie

Con - 11
Lab - 9 (19 losses so far)
Ref - 9
Green - 8

Indies - 5
Lib Dems - 3

Restore have also done well in Norfolk. They won all 9 seats they stood in.

Reform gain Barnsley from Labour.

Wow! Thats huge

Around 1,000 more Lab held seats to declare - I think they were defending around 2,500 (??). Current losses approaching 900.

Greens gain Waltham Forest from Labour. Labour lost 32 seats to Greens. Conservatives started on 11 and still have 11. 3 seats left to declare.

Thank you for the excellent updates. 👍

Labour have just hit 900 losses in England.

Labour just manage to come third in Wales.

Secured just 9 seats, two ahead on Conservatives' 7 seats

New two party state in the Principality

Plaid took 43 seats and Reform 34. So over 75% of the available seats.

Labour picked a PR voting system that they thought would advantage them. They thought wrong.

Watching today is even better than last night’s results.

Thanks @boys3

Labour 9 seats in Wales! 🫣 That's gonna hurt.

I think Reform will be happy with that result. Better for them to come second if they want to win the GE.

Lord Glassman telling it like it is on Sky rn.

@boys3 thanks for the updates, I wouldn't want to watch it, it's kind of boring to watch unless it's a more exciting election

I wonder what it is that Labour MP thinks we're not hearing

Mum says she's never seen any party become so unpopular so fast

BTW, does anyone know - the councils that aren't counting until Saturday, why is that?

ooh! Tell me, tell me!

We had a mayoral election where I live as well as local council - they counted the mayoral vote today, and are doing the council seats tomorrow.

He's just being very realistic about what has gone wrong. Praising Mahmood, slagging of the HR lawyer PM, properly mourning thr loss of Wales. Said he used to like going out for a fag with Ange. 😂

Thanks for the update. I will catch up on that somewhere. I do respect what he has to say.

Blue Labour.

Apparently Ange has given up vaping.

Labour now past 1,000 losses in England

Whoop whoop 🍿 🍿

Our Labour councillors have lost seats because they're genuinely appalling at making sensible spending decisions / negotiating good construction contracts. They've spunked millions unnecessarily.

However, they've held Sefton. Our ward went from 3 x Labour to 3 x LD. We didn't get many Reform councillors, thankfully.

Lammy demonstrated his appalling ignorance yet again yesterday.

In an interview he was asked about about the possibility of Starmer resigning. He stated it wouldn't happen, then went on to use what he clearly thought was a clever analogy, likening Starmer to a pilot flying a plane - he doesn't just stop halfway through. Except, of course, pilots do take breaks during a flight, handing over the controls to a co-pilot.

My eyes roll so hard at this statement that I go momentarily blind!