Labour are totally toast in Thursday’s elections

[Nicewoman]

I can’t wait for Thursday. Labour are finished. Not a single moment too soon. Happy Dayz

Over 60% of 61 year olds work.
40% still have children living at home.
25% have responsibility for elderly parents.
Over half of 61 year olds do voluntary work, often on top of their jobs.
Over 60% provide childcare for grandchildren.

A 38 year old can vote between 7am and 10pm at the polling station . Two minutes in a 15 hour window.

If that's not possible they can arrange a postal vote.

It isn't about age or time it's about priorities, not rocket science.

Any 38 year old (anyone of any age in fact) who doesn't take two minutes out of their year to vote is failing to shape the future for themselves or their children.

Why?

The Lib Dem’s are going to do pretty nicely out of the local elections-largely at the expense of what is left of the Tories.

Council leadership will be very odd countrywide. A right mishmash.
Reform will pick up some Councils then panic that they have to actually run them. Liberals some and blather on about what they have done, but oddly, locally you won’t really notice any change.
Conservatives will hold tight on many areas and be thrifty.
And the Green Party might win seats in places. And cause mayhem.

Labour will be badly bruised. And left licking their wounds.

Just out of interest, why do you think that's a good thing?

Agree . I really don’t think we need any more change right now . The world is already unsteady enough.

Yes, I expect they will in some areas. Not where I live though... they might as well not exist near here.

I fear that we will just get more Reform and a smattering of Green.

Agree so much with this.
I’ve instilled in my 2DDs that it is a priority to vote in every single election. If you don’t vote you have absolutely no right to complain about anything political.

My council is Conservative, Reform is snapping at their heels so for the first time in my life I’ll be holding my nose and voting Conservative. (I’m a life long Labour voter).

Anyone but Reform is my moto!

It isn't as if OP is subtly trying to undermine labour and you have been clever to spot it.

It is the case that the Council elections are different from a General Election. How your local Council is run is experienced by local area and is concerned with local issues. How well your council deals with housing, waste collections, parks etc etc and how much you pay for the services will decide how you vote. There will also be protest votes to air opinions on how well the Government of the day is doing. Then some vote as they always have. Also there is the populace vote which is based on the appearance and personality of a Party leader. If the leader is a good performer (think Boris Johnson)then many won’t look further than the performance. Thank goodness the dull and quiet Attlee was voted for after the War otherwise the NHS and pensions would never have come about. I will be looking at the record of the local council and vote accordingly. I won’t be voting Reform or Green both of whom have not served the Councils they won with any credit. As for Reform gaining any foothold in the government of this country then this would be the biggest disaster to have hit this country since the Second World War..

I'm north Sefton. Some of our current councillors have moved to the south of the area to try to improve their chance of remaining as councillors. They came round about 6 weeks ago to beg for our votes!

Good.

Hear hear about Clement Attlee.

You're lucky. All of our local candidates have sent literature just slagging the other parties off. It makes it rather difficult to choose who to vote for when nobody seems to want to tell us what they'll actually do if elected.

@LizzieSiddal My grandmothers had to wait for the law to change before they could vote. They were in their late 20s before they were first allowed into the polling booth.

To them it meant a power, choice and freedom that their mothers didn't live long enough to experience.

Given what women went through to get the vote why would any woman fail to stand up and make her voice heard?

@keepswimming38 what do you mean exactly? People age 61 will mostly be working. How will they have more time than anyone else?

Yeh that was an amusing line. If Labour don’t know what the public sentiment is that’s part of the problem for them.

@keepswimming38 I’m going to make a wild suggestion for you, that you might find helpful.

Take your kids to the polling station. You get to vote, it takes 2 minutes, and the kids get to learn something.

There you go.

All these poorer people voting reform it makes me laugh.

They will look at the amount councils spend on care, disabled kids etc, and cut it.

But they do put up flags with the money though. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz68d284dvyo

undecided. It’s not like we have a good choice.

God, what a monumental waste of taxpayers' money!

You also have to wonder why foreign based billionaires keep pouring money into Reform. Are they concerned about the poor, sick and unemployed or is there another motive?

Surely if Reform were really concerned about the country Richard Tice and Farage would be paying their taxes properly rather than failing to declare donations and avoidiing tax any way they can.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5pr0gp3gro

Even if it is a disastrous night for Labour, this is only the local elections. I appreciate that the RW media is predicting that Starmer will have to step down if Labour have a terrible night, but do we really think someone better will replace him? I'd much prefer Yvette Cooper or even possibly Wes Streeting, but the thought of Angela Rayner in No 10 is enough to give me a heart attack. And lots of Reform-lead councils is nothing to celebrate at all.

It is highly suspicious.