Council Elections

[OneTealShaker]

The first declared seats going to Reform.

Reform +2
Labour -1

Buckle up people.

Because it was funny and because why should he get to post stuff like this full of hate to our house and probably tens of thousands of others which children may pick up from the doormat? The irresponsibility of this was a good thing to highlight.

It’s actually really sad but I guess they’ll have to realise their mistake. A lot of people are probably just desperate and believe the lies. Reform don’t represent the general public they are there to represent the interests of the elite and big businesses. As I said before this local success is good as it will expose their weaknesses before a GE.

But how many people know what the council is responsible for versus the national government

No one seems to be talking about the Greens who look to have had an absolute shocker. The two main parties haemorrhaged votes, this was the opportunity of minor parties- as proved by Reform. And where the fuck are the Greens?

After all that hype and the opportunity to sweep up the votes of the disillusioned left? Next to nothing at this stage. The Lib Dem’s have done better without the hype and national media circus.

We have a Reform council.

We are paying MORE but getting LESS.

Its a car crash that will no doubt replicate itself across England.

They probably just want an economy that's not in the gutter Mike

Boggles the mind doesn't it. I'd say I earn a middling type of wage. I did the calculations based on the last Reform manifesto. I would have received a £5k a year tax cut. Those on minimum wage? £397. Deeply unfair. Where do people think the public spending cuts for those tax cuts will fall? Yusuf promised £300 billion of spending cuts, after decades of austerity. What is left to cut? We only have to look at their failed DOGE copy and paste experiment to see where the truth lies.

My whole family voted reform yesterday
the local councillors impressed us and they had the most valuable arguments for local issues.
the current party running our council has coasted by for years, I hope reform succeed here.
and no I’m not stupid, uneducated or whatever else people on mumsnet say when someone has a different opinion.

I'd argue that lots of people don't. They might know the basics, like their bin collection being organised and funded at a local level, but when it comes to other things, like education, there are definite gaps in knowledge. Such as thinking teachers set the curriculum, when that's done by the central Government.

I have a labour council, I’m paying more and getting less. Council tax rises have been notoriously high everywhere in recent years.

To be fair I think the Greens are expecting wins in places that haven’t counted the votes yet such as certain London boroughs.

So we need to wait longer to see a full picture.

Yes, but any one of them could lose their job at any time and then be cursing the labour government that made it harder to get a new job..I would.

Naga's trousers.😀

I’m happy that my ward has stayed Lib dem

My DP said that if a Reform candidate had appeared on our doorstep saying they were committed to sorting out the most pressing issue in our neighbourhood – pollution caused by crazy traffic levels – he would've voted for them too, because the Labour candidates were only canvassing on national issues. So I totally get what you're saying.

It wasn’t funny. I can’t see anyone else on this thread laughing along with you either. Nobody else found it funny except you! 🙄

I didn’t find it funny either. Not funny to encourage children to let hate into their hearts and children of 6 mainly just parrot the beliefs of their carer(s).

I agree. Sadly they need to suffer the consequences and learn their lesson the hard way as it seems that’s the only way they will do so. When these local areas have increased poverty as a result the rest of us shouldn’t bail them out. They will have to learn via natural consequences given they have failed to reflect since 2016, and at least then there’s less chance of the rest of us having to suffer even more for their idiocy when there’s another general election. There are no good options but to anybody with a functioning brain it’s clear that Reform or the Greens are so deluded they’d make things much, much worse than they are currently. But it’s been evident for some time that a significant proportion of the electorate don’t have a functioning brain so I think it may be good for them to be left to deal with the consequences of their actions this time rather than everyone else suffering for it and then maybe even with a rather sub-optimal skull-to-brain ratio reality may eventually permeate the exterior!

They have been very available, knocking on doors, local events, they seem good people.
haven’t seen one labour candidate and there is double the amount to other party’s in this area, even struggled to find information online.

Firstly nobody has encouraged anything: this was entirely her own reaction.

Secondly, she hasn’t “parrotted” anything because nobody’s ever spoken to her about politics as has already been made clear. She found a leaflet full of hate on our doormat and found it objectionable and decided to respond with her thoughts.

Thirdly, it’s your problem if you have no sense of humour.

I have a functioning brain, Our local area has suffered under labour, no party is perfect, reform offer the best options in this area, it may not happen but it didn’t under Labour either when they promised us the world previously.

No.

People are tired.

I am by no means pro reform but the one thing I cannot stand is the "people are stupid" rhetoric, it stops us actually examining why parties like reform are storming

Why are people tired?
Why do they not feel heard?
Why are they moving from the two big parties ?
Why is the current gvmnt not speaking to them?

Because it surfaces uncomfortable answers no one has wanted to hear for years now aboit how the silent majority of this country, average, hardworking, law abiding, good people, how they really feel.

People are sick of lax immigration
Sick of spiralling welfare bills
Sick of two tier justice
Sick of working more to see less

Are reform the right people to deliver what the public en masse want?

People probably domt know, but theyre willing to gamble it because they know for sure the big two parties arent doing shit for them, and thats the greater of two evils.

But sure, lets just call the silent majority of this country stupid instead of trying to understand them. That'll fix this.

The BBC are projecting Labour will lose 70% of all the seats they are defending. This could be more than 1,500 seats!

This would be the worst result any political party has suffered this century.

This Facebook video sums up my views on Reform nicely

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cf333VxmU/