Council Elections

[OneTealShaker]

The first declared seats going to Reform.

Reform +2
Labour -1

Buckle up people.

Also got the greatest debt by a long way

So what else might work, do you think? What strategies might be helpful?

I am hoping this too. Anything to split the right wing vote and these two parties will certainly not work together.

The latest results show that Brexit has caused an 8% decrease in the country's GDP. So yes, let's look forward to a party led by a man who was primarily responsible for this and now won't even talk about it.

"Fool me once..."

I'm not sure there is a way to persuade people not to vote for reform. I haven't found a tactic that works anyway. I'm resigned to suffering the consequences, I hope the UK learns from those consequences and is able to recover. I do think that voting reform is a stupid thing to do and I say that in frustration rather than in an attempt to change anyone's mind. I find it all very sad and frustrating.

Perhaps time has fogged my memory but wasn't Farage an advocate of Brexit and resigned as a Euro MP with a tub thumping speech? The same Brexit that harmed your family and the same Farage (now 5 million richer and due his 72k pension from Europe) who leads Reform?

We have the Greens here, they're absolute c**p.

Er, excuse me, Sheep may well flock, but they most certainly are not thick, I'll have you know (even if they do seem to try to kill themselves, in new and inventive ways, on a daily basis...)

Who’s seen the footage of the white middle class posh Green candidate lecturing about racist Reform, when the black Reform candidate is stood right behind her 🤣🤣

Reminded me of this crazy place 🤣🤣

That's fake news being spread by terrible people.

Where did all the green voters go?

Maybe Labour should stop the infighting within the party and start to work together to plan and govern the country responsibly. A leadership contest would just add fuel to the fire and add to the country’s chaos. Just a thought.

Dunno. Maybe they decided they didn't want anti-semetism, self-id and open borders after all?

That's fair enough and I have times I feel like that too. Perhaps I'm being too hopeful. I just don't want to be too passive about it, to actually do something instead, but of course a lot can happen in two years.

I sort of feel like just "waiting for it all to implode" (which I, like others, suspect it likely will) when there's still such a lot to lose permanently (like the NHS, like longstanding human rights and employment rights legislation that protects everyone and that a lot of people seem scarily complacent about, imo) is a very risky tactic, and we've already seen that the fingerwagging approach and telling everyone they're stupid really doesn't work. I'm hoping for things to get a lot more pragmatic in the run up to the next GE.

Norwich and Hackney by the look of it.

And Waltham Forest.

😂

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html

My bill has a lower increase than usual under Reform. It used to go up 4.99.every year under labour. It's only gone up 3.99 this year under reform. The library has been refurbished and some pot holes filled in.

Such a sore loser.

I am in stitches. My council has moved to NOC and will likely have a Reform leader heading up a Reform/Conservative coalition. There’s a big neighbourhood Facebook thread where everyone is DELIGHTED the potholes are finally going to get sorted 😂😂😂

Nigel is going to ho round with the JCB pothole machine he was photographed on and fix them himself.

I think your attitude is the more healthy one and I really hope that you're right!

Reform took control of our council in 2025.

Since then potholes have got worse. We now have more potholes than anywhere else in the country, apparently.

I do salute your neighbourhood though for at least understanding that potholes and not immigration or the NHS are what the vote was about. It gives a glimmer of hope.