It's independents.
Reform haven't got a single councillor so far.
Reform haven't got a single councillor so far.
As Brotherhood says, pleasingly it's Indies (some of whom might be fash of course) and the greens are nearly trebling their count.
12-13 years of steadily losing your sight, your marbles, control of your bladder, your mobility.. All the time in the world to yourself and a body in it's last stages of life to make use of it with. Brilliant. It's a fucking shit deal no matter how you slice it.
Government defeated in High Court over climate plans
Activists argued that the plan for cutting emissions would not meet the UK's climate targets.
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happy friday
Aye, I've been a bit out the loop of anything that isn't job hunting for the past week and could've saved myself some mild embarrassment by actually checking the results before saying anything. The Poster's Curse got me.
But yeah, be curious to see what the actual breakdowns are. I haven't paid attention to the English Greens in a long while, but have they managed to deal witth the anti-trans nonsense that was stinking them up?
The mayoral elections kind of prove it's about disliking Tories more than liking labour.
Both of the Tory candidates in the two big races ( Houchen and Street ) pretended they aren't Tory. Hid party branding. Refused to associate publicly with tory mps. Seems to have paid off.
Edit: Like, watching the acceptance speech and Houchen still not wearing a blue ribbon or mentioning Tory party at all
Both of the Tory candidates in the two big races ( Houchen and Street ) pretended they aren't Tory. Hid party branding. Refused to associate publicly with tory mps. Seems to have paid off.
Edit: Like, watching the acceptance speech and Houchen still not wearing a blue ribbon or mentioning Tory party at all
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Again I'll ask, what jobs are the 70 year Olds going to do?
Are we just going to have record unemployment?
Are we just going to have record unemployment?
Surely that's the exception though. My dad worked manual labour from 15, his body was a wreck by 60.
yeah my mum is in a supermarket too, fair few of them her age in there too
It was the exception... it probably wont be going forward.
Work until you're dead, because unlike previous generations you've probably not been able to build up any sort of nest egg / retirement fund.
Yay, hypercapitalism!
We have a few retirees work in my library. They left the workforce and decided to come back to have something to do. It's more like a hobby for them. They work very, very light shelving duties and reduced hours.
So, if every other university in the country does that it'll cover... ooh, a couple hundred people maybe? Best of luck to the other millions of people 70+ I suppose.
This is what I mean, where are the literal millions of jobs that will be physically possible for all these older people to do going to come from? The Tories can't scapegoat them down the road for all the problems when millions are on welfare, who the hell will be left to vote for them?
So Khan wins London, and Labour have won a large portion of seats, with the Lib Dems coming in second….and this thread is silent?
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I'm not sure if I'm happier at the Tories losing that many or that Labour have completely failed to pick most of them up despite their aggressive cosplaying as tories program.
Labour were never going to win in a huge amount of these seats. Don't get misled by some of the tory spin - this was a great night for Labour, and a truly terrible night for the Tories.
Yeah, the narrative is a bit odd. Labour have twice as many seats as any other party and have made significant gains across many NOC councils, this is a really emphatic result. I agree, people shouldn't take the Tory bait on this.
Edit: West Midlands - 'hold my beer'
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It's almost cute how these idiots chase their own tails thinking it's a presentational issue when really people are just absolutely sick of the Tories. They could oust Sunak today, and it'd only make them look even worse still.
I can't wait until I never have to see this complete pillock again.
haha Bastani got a win here, this is going to haunt Galloway - the conservative socialist who casually drops "x number of genders" and "Adam & Steve" jokes
full interview:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4cjsiBLw8&ab_channel=NovaraMedia
the weirdo left continue to run cover for him though:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgM5H62OLE&t=449&ab_channel=NottheAndrewMarrShow
full interview:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4cjsiBLw8&ab_channel=NovaraMedia
the weirdo left continue to run cover for him though:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgM5H62OLE&t=449&ab_channel=NottheAndrewMarrShow
Where is this hung parliament stuff coming from?
Isn't that based off of (bad) assumptions that people will vote same way at GE as in the locals?
Isn't that based off of (bad) assumptions that people will vote same way at GE as in the locals?
We're back to the 'coalition of chaos'. Brilliant.
Next up: Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong government with Rishi, or chaos with Keir Starmer
Next up: Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong government with Rishi, or chaos with Keir Starmer
Yep, it's based off that Sky forecast that used the local election vote share which is almost bordering on fake news as it only accounts for the wards that were actually up for election, it assumes turnout and voting patterns are similar for a general election. If a proper polling company came up with that it would seriously harm their reputation. Everyone knows it's a load of bollocks but it won't stop the Tories pushing it.