he needs to give Nick Clegg a ring and discuss how trading in your partys credibility for a bit of power goes
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You asked "how else would you interpret it", I was saying that in addition to some voters moving to Remain parties, there is also a frustration for Leave voters with the main two parties that haven't delivered Brexit and people either voting against them or spoiling their ballot papers.
It's more than one.
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Originally posted by Superman Falls View PostIt says everything that the Torys and Labour do poorly in the local elections
But I could be misunderstanding the numbers if your local elections work a bit differently to how they do here.
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostYou asked "how else would you interpret it", I was saying that in addition to some voters moving to Remain parties, there is also a frustration for Leave voters with the main two parties that haven't delivered Brexit and people either voting against them or spoiling their ballot papers.
It's more than one.
The number of spoilt ballots is published in the results, but the collated results I've seen aren't listing them. From the council pages with their own results, the number of spoilt ballots are a tiny percentage of the turnout. No doubt it'll be published somewhere at some point.
The MEP elections will be telling as these will include Farage's party and ChangeUK. However, LibDems and Greens gaining huge number of seats whilst UKIP, Cons and Labour are losing theirs, doesn't seem like a championing for a hard Brexit, as some are claiming, to me.
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Listening to LBC I think Labour is being cast as a huge failure because they were hopeful of winning 400 seats so to lose a hundred has exposed that Corbyn's game has blown the party's chances of performing well in the GE they keep pursuing. That he's still chasing to partner with May is the kiss of death to him now. Making a deal with a woman who's party wants her out and is also likely to break those terms later. He should have backed that second ref
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Originally posted by Asura View PostI'm a bit confused; why do local elections have parties anyway? Aren't they just meant to deal with local issues? Does that really merit party politics?
They should run on local issues but they tend to be a barometer on how the country is feeling about things nationally which is a shame.
Our locals were done on local issues for local people without any shouting and nobody getting burned.
Saw the lovely James Burke on 100 Days last night with an interesting piece, scroll to about 42 minutes;
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Originally posted by CMcK View Post
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