Local Elections.

Tories making gains, mainly from UKIP, who are getting wiped out. The rise and fall of another political party in UK politics.

Amazing result in Croft Baker which now has a Tory councillor who is still at school. I'm all for the young getting involved but there must surely be questions asked about the level of experience needed to represent 6000 people...

“North East Lincolnshire has been going downhill for far too long. I was honest with people on the doorstep and told them what was happening. I heard complaints about high council tax, pot holes and speeding. Now there’s someone on the council who will put politics before people.”

Spoken like a true member of the current Tory party.

Quoted from LH

“North East Lincolnshire has been going downhill for far too long. I was honest with people on the doorstep and told them what was happening. I heard complaints about high council tax, pot holes and speeding. Now there’s someone on the council who will put politics before people.”

Spoken like a true member of the current Tory party.

Honest enough to say that the government has slashed the block grant to the council and that's why things have been tough?

https://www.theguardian.com/so.....care-spending-review

If this wasn't mentioned, the candidate was lying before they even started!

Typical Tory policy - making cuts which adversely affect the poorer areas much more than the wealthy ones. Being able to keep all 100% of business rates and allowing higher council tax rises doesn't help if you're an impoverished area with low rates and high unemployment. Lower than vermin, the lot of them.

My local councillor is now Tim Mickleburgh. I need to move.

LDs won Kingston borough back off the Tories. Labour will never win here, so I suppose that's the best that could be hoped for.

The overall results are interesting. You'd think that Labour had fizzled out going by the coverage on the BBC especially (I haven't looked at the right wing press).

Lab had the highest % of councillors since 1971 and that was when the Liberal party were even worse off than the LDs after the disaster that was Nick Clegg.

https://www.theguardian.com/po.....results-2018-in-full

I see regular home and away Town fan Paul Silverster  took a seat in Park Ward.

Never saw him as a Tory tbh but he did well to break the Lib Dem stranglehold in that Ward

What's his position on the PP stadium proposal?

Quoted from KingstonMariner

The overall results are interesting. You'd think that Labour had fizzled out going by the coverage on the BBC especially (I haven't looked at the right wing press).

Lab had the highest % of councillors since 1971 and that was when the Liberal party were even worse off than the LDs after the disaster that was Nick Clegg.

https://www.theguardian.com/po.....results-2018-in-full

Craig Murray had a bit of a rant about this. Given his worldview (much of it backed up by his experiences in the foreign office!), he sees this as shameless conspiracy, but I'm less convinced.

I think it's more a case the modern day (shoddy) journalism has become less about reporting what has actually occurred and more about reporting about what the prevailing narrative says. In this case, Labour wanted to win a few solidly Tory councils, but didn't manage the feat. Therefore, the journalists ignore the rest of the numbers and report it as a failure and also see if they can blame any of it on the claims of left-wing antisemitism which have been whipped up over the past year or two.

Apparently, the fact that the Tories did pretty badly in these local elections was a boost to the party and Theresa May - that they weren't wiped out despite the callous ineptitude of the government is somehow seen as strength! The fact that you could put a blue rosette on a pig in many of these wards and it would still be elected isn't seen as worthy of a mention. It's the same for many staunch Labour areas, of course.

Cue lots of articles/reports which attempt to paint widespread movements in the political direction from these local elections without any real mention of the actual results.