[Politics] Local Council Elections

[Kalimantan Gull]

[MENTION=15917]lewis[/MENTION]_goodall
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A bit of history. Different circumstances, different seats but mildly instructive. How many seats the incumbent Leader of the Opposition won in the locals when the govt they opposed was 9 years in. Kinnock in 1988: +76 Cameron in 2006: +316 Corbyn in 2019: -110 (and counting)

Unelectable.

But so are the Tories right now.... makes predicting the next general tricky, but every chance of a Labour-SNP-Plaid minority coalition tacitly supported on certain issues by LibDem, Green, ChangeUK....

..which would be interesting....

 

[S.T.U cgull]

Just starting to come in from MSDC.
Cons holding Bolney plus Lucastes and Franklands wards in Haywards Heath.
Burgess Hill is where the Conservatives will be in trouble over the Northern Arc and failure to deliver anything on the town centre redevelopment.

I think they may well have been concerned as Conservative candidates were going door to door in the streets surrounding the polling station on Cyprus Road yesterday!!

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Not really. If that number is based on 2015, 140 of those had already been lost since then, so not really a "new" loss. They actually now have 708 fewer than they did the day before the election. Seems the fairest way to measure it.

A lot of defections though, where the people originally voted Conservative

 

[vegster]

Mrs May quick to spot that the result indicates that people " Just want to get on with Brexit " … talk about incisive ? Nothing to do with ongoing austerity and the squeeze on council resources then ?

 

[Titanic]

Alistair McNair (Conservative), Carol Ann Theobald (Conservative) and Lee Michael Wares (Conservative) have been elected as councillors for the Patcham ward.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Could the Greens win Brighton and Hove?

BBC South East reporter John Young says "the rumour is the optimism is all with the Green party" in Brighton.

Although the majority of wards are still left to declare, he says Greens are already telling him they could be leading the council again.

In 2011 Brighton and Hove became the first Green council in the country and the area is also home to the party's only MP, Caroline Lucas. However, the party lost control of the council in 2015.

John says Brighton's election has also been affected by national issues, with Brexit damaging the Conservatives and the anti-Semitism row impacting Labour.

 

[Eeyore]

Could the Greens win Brighton and Hove?

BBC South East reporter John Young says "the rumour is the optimism is all with the Green party" in Brighton.

Although the majority of wards are still left to declare, he says Greens are already telling him they could be leading the council again.

In 2011 Brighton and Hove became the first Green council in the country and the area is also home to the party's only MP, Caroline Lucas. However, the party lost control of the council in 2015.

John says Brighton's election has also been affected by national issues, with Brexit damaging the Conservatives and the anti-Semitism row impacting Labour.

Unlikely to win outright- but could be the largest party.

 

[Titanic]

Leslie Arthur Hamilton (Labour) and Alan Robins (Labour) have been elected as councillors for the South Portslade ward.

 

[Eeyore]

Having complained that my Green vote would be worthless out here in the Bramber, Upper Beeding and Woodmancote ward I find out that our man has just been elected.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Could the Greens win Brighton and Hove?

BBC South East reporter John Young says "the rumour is the optimism is all with the Green party" in Brighton.

Although the majority of wards are still left to declare, he says Greens are already telling him they could be leading the council again.

In 2011 Brighton and Hove became the first Green council in the country and the area is also home to the party's only MP, Caroline Lucas. However, the party lost control of the council in 2015.

John says Brighton's election has also been affected by national issues, with Brexit damaging the Conservatives and the anti-Semitism row impacting Labour.

Will this mean more of those lovely plant pots in the road?

 

[TSB]

But so are the Tories right now.... makes predicting the next general tricky, but every chance of a Labour-SNP-Plaid minority coalition tacitly supported on certain issues by LibDem, Green, ChangeUK....

..which would be interesting....

I would seriously advise the Libs against any sort of coalition with an unpopular government in future. Even just on a supply & demand basis.

 

[Ernest]

Westbourne SOLID Labour both candidates elected, I KNEW my knocking on doors would have an EFFECT

 

[Titanic]

Robert Nemeth (Conservative) and Garry Peltzer Dunn (Conservative) have been elected as councillors for the Wish ward.

 

[Eeyore]

Wishbourne SOLID Labour both candidates elected, I KNEW my knocking on doors would have an EFFECT

I wonder if your excursions into Withdean had any effect.

 

[TSB]

In other news, first time I've seen Helen Whateley.
I hope it's not the last

 

[Titanic]

Peter Gerald Atkinson (Labour) and Anne Louis Pissaridou (Labour) have been elected as councillors for the North Portslade ward.

 

[whitelion]

Peter Gerald Atkinson (Labour) and Anne Louis Pissaridou (Labour) have been elected as councillors for the North Portslade ward.

Is Les Hamilton still around?

 

[Bry Nylon]

Is Les Hamilton still around?

I think he went into F1.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I would seriously advise the Libs against any sort of coalition with an unpopular government in future. Even just on a supply & demand basis.

Which is why they didn't enter into coalition with Labour in 2010 because Gordon Brown had just been trounced, and why they knocked back Theresa May in 2017.

It's about time the electorate became a bit more grown up about coalition arrangements and realised issues aren't all black and white.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Is Les Hamilton still around?

Yes, elected for SOUTH Portslade