So the Tories have so far lost 473 local council seats with labour winning 165 of them, and the rest being mopped up by a mixture of lib dems, greens and independents.
And just in, Sadiq Khan has thrashed the Tory candidate for mayor of London, despite some click bait headlines about it being closer than originally thought.
But this ain't close...
Implications for the General Election...
OK I know that local election results don't predict general election results - people are much more likely to vote Green or Independent in locals as they have more of a chance of winning.
However this is yet more evidence of a coming Labour Landslide.
And it's more of the same - another massive drift away from the Conservatives, they probably are gonna get tanked.
An interesting insight into Reform UK...
That's the party who hate poor migrants - An interesting little commentary in the Economist pointed out these guys don't even have a Party to speak of, and they struggle to field candidates.
However, they do have a lot of support and ability to shape the agenda in national politics.
In contrast to the LibDems, who have a well organised party, plenty of candidates, but no one really gives a shit what they stand for!
Only Police Commissioner Votes here....
I did make it out to vote at my local polling station, but somehow managed to miss the fact that I wasn't voting in the council elections, only for the Police Commissioner.
I did actually skim read the voting card too, but I somehow still missed this anyway.
The local Tory won by a country mile, but at least this isn't that significant politically, and on the plus side I managed to boost my step count with the short and pleasant evening walk to the polls!
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We only had PCC, but Labour beat the previous Tory.
Khan was about 10% of Hall in London, so a decent win. Some other Labour mayors had massive majorities. The Tories hung onto one, but that's about their only real victory. I think they lost it more than Labour won it. Labour need to show they can actually do better. I know a few people who have abandoned the party over various issues. I'm not a member of any party and never have been.
I just saw that Labour narrowly beat the Tories for West Midlands mayor. Sunak is having a crap bank holiday weekend, but it's hard to feel sorry for him.
I just hope Labour can offer some longer term thinking that's what we really need!
I'm not sure about the reform people. From afar, I get bombarded with this constant war-like rhetoric against each other, so all I ever hear about reform are nazi fascist, extreme/ultra right wing blah blah, all are completely meaningless terms nowadays.
From the couple of interviews of Tice and Farage I've watched, they don't seem to hate immigrants whatsoever. There seems to be this propaganda conflating 'mass/uncontrolled immigration' with 'immigration generally'. And tbh, although I don't like or trust Tice - seems like a bit of a sociopath businessman - I can't really disagree with the fact that mass/uncontrolled immigration is objectively a bad thing - and this is coming from me, whose life has been basically wrecked by the Tory's anti immigration policies.
They've certainly got a popular mandate with the controlling immigration card!
We basically need a more global outlook IMO!
When the general election was held in our country, there was a very wrong system, the candidate of their choice wins, so the people here have lost faith in the election because the winning party was defeated and The losing party was given victory, there is no law, no justice, so the people here are living in trouble.