Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!

[How bad boy]

I wonder why did Conan come to mind when I saw this :

Ten years of Brexit: How have UK equities and the pound performed? https://share.google/wbBYCuSodLImOg68K

It has been a big problem, who could possibly have predicted it?

Anyway, Reform are going to take over a lot of UK councils as a result of today's vote. It will be a shitshow.

I don't think Labour are going to do quite as badly as the polls predict but it is going to be bad.

Here's the numbers for the English councils


Even the above for council losses would be a decent result for Labour, some pollsters are predicting almost 2k losses. I'm quietly optimistic but not holding my breath on it.
It'll massively help Reform for the general election, each of those new councillors will bring along a whole bunch of committed campaigners for the general election. Which applies in reverse too.

Labour will lose control in Wales for the first time, which is likely to go to Plaid Cymru, Scotland going SNP and NI isn't voting because it's not due till next year.


Tis all very frustrating, still think Labour are doing a pretty ok job in difficult circumstances.

 

[White Van Man]

It has been a big problem, who could possibly have predicted it?

The Tories did a great job of running the country into the ground in the period 2010-2024, and somehow managed to convince the public to blame Labour for EVERYTHING - health, crime, immigration, cost of living

Anyway, Reform are going to take over a lot of UK councils as a result of today's vote. It will be a shitshow.

Let's see how Reform's practice of putting inexperienced teenagers into positions of power in councils works out for them.

Reform UK puts teenagers in charge of vital public services

Concerns raised about council appointments, including 19-year-old overseeing children and family services

www.theguardian.com

Tis all very frustrating, still think Labour are doing a pretty ok job in difficult circumstances.

Have they moved the country on at all since 2024? It seems like they're just keeping their heads above water.

 

[jams]

I wonder why did Conan come to mind when I saw this :

Ten years of Brexit: How have UK equities and the pound performed? https://share.google/wbBYCuSodLImOg68K

It's a bit like communism.

Things would be much better if only they'd done it right....

 

[How bad boy]

The Tories did a great job of running the country into the ground in the period 2010-2024, and somehow managed to convince the public to blame Labour for EVERYTHING - health, crime, immigration, cost of living

Let's see how Reform's practice of putting inexperienced teenagers into positions of power in councils works out for them.

Reform UK puts teenagers in charge of vital public services

Concerns raised about council appointments, including 19-year-old overseeing children and family services

www.theguardian.com

Have they moved the country on at all since 2024? It seems like they're just keeping their heads above water.

There's loads of ways life in the UK is better in the last 2 years. Real terms wages have increased, with above inflation pay rises. GDP per capita is growing again, which it hadn't done consistently since 2019 (there was the post COVID bounce and the odd few quarters).
Waiting lists are down a bit, not enough but definitely improving. Same with A&E wait times, experienced both significantly improved with members of my extended family.
You then have the renter's rights, your landlord can no longer evict you on a whim or just jack up your rent unreasonably. The workers rights bill, if you start a new job, your probation period where you can be dismissed for no particular reason or laid off without compensation is down from 24 to 6 months.
The cruel 2 child cap on child support payments is gone, removing an estimated 500k from the horrific 4.5M kids in poverty.. The financial support for childcare is significantly expanded. Sure Start centres are being reopened as Best Start centres giving family support services for the most vulnerable.

The UK is back in Erasmus, Horizon, and has an SPS deal that will remove the vast majority of customs checks.

The amount of renewal electricity being commissioned and built is accelerating.
The UK is seen as a leader in European defence again, joining SAFE.

And I see other things cause I do some work with government and do know some labour folk. I'm probably a bit biased, but it does generally look pretty decent, not stellar but nowhere close to even vaguely as bad as the press say IMO

 

[catcha]

Do not open this link, you have been warned xD

Guess the Party

guesstheparty.co.uk

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

The Tories did a great job of running the country into the ground in the period 2010-2024, and somehow managed to convince the public to blame Labour for EVERYTHING - health, crime, immigration, cost of living

Fine Gael were fucking haunted they didnt win the 2007 election because the exact same thing would have happened here.

It's amazing how people's attention spans are this shit.

Anyway, wait, what was i talking..... Oh yeah, Kvaradona, what a player.

 

[How bad boy]

It has been a big problem, who could possibly have predicted it?

Anyway, Reform are going to take over a lot of UK councils as a result of today's vote. It will be a shitshow.

I don't think Labour are going to do quite as badly as the polls predict but it is going to be bad.

Here's the numbers for the English councils
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Even the above for council losses would be a decent result for Labour, some pollsters are predicting almost 2k losses. I'm quietly optimistic but not holding my breath on it.
It'll massively help Reform for the general election, each of those new councillors will bring along a whole bunch of committed campaigners for the general election. Which applies in reverse too.

Labour will lose control in Wales for the first time, which is likely to go to Plaid Cymru, Scotland going SNP and NI isn't voting because it's not due till next year.


Tis all very frustrating, still think Labour are doing a pretty ok job in difficult circumstances.

Initial results suggest it's not the absolute catastrophic loss for labour predicted by some but a bad result regardless. Reform doing well, Greens maybe not benefitting quite as much as their supporters hoped and polls indicated.
There's only a third declared though so early days




Nothing yet from Wales and Scotland.

Incredible that despite the absolute shit show that Brexit still is, Reform are getting that much support. They're not winning control of many councils yet as their support isn't strong enough across entire councils, enough to win a decent chunk of seats but not a majority

 

[Channa]

Do not open this link, you have been warned xD

Guess the Party

guesstheparty.co.uk

I feel like Dougal.

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[How bad boy]

Plaid and SNP have big wins in Wales and Scotland, albeit Plaid will have to agree coalition with one of the left parties. SNP have 55 out of 70 seats so far, so they're going to be dominant again.

Labout down a thousand seats, Tories down 400, Reform currently up 1,200. Green up a couple of hundred.
Bout a thousand seats left to be called, so it's not the utter catastrophe predicted by some, but pretty damned bad for Labour.

Great news for reform, looks like a quarter of the British electorate took a look at Brexit, Trump and thought "yep, let's have that"
Idiots.

 

[White Van Man]

SNP have 55 out of 70 seats so far, so they're going to be dominant again.

Time for another Scottish independence referendum