English politics special – Local elections 2023 (unbiased thread, for real)

[OrangeRKN]

Local Council is Tory controlled, but the seat in my ward up for election today is currently held by a Lib Dem

Same here. The three candidates standing are tory, labour and lib dem, so I voted lib dem.

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Bless them, the seven brave souls, each of whom shines a beacon of hope and joy .

If we can topple 1,000+ of the bastards, our celebrations shall surely overshadow those of the Lizard Lovers, long into the weekend .

[Octoroc]

I had eight(!) votes, seven of which went to the Lib Dems ( ) and one of which went to the only green candidate- who turned out to be my ex-wife!

[Qikz]

I had 6 votes, 3 across 2 seperate bits of paper. 1 was 3 tories vs 3 labour so that was easy. Second page had 7 people, 3 tories, 3 lab and a green member. I went for green and 2 lab on that one.

[Dowbocop]

I asked the officers if any people had been turned away for ID and they said only one had. I live in quite an affluent area though so driving licences etc will be relatively common. I was going to say this shows that, in my area at least, disenfranchisement hasn't happened, but then maybe people just haven't shown up...

[Herdanos]

I had eight(!) votes, seven of which went to the Lib Dems ( ) and one of which went to the only green candidate- who turned out to be my ex-wife!

Proper DML twist, that.

[Photek]

Is there a results show or something?

[Lex-Man]

I had three votes.

I don't think they propably checked my ID. They had a woman you had to show your id to to get in but then there was a man who would sort out your voting stuff and cross you off the list. So I could have told him anything I wanted.

[Rocsteady]

Sunderland's looking good.

[Dowbocop]

Is there a results show or something?

Usually on the BBC but don't know if you can get it outside the UK.

I just looked at the results and automatically refreshed the page because I'm so used to VAR ruling things out

[Garth]

Over 200 losses for the Tories already

[Garth]

twitter.com/Mollie_Malone1/status/1654362496822591491

twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1654361711791538176

[Samuel_1]

Over 200 losses for the Tories already

Great that the Tories are losing, but Labour is so awful at the moment, I'm finding it hard to be celebratory.

[Zilnad]

Over 200 losses for the Tories already

Great that the Tories are losing, but Labour is so awful at the moment, I'm finding it hard to be celebratory.

I kind of feel the same but my celebratory side is still winning out at the minute. strawberry float the tories

[Oblomov Boblomov]

It's all looking bloody marvellous so far .

[Victor Mildew]

As the BBC aren't reporting on it at all, the tories must be taking a kicking

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Ah, bollocks. Needed them to lose at least 7 seats in my area, but they only lost 5, so retain overall control .

Not so bloody marvellous overall!

[Samuel_1]

Over 200 losses for the Tories already

Great that the Tories are losing, but Labour is so awful at the moment, I'm finding it hard to be celebratory.

I kind of feel the same but my celebratory side is still winning out at the minute. strawberry float the tories

Just loathe Starmer, he's only doing well because the Tories are so bad, not because he has good policies or is inspiring on anyway.

[DML]

Over 200 losses for the Tories already

Great that the Tories are losing, but Labour is so awful at the moment, I'm finding it hard to be celebratory.

I kind of feel the same but my celebratory side is still winning out at the minute. strawberry float the tories

Just loathe Starmer, he's only doing well because the Tories are so bad, not because he has good policies or is inspiring on anyway.

I really disagree with this, watching him in PMQs every week is pretty inspiring.

[Tomous]

Over 200 losses for the Tories already

Great that the Tories are losing, but Labour is so awful at the moment, I'm finding it hard to be celebratory.

I kind of feel the same but my celebratory side is still winning out at the minute. strawberry float the tories

Just loathe Starmer, he's only doing well because the Tories are so bad, not because he has good policies or is inspiring on anyway.

I really disagree with this, watching him in PMQs every week is pretty inspiring.

He's good in PMQs but it's hard to support him when he's dropped so many of the pledges he made to get into the leadership position while cutting as much of the left wing of the party out as he can.

If Labour have to turn blue to win a GE who is really winning?