View Full Version : Local elections: Council and mayoral voting under way
Jimbuna
05-03-12, 07:36 AM
Don't forget to queue early STEED and BossMark :DL
Voters are going to the polls for local elections in England, Wales and Scotland - and to elect mayors in London, Liverpool and Salford.
More than 4,700 seats are up for grabs on 128 English councils, most of which were last contested in 2008.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17927125
BossMark
05-03-12, 09:45 AM
Don't forget to queue early STEED and BossMark :DL
I have just been to put my X next to the Labour candidate :yep:
Tribesman
05-03-12, 11:33 AM
How badly do you think the liberals will get slaughtered?
Also how well will the nationalists do in Wales and Scotland?
BossMark
05-03-12, 11:50 AM
How badly do you think the liberals will get slaughtered?
Also how well will the nationalists do in Wales and Scotland?
I hope the Tory bottom wipers (Lib Dems) lose over 500+ councillors and all their councils that they hold.
As for nationalists not too sure about, but we will soon see what happens.
It will be very interesting to see the results of this after the shock Respect win in Bradford.
How badly do you think the liberals will get slaughtered?
Also how well will the nationalists do in Wales and Scotland?
The SNP will take Glasgow, but probably not by a huge margin. I don't think they expect to win by a landslide. There is still, and will always be, a sizable number of Glaswegians who will vote Labour through what amounts to muscle memory and because their dad and grand dad voted Labour. Doesn't matter, The SNP taking Glasgow will be a huge, seismic shock.
I'm hearing unsavoury things about the behavior of Livingstone/Respect supporters in Tower Hamlets towards the green candidate there. Has anyone heard anything?
Also, who on Earth are the Britannica Party? Are they essentially a UKIP splinter or are they further right?
Jimbuna
05-03-12, 05:12 PM
I should be home by 4pm tomorrow afternoon but admit to be looking forward to seeing the news on tv at work in the morning.
Looks like the chips are falling in Labours favour...the sad truth is that it's probably not because people want Labour in power, they just don't want to Condems.
Good to see the Condems getting a kicking though...perhaps it'll give Clegg a bit of backbone to stand up to the Tories as he sees his support bleed away.
Yeah, I know...I'll go catch that flying pig now...
BossMark
05-04-12, 02:54 AM
Well both the Tories and their bottom wipers the Lib Dems took one hell of a beating.:D
Tribesman
05-04-12, 05:43 AM
Poor Cleggy has announced that he is really sad after the local elections over there, he still doesn't realise that most people already knew he was a really sad git since you lot had your general election.
Well both the Tories and their bottom wipers the Lib Dems took one hell of a beating.:D
As a bonus the BNP got wiped out too:yeah:
Jimbuna
05-04-12, 07:00 AM
Nothing unexpected tbh....I'm still not sure any of the parties know the fix though :hmmm:
BossMark
05-04-12, 08:29 AM
Having watched most the results come in and its great viewing, BTW how come every rotten Tory MP who as been interviewed by the BBC is still trying to blame Labour for the crappy coalition government making a complete mess of things.
And where is STEED when you need him
Herr-Berbunch
05-04-12, 08:55 AM
Having watched most the results come in and its great viewing, BTW how come every rotten Tory MP who as been interviewed by the BBC is still trying to blame Labour for the crappy coalition government making a complete mess of things.
And where is STEED when you need him
Because years of bad government (probably even before B-Liar) cannot just be wiped out in a relatively short space of time.
The fact is (again, still) that Brown and B-Liar spent more than what was coming into the pot even when that pot was extremely full. They took none out and thought, 'I'll keep that in a separate pot for next year', they just went straight down to Asda and still bought more on the credit card... :nope:
I'm not saying that any other government would've been different, but I don't see what any other government could do afterwards either! Whoever was in power would have to do something, and that something would always be unpopular. Even I disagree with some decisions they've made though.
B-Liar's exit was timed well, over many things, this being just one of them.
To be fair though, that old chestnut is starting to wear a little thin. Although if and when Labour get in then they'll blame the ConDems for everything that goes wrong.
It's a pity that Labour will come away from these election results thinking that they have scored a victory over the Tories and that public opinion is behind them.
This is a Tory defeat but it is not a Labour victory. The lowest turn-out since 2000 show that the public have lost all faith in ALL of the parties, and that votes for Labour are not votes FOR Labour but AGAINST the ConDems.
I've read a few comments on the BBCs Have Your Say about people deciding not to vote for the first time in their lives, or deliberately spoiling their paper, and plenty more people stating that there should be a 'None of the above' option on ballot papers, something which I am in agreement on.
NONE OF THE ABOVE.
I stand by my sig, my ward is liberal for over 20 years now because they are the only ones who keep posting leaflets and knocking on the door. The council swings from Libs to Cons and back again with the odd NOC, I care not for District Elections as most of the power is with the County Council. I would abolish the District Councils which would save the tax payer money.
Bloody tellers get on my tits, we want to see your card! Go to Hell, I don't have to show you sod all.
I just checked my council no change, still NOC.
Libs lost 4 to Lab, Con no change as they hold the most seats.
BossMark
05-04-12, 10:11 AM
Leeds result Labour hold
Labour 63 seats + 8
Tories 19 seats -2
Lib Dems 10 seats -6
No surprise really
District Elections are always used as a protest vote against the government of the day. I say scrap them and lets have a government vote of confidence and if it goes to 70% against then the government must step down and hold a general election.
HOLY COW BATMAN
I just checked my ward and it has changed hands from Liberals to Labour!
I need a drink, fast.
Right I got some ward issues lets see if my new councillor a labour one can do better than the Liberals who failed.
Time to get that letter in the post.
BossMark
05-04-12, 11:32 AM
HOLY COW BATMAN
I just checked my ward and it has changed hands from Liberals to Labour!
I need a drink, fast.
Taking your new Labour councillor for a pint then :yep:
Taking your new Labour councillor for a pint then :yep:
That depends if they do something about the issues I raised with the Liberals who are now de funked and did sod all.
If Labour in my ward dose something then I may vote for them in two years time.
Jimbuna
05-04-12, 12:07 PM
HOLY COW BATMAN
I just checked my ward and it has changed hands from Liberals to Labour!
I need a drink, fast.
:har::har::har:
Fancy a big sloppy wet kiss jim?
Pucker up baby here I come.
Jimbuna
05-04-12, 12:39 PM
Fancy a big sloppy wet kiss jim?
Pucker up baby here I come.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2298/hirsch07pr71.gif
I'm just amazed my ward finally changed hands after 22 years.
Who egged ED?
Bloody twit he missed Clegg/Cameron my miles.
Jimbuna
05-04-12, 01:01 PM
Whoever it was certainly wasn't brave enough to pick on Big John :DL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTiI1e-wVc
Whoever it was certainly wasn't brave enough to pick on Big John :DL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTiI1e-wVc
That was a good one, biffed him on the chin. Should have nutted him one as well. :DL
Jimbuna
05-04-12, 03:13 PM
That was a good one, biffed him on the chin. Should have nutted him one as well. :DL
Apparently he did....after he was 'cuffed' :03:
Labour hold Glasgow. Well done to them. Now for another 5 years of corruption and the siphoning off of tax payers money to gangsters! Well done the people of Glasgow! Vote for Labour no matter how little they have ever done for you! Bravo!
Still, it could be worse: It could be Respect.
Red Ken has bummed, Boris is back!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17946742
That teach you to put on crocodile tears you jack ass.
Now sod off and walk your dog, Labour don't use him again do you hear me. BossMark is your man to put up in 4 years time so we can look forward to BossMark nutting Borris one.
Stitch that jimmy...I mean Borris. :haha:
And Boris wins London. I know I never had a horse in that race but it always seemed as an outsider he did ok in his first term. Labour win the London Assembly but don't want Ken. Too much baggage, perhaps. Particularly with recent additions.
ken just made a point about the next Tory leadership battle being decided tonight....it's not often I agree with him.
The country like Cameron as a leader but hate the Tory Party.
David Cameron defects to Labour and they win the next general election with Cameron. :o
What annoys me about Labour's success is that I can think of very few parties over the last few decades that deserve it less. regardless of how bad the coalition have been, they have been surpassed by the sheer, limp wristed, utterly ineffectual pointless and toothless failure of Labour and it's leadership to provide any sort of functional opposition to a deeply unpopular government. My biggest fear at this point is that the Labour leadership will take these results as tacit approval from the electorate that doing bugger all is perfectly acceptable.
Still, again, at least it ain't Respect...:DL
BossMark
05-05-12, 01:19 AM
With Boris the ponce winning the London mayor and Labour winning the London assembly now that must be a real showing up for dodgy Dave ConMan :hmmm:
Jimbuna
05-05-12, 05:23 AM
Barmy Boris has defied the trend....a Tory winning during the unpopular tenure of a Tory government.
Dozy Dave must be scratching his head and wondering what the answer is.
Barmy Boris has defied the trend....a Tory winning during the unpopular tenure of a Tory government.
Dozy Dave must be scratching his head and wondering what the answer is.
Well, there was only 60000 votes between the two of them so it was pretty close. I'd love to think that the London electorate finally had enough of Kens gaffes (such as his tax avoidance, his repeated, unpleasant comments about London's Jewish community, his paid television work for the holocaust denying, propgandist Press TV, is willingness to screw Labour over at several times in the past couple of years when it suited him, his support for several deeply unpleasant dictators and goverments, his need to surrounded himself with a gang of hardcore trot idiots and his indulgence of cronyism....sorry....forgot myself for a moment...:D) but I know, deep down, they voted for Boris because he hasn't done a bad job and comes across as quite personable.
Also, don't forget, Boris has distanced himself from the Tories, to a certain extent. That probably helped him a lot as well.
Boris has distanced himself from the Tories, to a certain extent. That probably helped him a lot as well.
This was taken up earlier on LBC with David Mellor & Jacqui Smith both former MP's from the Conservative & Labour party's and both agree Boris is more of a thorn in Cameron's side and will continual to give him a hard time. :hmmm:
Alex Salmond leader of the SNP got a hammer blow to his dream to wipe the mainstream big three out of Scotland. Labour took control from what was NOC in Glasgow and gaining more seats in NOC Edinburgh over the SNP.
Jimbuna
05-05-12, 06:46 AM
Alex who?
Alex who?
http://dougsaunders.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/alex_salmond_1244016c.jpg
"I just put a Haggis hit contract out on this jim feller for taking the whizz out of me".
BossMark
05-05-12, 07:32 AM
http://dougsaunders.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/alex_salmond_1244016c.jpg
"I just put a Haggis hit contract out on this jim feller for taking the whizz out of me".
Hasn't this fat pig also been on the Leveson enquiry?
Jimbuna
05-06-12, 09:38 AM
http://dougsaunders.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/alex_salmond_1244016c.jpg
"I just put a Haggis hit contract out on this jim feller for taking the whizz out of me".
Ah yes...Wee Eck :DL
Tribesman
05-06-12, 01:49 PM
Hasn't this fat pig also been on the Leveson enquiry?
Isn't he the only party leader still on friendly terms with Muroch, murdoch backs the nationalists for independence and if they get their way its the SNP handing out the new broadcasting licences to newscorpse.
Jimbuna
05-06-12, 02:53 PM
Isn't he the only party leader still on friendly terms with Muroch, murdoch backs the nationalists for independence and if they get their way its the SNP handing out the new broadcasting licences to newscorpse.
That angle was discussed with me at work today for the first time and you know what?......I wouldn't be suprised in the least :DL
the SNP handing out the new broadcasting licences to newscorpse.
Better hurry up then, Muroch is under investigation now in America.
Tribesman
05-07-12, 03:27 AM
Better hurry up then, Muroch is under investigation now in America.
Which investigation?
The corruption one, the hacking of US citizens phones or the the hacking on US territory.
Jimbuna
05-07-12, 04:48 AM
I'd heard...on suspicion of being an escaped felon from some penal colony :hmmm:
Which investigation?
The corruption one, the hacking of US citizens phones or the the hacking on US territory.
May be this one.
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/3/rupert_murdoch_in_unprecedented_firestorm_as
Only heard it as a news summery on the radio.
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