Politics

[Dimron]

Just placed my vote for our new mayor (I'm in Lincolnshire)... do you think the cock and balls party will get in?

[Spider]

🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨

Reports coming in that following todays local elections, Starmer is still the gaffer.

 

[Jol_BWFC]

I found this interesting. 

 

Edited May 1, 2025 by Jol_BWFC

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Very interesting (don't know why it states 1st January as a potential date though)

Latest elections though may just make the bookies have a rethink. 

Lincolnshire has been a strong Conservative area.

Lost the mayoral election hugely.

Runcorn: one of the safest seats for Labour, now gone.

At the moment, Reform are doing well and won't be considering any allegiances, but, as the next election approaches, some sort of agreement may well happen, to ensure the current incumbents lose.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

7 hours ago, Spider said:

🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨

Reports coming in that following todays local elections, Starmer is still the gaffer.

 

Some desperate stuff with that post.

He certainly won't be so happy this morning. He's been given a massive wake up call.

A long way to go of course, but if he adopts your dismissive approach he's toast.

He's too bright to do so though, which is a good thing.

[Spider]

There’s about 20,000 councillors in England.

Lets see how many are reform when all the votes are in and go from there 😊

[Ani]

7 hours ago, Spider said:

🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨

Reports coming in that following todays local elections, Starmer is still the gaffer.

 

Said after the GE if come the next election Labour have not sorted out

1 Economy

2 NHS

3 Immigration

They will lose, a lot depends of how you interpret ‘sorted out’ but they won the last election based partially on how shit the Tories were, if they prove over the term of parliament to be no better why would nt people vote Reform or Liberal ? Being unpopular in year 1 is really not a problem as long as they have a plan to recover. 
 

Of course they can point at Trump as the problem but there will always be something that causes problems it is part of the job. They just need to focus on delivering their electoral promises such as house building winter fuel and PIP will not be issues in 4 years time if the bigger stuff is resolved, hopefully some of the stuff that is happening ‘quietly in the background’ will deliver tangible benefits

[Spider]

What are reforms economic policies?

[Ani]

5 minutes ago, Spider said:

What are reforms economic policies?

As clear as Labours were 4 years from last GE. 

[deeane Koontz]

Labour were doing u-turns on everything. Didn't really matter at the time because the Tories were so shite.

[Spider]

6 minutes ago, Ani said:

As clear as Labours were 4 years from last GE. 

👍

Local elections innit. And not many of them either.

I am enjoying Twitter moongs claiming Rochdale to now be a reform seat.

Amusing.

[mickbrown]

1 hour ago, Spider said:

What are reforms economic policies?

Stop the boats. 
 

 

[Big E]

2 hours ago, Spider said:

There’s about 20,000 councillors in England.

Lets see how many are reform when all the votes are in and go from there 😊

Remember when folk didn’t take Brexit seriously and that fucked stuff up. 
 

I didn’t think reform would get into Runcorn where they voted Labour last time but they have 

[Spider]

28 minutes ago, Big E said:

Remember when folk didn’t take Brexit seriously and that fucked stuff up. 
 

I didn’t think reform would get into Runcorn where they voted Labour last time but they have 

Sinn Fein have MP’s

No doubt reform will end up in double figures next election, but now they’re a genuine contender for votes, they need to start talking about more than dinghies.

[Winchester White]

35 minutes ago, Big E said:

Remember when folk didn’t take Brexit seriously and that fucked stuff up. 
 

I didn’t think reform would get into Runcorn where they voted Labour last time but they have 

Aye, folk have been convinced that Farage isn't the snake oil salesman he actually is.

Reform will gain ground and the Tories & Labour will lose massive numbers of the electorate to them for sure.

[gonzo]

Said it ages ago, downplay Reform at your peril.

They will 100% be the main opposition at the next GE. Tories have had it.

 

[Ani]

27 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Said it ages ago, downplay Reform at your peril.

They will 100% be the main opposition at the next GE. Tories have had it.

 

The Tories are going backwards from a really low base.

[Big E]

21 minutes ago, Ani said:

The Tories are going backwards from a really low base.

I think Labour need to worry more. They are losing out when they are the people who folk blindly vote for. 

[Farrelli]

21 minutes ago, Ani said:

The Tories are going backwards from a really low base.

Reform will take the country further backwards but that is the direction of travel globally now as seen by Trump. 

[Zico]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Said it ages ago, downplay Reform at your peril.

They will 100% be the main opposition at the next GE. Tories have had it.

 

I read the woman who won in Runcorn was ex Tory

as is Anderson (though he is ex labour too)

wonder if loads of Tories will just jump ship and voting for new Reform is liking voting for old Tory

[bolty58]

2 hours ago, Big E said:

Remember when folk didn’t take Brexit seriously and that fucked stuff up. 
 

I didn’t think reform would get into Runcorn where they voted Labour last time but they have 

Leave them asleep at the wheel mate. There's a good lad.

We are coming down the road.

[ianofcleveleys]

Tories decimation is looking not a million miles off that of the Lib Dems in the last decade.

Reform might gain some more traction if, as they continue to win more Mayoral and Council seats, and the odd by-election, they start to get some more credible operators into high profile posts. In the current times of personality politics, they're very much Farage's party (I sat in a caff at GE time overhearing folk saying how they were 'voting for Nigel'). Bit like 'Frank Lampard's Coventry' 🤣

[Ani]

29 minutes ago, Big E said:

I think Labour need to worry more. They are losing out when they are the people who folk blindly vote for. 

Labour have 4 years to deliver something, if they do peoples attitudes will change.

The Tories are still infighting and have no where to go. If they try and go right they run into Reform, more central and they run into Labour. 

[wanderer1984]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Said it ages ago, downplay Reform at your peril.

They will 100% be the main opposition at the next GE. Tories have had it.

 

Apparently a wasted vote 🤓

[Cheese]

Time to see if Reform have anything beyond the bullshit and bluster. I suspect not.