Saturday 5 May 2018

No Winners But UKIP Are The Losers

The results of the local election's are now all in and of the big three parties, the Conservatives lost 2 Councils, Labour ended with the exact same number they started with and the Lib Dems gained 4 so it is fascinating to hear what the Party leaders had to say about it.
Theresa May said the result showed that the Tories 'are revitalised', Jeremy Corbyn said it shows that 'Labour are Back' while Vince Cable said it was 'a big breakthrough' for his Liberal Democrat Party.
With the turnout between 26% to 36%, only a third of eligible voters bothered to cast a vote so the fact that not much changed is expected with only the hardcore party members stepping over to the ballot box but they can't all claim a victory. 
That the Conservatives have been a complete shambles and are currently in the teeth of a storm over the Windrush crisis, the fact that they have not been turfed out of Councils up and down the country must seem like some sort of victory but they still ended the night worse off then they started it, so hardly revitalising.
With the Government in such disarray, Labour should be turning over the Conservatives at every step but they aren't, they are treading water so not back but plateauing if anything.
Of anyone it is the Liberal Democrats who come out of it with crowing rights but after their decimation at the last election, they are starting from such a low base that they could hardly sink any lower so just adding 4 councils to the few they already held is hardly making a ripple nationwide.
No winners then but the biggest losers were UKIP who never had any councils to start with but pretty much lost any councillors they had and to lose the closet racists and fruitcakes from out politics should never a bad thing.

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