A Bad Night For Labour

[Deskdiary]

Oh Dear.

Despite the vote for any mid-term election usually going against the incumbent Government, despite the bad couple of weeks with Windrush, despite the (so we are being told by the Remain camp) Brexit negotiations not going well....and so on and so forth, I'd have expected Labour, as Labour expected, to have done considerably better than they have.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/04/labour-and-tories-enjoy-mixed-night-of-results-in-local-elections-in-england

Is this an indictment of Labour's hapless leader?

[ToraToraTora]

this wasn't you at the last GE was it ric?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32658907/election-2015-mp-thanks-voter-for-penis-ballot-paper-mark

[cassa333]

Labour seemed to do quite well by the looks of it and the Conservatives held their own. !!!

[Jackdaw33]

The BBC website currently shows Labour gains of 40 seats and the Tories with the same number of seats as last time, which in the circumstances is a remarkable performance for them.

[Old_Geezer]

They seem to have done ok. I don't see past UKIP voters, who haven't figured out that we aren't out yet, moving from a Leaver party to a Remainer one. Even at local level. There's been voter movement in various directions.

[Spicerack]

Cloverjo

//It doesn't look too bad for Labour right now.//

https://goo.gl/ALQm6x

[Jackdaw33]

I wonder whatever became of Comical Ali. He suddenly disappeared from view, never to be seen or heard of again.

[steg]

He got hanged

[Spicerack]

^Not.

[steg]

I heard he was well hung

[Jackdaw33]

Not according to Wiki. He was apparently still alive in 2014 and living in the UAR. Perhaps you are confusing him with Chemical Ali, who was hanged.

[Spicerack]

There would have been a video of him saying, 'Our cunning plan is working, victory is close' as he climbed the scaffold.

[EDDIE51]

I can't agree that it is 'A bad night for Labour' The opinion on the TV news analysis is that there was very little change for the two main parties. Main point seems to be that the Lib Dems have done better than expected and the collapse of the UKIP vote.

[Spicerack]

Been listening to the aBBC again, Eddie?

[10ClarionSt]

From what I've seen, it's not been a disaster for either party. They always want to do well at any election but this one seems to be even stevens.

I was amused by an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning when Charlie Stayt asked Labours' Andrew Gwynn how these results reflected on Jeremy Corbyn being a Prime Minister in waiting. Mr. Gwynn said that since the General Election, parties have become very polarised with the main parties showing neck and neck in most opinion polls. Charlie Stayt let him off the hook and didn't ask why he hadn't answered the question. It was easy enough; yes or no. I don't think he would have gotten away with it if Paxman had asked him.

[Ellipsis]

> The opinion on the TV news analysis is that there was very little change for the two main parties.

That's not an opinion, that's a fact.

> I can't agree that it is 'A bad night for Labour'

That's an opinion, and not one that I agree with. Considering the Tories' problems at the moment and the fact that they're mid-term, Labour should have been seeing great gains last night, not simply "very little change". If you think what a Labour party with decent leadership and no recent (Jewish) scandals of its own could have achieved, then "little change" is a rubbish result.