Anti Tory Tactical Voting.

[gulliver1]

Could see terrible Local Election loss for Rishi Sunak say polling experts.
And lead to a Labour Majority at the next GE.
...Tactical voting is when people dislike and hate the present Govt so much they will take what ever weapon is available to beat it with. And the Tories could well lose over a 1,000 seats with this style of voting.

[Gromit]

Much confused thinking there.
The Conservatives are very unpopular at the moment and they will lose a lot of Councillors. Nothing machiavellian about not voting for them. Nothing tactical at all.

[naomi24]

Established Conservative areas will not vote Labour. Why would they? They know Labour are only good for spending other people’s money - and not getting a lot for it.

[gulliver1]

16,26 Labour are only good for spending other peoples money, only there aint any left to spend after Boris , Matt Hancock, and Baroness Mony old Uncle Tom Cobly and all spent trillions of tax payers money on fraudulent useless ppe contracts, and none of them ever bought before the courts ,Thats conservatism.

[Gromit]

Even in established Conservative areas the vote will be down.

[Deskdiary]

Thanks for explaining what tactical voting is, otherwise I would not have understood what you were talking about.

[fiveleaves]

Be wise, do whatever you can to stop the Tory winning

[douglas9401]

Whose money do Tories spend then, naomi?

[ynnafymmi]

@18.41.And if you are up here in Scotland do whatever you can to stop the Tartan Tories(SNP)from winning.

[Old_Geezer]

Tactical voting is when supporters of a party opt not to vote for them, not because they don't like them but where a second choice candidate has a better chance of succeeding against the party the voters really don't like. So I can't see many traditional Tory voters trying that either in the local, or next general election.

However disgruntled traditional Tory voters may split the vote and let another right wing party gain ground come the next GE; the result of which isn't clear. It may result in the present main opposition forming a government instead and being even more tax & spend than the present government. On the other hand it could result in a new party holding a balance of power and forming a coalition with the Tories. It seems less likely but it isn't impossible. Given the similarity between the two main parties at present, insufficient to choose between them, the time has never been more advantageous for someone new to become a main force.

[ynnafymmi]

@21.39.I always said Corbyn should form a new political party.He could call it the National Socialist British Workers Party.Lets see how that works out with the British electorate?

[ichkeria]

A new party?

There is no sense or inkling that any such thing is about to happen, and certainly nothing likely to affect the balance ot power in what is effectively a two-party system.
UKIP were a force once, but ironically only won seats in the European parliament and in local elections.
Brexit threatened to cause a realignment in British politics, but despite the temporary emergence of a new party, it never happened and it baffles me that some commentators talk of such a thing now.

[ToraToraTora]

incumbent government does poorly in mid term local elections! Who'd have thunk it!

[ToraToraTora]

yes ich, this is a 2 party system that occasionally elects a Labour government. The rest of the time Labour are there so that when people get angry they can punish the government in mid terms etc when it makes no difference. Come an actual GE the Xs get put in the normal place.

[ynnafymmi]

Same up here in Scotland,gully.A hated government,yet they still get voted into power.The same down in England.Are us plebs being lied to?