Roughly 17,000 councillors in the UK. Nearly 6500 Labour. Just over 5000 Tory. 3000 Lib Dem.
Reform have 799 and suddenly N.F. is being touted by the media as the next Prime Minister?
The Green Party have 850 councillors. Why aren't the Green Party being bigged-up by the press?
Seriously, why?
Reform have 799 and suddenly N.F. is being touted by the media as the next Prime Minister?
The Green Party have 850 councillors. Why aren't the Green Party being bigged-up by the press?
Seriously, why?
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It's a sharp increase and a suggestion of things to come.
We need to address this now before we potentially find ourselves looking down the barrel of a Farage PM.
It just beggars belief how .such the Beeb want Farage to succeed.
This year was a low year for the number of seats contested too, due to...
The overall numbers of councillors don't reflect the voting intentions of people today.
I hate Farage btw, but your post is just pretending his hand isn't as strong as it is.
There are "There are roughly 17,000 councillors in England."
Boothby, old fruit, I fancy you've indulged in the sin of conflation.
I think we should just ignore them … but the media won’t .
Had all seats been up for election then they would now have been the dominant force locally.
Unless there is a reason to think that those seat not up for election
As far as I know all national polls shows Reform to be in the lead with FPTP that might be enough to transform the UK parliament in 2029. Unless someone does something about it. Doing nothing is probably not a good idea.
The best hope is that Reform…
I think Reform will disappoint. Staff County Council has no real influence over immigration !
Trivialising the Reform victory in the local elections is the opposite of the action needed.
Will many Reform councillors perform poorly…I have no doubt but will there voters realise this…
• current Tories loathe non-Tories
• post-internet legacy media (already RW) rely on short conflict-coded clickbait headlines, Greens messaging demands thought, so they don't make msm money
I think some might be England-only, and some might be GB-wide, and some might be UK-wide?
The billionaire oligarchs want these bozos bad because they are beholden to $$$ not people.
From last years local elections
Not saying you’re less likely to form a Government but l think that’s the reason.
GB News is basically a Reform TV channel - it’s cost its funder tens of millions.
https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2024/03/05/gb-news-receives-41m-to-cover-continued-losses/
consider the last few decades, and tell me this isn’t true
the function of the press is to police and corral the hoi polloi, and curtail any uppity ambitions
Incompetence
It has fallen into the hands of Right Wing
Propagandist. The BBC should loose the licence fees paid us all.
#DefundTheBBC
Who owns the "media" And no it is NOT "THE JEWS."
Reform is the hardline element of conservatism. This is a protest vote because their tory party is fragmented and split like a rotton log in a forest. Once you open it up its full of creepy bstards
Turns out I just had a flat tyre.
Capitalism loves fascism. It hates environmentalism.