[bluebellnutter]

Some more news from the local elections...

- The BNP have been wiped out in Barking & Dagenham and have lost 22 in total across the board.
- The Tories have lost nine councils and 78 councillors
- Labour have gained 249 councillors and 9 councils
- Labour have gained Doncaster, which means the English Democrat mayor is kicked out
- Good from my pointof view, Labour gains Coventry

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[Mr Mordon]

- Labour have gained Doncaster, which means the English Democrat mayor is kicked out

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[tc-obo]

- Labour have gained Doncaster, which means the English Democrat mayor is kicked out

Does it, though? I was under the impression that, as a directly-elected mayor, he was serving a term of office until the next mayoral elections, not the next council ones.

[mattomac]

It usually takes about two years to make gains in local elections after losing power...........It seems to have taken 4 hours for Labour

[bluebellnutter]

- Labour have gained Doncaster, which means the English Democrat mayor is kicked out

Does it, though? I was under the impression that, as a directly-elected mayor, he was serving a term of office until the next mayoral elections, not the next council ones.

I'm just going by what was told to me by someone who lives in Donny, I assumed if anyone knew they would.

[davidjay]

Mayoral elections are different to council elections. He's still there.

[Timbo]

Are they the ones who want to sever from Wales and Scotland? If so, can we charge members of their party the global market rate for Welsh water and Scottish oil and gas?

[tc-obo]

Technically I think the English Democrats only want an English parliament as a solution to the West Lothian question. I disagree with them - I favour elected regional assemblies - but it's a valid political position. It's just the fact that the rest of their policies are right-wing dog-whistle bollocks that makes them ludicrous.

[Andy McDandy]

Ealing went Labour.

I'll just repeat that - EALING WENT LABOUR.

Considering that this borough, up until last Wednesday had a handful of labour councillors, the Council tax has been frozen for the last 2 years under the old Tory regime, and it's bastard "Stick a blue rosette on a chimp and see it get in" Ealing...it's now 40 Labour, 24 Conservative, 5 LD.

I know that the attention is all (rightly) on who gets into No. 10, but the local elections should put a few smiles on faces. And just confuse the hell out of many others...

[moonshien]

pity votes?

[Le Petomane]

Be sensible.

[mattomac]

pity votes?

Nah probably just sick of the local leadership, similar to the national picture I would say.

[Samanfur]

Rossendale and Darwen went Tory.

Given that this is generally a part of the world where a monkey in a red rosette would win, quite a few people're worried.

But given the amount of UKIP pamphleteering and BNP graffiti around the place, it could've been worse.

I'm still wishing that I was a fly on the wall when some BNP twonk decided to campaign in the middle of Denbigh town centre and - as if that wasn't a silly enough decision - tried schmoozing my Dad. I'd have paid to see the reaction to that.

[mattomac]

Right to bump this for this week, Wales is going to the polls locally, I get to attend my first count as a counting agent for one of the local Labour candidates, going be pretty nervous I'm usually slightly detached/Know we have no chance of winning (Having lived in Tory/Lib Dem wards all my life).

What is happening for others

[Abernathy]

I'm a Labour Election Agent for the umpteenth time. Particularly nervy (but excellent) candidate who still thinks she might lose every five minutes - she won't. Roll on Thursday.