Best Of

Spectacular result for the Tories in Aberdeen, Arbroath up next.

Tories win back a seat they held until the excellent Stephen Flynn won it in 2019 in a meagre turnout where barely 30% voted.

Spectacular LOL

Get a grip.

Labour nearly lose their deposit LOL

Let's see the Tory vote in Makerfield, may be even lower than Gorton

I predicted before, Aberdeen could be most Southerly seat Tories hold at next GE.

DINOSAUR Oil lobby voting for Climate disaster

Massive public opinion in favour of green renewable safe energy, except in Oil City clearly.

The Tories also made gains in London in the local elections, so are progressing in the capital as well as parts of Scotland. They also held a number of Southern councils

Result from Essex:

Rochford, Sweyne Park & Grange

Con 56.1% (+39.2)
Ref 24.8% (-14.9)
LD 13.2% (-3.3)
Grn 4.2% (-3.9)
Lab 1.7% (-1.9)

Con gain from RefUK

Kemi having a good night....

Reform are having a shocker.
A couple of handy Labour holds in Swansea and Bury too.

It's weird, Twitter kept assuring me Andy Bunrham wasn't even that popular, despite the fact I live in Manchester where he is really popular.

Yes. A succession of folk with no ties to GM kept sternly informing people that it was not true.
Even famous non-Labour types like cookie and Barty were basically told they were hallucinating.

Always felt weird to me. I don’t like the man but I can’t deny he’s popular on a scale no Labour person has been for a very long time. Hence why he’s clearly their best choice.

Why don't you like him out of interest?
He seems the very definition of a likeable bloke. But maybe that's a NW thing.
I never could get the Boris thing.

He strikes me as completely empty and opportunistic and willing to do and say basically anything. He was an average minister and did terribly in two leadership contests (2015 being a particular highlight).

I don’t care where the PM is from. It’s never bothered me.

I don’t hate him. I just don’t warm to him. He seems like Sir Keir but more charismatic.