Still many Constituencies to go but at the moment it looks like 2015 in miniature with the SNP getting Goldilocks swing across the country, even losing vote share where it doesn't matter.
How many seats are you currently predicting the SNP will win?
Not a clue. If they had taken Shetland I would have gone hog wild with a prediction of 68 but no idea. No one has any idea.
Starmer has a year. If it's still dire this time next year he needs to go.
Richard Burgon installing phone lines...
I can't imagine he'd find 20%. The obvious aspirer is Lammy. He's put himself forward for every job in the last ten years. He's also now quite far from his childish former self. I don't think he's brave enough to spark the crisis though.
I think it's Corbyn - I think he'll re-emerge.
Corbyn does have a “king over the water who sensible people in the party despair about making a comeback but holds a grim sway over a lot of the base” feel to him. A bit like Trump.
Starmer has a year. If it's still dire this time next year he needs to go.
Richard Burgon installing phone lines...
I can't imagine he'd find 20%. The obvious aspirer is Lammy. He's put himself forward for every job in the last ten years. He's also now quite far from his childish former self. I don't think he's brave enough to spark the crisis though.
I think it's Corbyn - I think he'll re-emerge.
Corbyn does have a “king over the water who sensible people in the party despair about making a comeback but holds a grim sway over a lot of the base” feel to him. A bit like Trump.
All a bit Game of Thrones. Anyway once I had the thought it seemed not so daft.
And he says three new countries will be added to the red list:
Turkey Maldives Nepal
The Maldives, that is where so many people went to get from a red country to escape hotel quarantine in the UK...have they taken the covid with them there?
Good job there isn't an important sporting event happening there any time soon...
Government in talks to move the Champions League final to England after Turkey placed on red list
The Telegraph can exclusively reveal that the government is in talks with Uefa and would expect any approach they make to be 'accommodated'
The Government is in talks over bringing the Champions League final to England after placing coronavirus-ravaged Turkey on its “red list” for travel.
Friday’s announcement by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps threw Istanbul’s staging of the all-English clash between Manchester City and Chelsea into major doubt amid current restrictions that force anyone returning from a red-list country – including elite sportspeople – to quarantine for 10 days at a hotel at a cost of £1,750.
With a number of England’s best players due to play in the May 29 final, that would plunge Gareth Southgate’s preparations for the European Championship into chaos.
Telegraph Sport has been told talks are under way between the Government, Football Association and Uefa about moving the match to England, something fan leaders from both clubs, and a host of MPs and public health experts have called for.
Whitehall sources stressed ministers had made no formal request to that effect and had yet to be offered the game but multiple insiders indicated any such approach would be accommodated.
Wembley would be the logical venue to stage the match but it is currently hosting the Championship play-off final on the same day and it is unclear whether the English Football League would be prepared to make way.
This is confusing the picture further. In other seats, it looked as though the old Brexit vote was going to Labour. But here, as in Montgomery, it seems to be going to the Tories with the Liberal Democrat vote going to Labour.
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that those are two quite anglicised seats?
Waverley results as reported earlier confirmed: - 3 LD gains from Con with huge swings, 1 Farnham Residents gain from Con. Also in Surrey, Labour took Egham and is potentially in line for another gain (not yet announced).
Looking at Scotland, I see Sarwar got a decent 5% swing against Sturgeon in her constituency. My bet on SNP<70 seats from a tip here is looking safe.
Some of the Welsh results are remarkably good for Labour. I wonder if there's an element of "rewarding the government" in all 3 countries' results as people look forward to ending lockdown.
Wasn't having any of this before now. The results in the NE were as I was expecting. Perhaps even slightly better. But I did expect Labour to move forward in some other regions to compensate. This doesn't appear to have happened. So. Maybe this is value. Labour needs someone who both Right and Left of the Party can at least tolerate as a leader. Desperately. No one obvious springs to mind.
It's not so much left v right. It is fish & chips v tofu.
Even Lord Guacamole gets it.
Nonetheless. A leader who could dine on both without suffering indigestion is necessary.
One of the secrets of success for Nelson Rockefeller when he first ran for Governor of New York was that he went out & about from NYC delis to upstate county fairs, eating his way thorough an impressive variety of foodstuffs, from pastrami on rye to deep-fried whatever.
It showed that, though he was scion of one of the wealthiest families in the land, he was at heart (apparently) a regular guy, a true mensch.
And proved Rocky had fortitude, determination and a cast-iron stomach. All important components of modern leadership!
Labour has lost control of Sheffield following a Green and Lib Dem surge.
The Greens made five gains and now have 13 councillors. The Lib Dems took three seats from Labour and now have 29 councillors. Labour is still the largest party, with 41 seats, but that is two short of the majority needed to rule outright. The council is now in no overall control.
The Greens have been nibbling away at Labour’s majority for several years, capitalising on a row over tree felling, which saw one Green councillor prosecuted by the council for her role in protests. Alison Teale was later cleared of all charges. The Greens also received a massive popularity boost thanks to the highly charismatic Magid Magid, a young refugee who made headlines around the world when he became Sheffield’s Lord Mayor and later Green MEP for Yorkshire.
The Scottish Conservatives expect to lose their Edinburgh Central seat to the SNP after record numbers of voters turned out to vote in the Scottish capital, PA Media reports
The Scottish Conservatives expect to lose their Edinburgh Central seat to the SNP after record numbers of voters turned out to vote in the Scottish capital, PA Media reports
The Scottish Conservatives expect to lose their Edinburgh Central seat to the SNP after record numbers of voters turned out to vote in the Scottish capital, PA Media reports
I'm sure we had an anecdote to the contrary earlier.
The SNP's narrow gain in the Ayr seat means that the party has secured its second gain among the nine opposition-held marginal seats, six of which the SNP need to get an overall majority.
So far it looks as though the SNP is achieving the small swing that it needs to pick up the crucial marginal seats.
Labour has lost control of Sheffield following a Green and Lib Dem surge.
The Greens made five gains and now have 13 councillors. The Lib Dems took three seats from Labour and now have 29 councillors. Labour is still the largest party, with 41 seats, but that is two short of the majority needed to rule outright. The council is now in no overall control.
The Greens have been nibbling away at Labour’s majority for several years, capitalising on a row over tree felling, which saw one Green councillor prosecuted by the council for her role in protests. Alison Teale was later cleared of all charges. The Greens also received a massive popularity boost thanks to the highly charismatic Magid Magid, a young refugee who made headlines around the world when he became Sheffield’s Lord Mayor and later Green MEP for Yorkshire.
Perhaps it would be better for everyone if the entryists from Momentum decided to do their impression of the Borg of Star Trek fame with the Green party?
On topic: My feeling is Starmer will fight the GE as Labour leader but I can't say I'm that sure about it. A bad bad day.
As for "it’s almost as if backers of the former leader (JC) are delighted that LAB has done so badly", there's a reason why it looks like that. They are. Many of them are over the fucking moon about it.
And this is no different to how the Blairite Right of the party rooted (indeed worked) for Labour to lose badly under JC at GE17 (disappointed!) and at GE19 (bingo!).
Lab doing very well in Wales and Con pretty poorly.
One has to wonder whether all the publicity that the pandemic has given to party leaders has had an effect? It is a bit like having regular party political broadcasts. The vaccine will have magnified this effect even further
On topic: My feeling is Starmer will fight the GE as Labour leader but I can't say I'm that sure about it. A bad bad day.
As for "it’s almost as if backers of the former leader (JC) are delighted that LAB has done so badly", there's a reason why it looks like that. They are. Many of them are over the fucking moon about it.
And this is no different to how the Blairite Right of the party rooted (indeed worked) for Labour to lose badly under JC at GE17 (disappointed!) and at GE19 (bingo!).
#morethatdivides
In the case of at least one Corbynista earlier, not so much over the moon as bending over and mooning by displaying they’re arses.
Labour has lost control of Sheffield following a Green and Lib Dem surge.
The Greens made five gains and now have 13 councillors. The Lib Dems took three seats from Labour and now have 29 councillors. Labour is still the largest party, with 41 seats, but that is two short of the majority needed to rule outright. The council is now in no overall control.
The Greens have been nibbling away at Labour’s majority for several years, capitalising on a row over tree felling, which saw one Green councillor prosecuted by the council for her role in protests. Alison Teale was later cleared of all charges. The Greens also received a massive popularity boost thanks to the highly charismatic Magid Magid, a young refugee who made headlines around the world when he became Sheffield’s Lord Mayor and later Green MEP for Yorkshire.
Perhaps it would be better for everyone if the entryists from Momentum decided to do their impression of the Borg of Star Trek fame with the Green party?
It might sometime turn out to be easier for everyone if two Left-inclined parties - Left-Labour and the Greens, and two centreish-inclined left parties, Right-Labour and the Liberal Democrats, finally saw if they could win by a pact coalescing around PR. Starmer should be given a good run yet to try and hold the Labour party together first, though, I think.
Lab doing very well in Wales and Con pretty poorly.
One has to wonder whether all the publicity that the pandemic has given to party leaders has had an effect? It is a bit like having regular party political broadcasts. The vaccine will have magnified this effect even further
Edit: I of course meant the leaders who are in power
Labour has lost control of Sheffield following a Green and Lib Dem surge.
The Greens made five gains and now have 13 councillors. The Lib Dems took three seats from Labour and now have 29 councillors. Labour is still the largest party, with 41 seats, but that is two short of the majority needed to rule outright. The council is now in no overall control.
The Greens have been nibbling away at Labour’s majority for several years, capitalising on a row over tree felling, which saw one Green councillor prosecuted by the council for her role in protests. Alison Teale was later cleared of all charges. The Greens also received a massive popularity boost thanks to the highly charismatic Magid Magid, a young refugee who made headlines around the world when he became Sheffield’s Lord Mayor and later Green MEP for Yorkshire.
Perhaps it would be better for everyone if the entryists from Momentum decided to do their impression of the Borg of Star Trek fame with the Green party?
NOOO
I’ve switched over to the green team because, at least in my part of the West Midlands, they’re NOT nutters.
They’re fiscally sensible, socially liberal pro-hs2 ex-Lib Dems, on the whole.
Philip Sim @BBCPhilipSim · 33m SNP have held Rutherglen, which was at one point talked up by Labour as a possibility - means Clare Haughey will be returned to Holyrood, while James Kelly is likely out (being fifth on Labour's Glasgow list)
(not he who must not be named,. but the Labour spokeesman for ...)
On topic: My feeling is Starmer will fight the GE as Labour leader but I can't say I'm that sure about it. A bad bad day.
As for "it’s almost as if backers of the former leader (JC) are delighted that LAB has done so badly", there's a reason why it looks like that. They are. Many of them are over the fucking moon about it.
And this is no different to how the Blairite Right of the party rooted (indeed worked) for Labour to lose badly under JC at GE17 (disappointed!) and at GE19 (bingo!).
#morethatdivides
A total disaster that doesn't cost that much is the best sort of total disasters. Starmer has been lucky to that extent.
Labour has lost control of Sheffield following a Green and Lib Dem surge.
The Greens made five gains and now have 13 councillors. The Lib Dems took three seats from Labour and now have 29 councillors. Labour is still the largest party, with 41 seats, but that is two short of the majority needed to rule outright. The council is now in no overall control.
The Greens have been nibbling away at Labour’s majority for several years, capitalising on a row over tree felling, which saw one Green councillor prosecuted by the council for her role in protests. Alison Teale was later cleared of all charges. The Greens also received a massive popularity boost thanks to the highly charismatic Magid Magid, a young refugee who made headlines around the world when he became Sheffield’s Lord Mayor and later Green MEP for Yorkshire.
Perhaps it would be better for everyone if the entryists from Momentum decided to do their impression of the Borg of Star Trek fame with the Green party?
NOOO
I’ve switched over to the green team because, at least in my part of the West Midlands, they’re NOT nutters.
They’re fiscally sensible, socially liberal pro-hs2 ex-Lib Dems, on the whole.
Labour can keep the corbynistas.
Yep. Let’s hope the Greens and LibDems can hold together with such a slim majority to take the council from Labour
Lab doing very well in Wales and Con pretty poorly.
And Alyn and Deeside.
Labour vote up, albeit Tory vote up by much more.
I think the Starmer is **** narrative is quite rightly gaining traction, particularly with the potential loss of London, is there an Andrew RT Davies is **** narrative on the way, because he really is!
Belay that, the SNP now have 3 target seats in the bag -
Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV · 1m 🚨 STV colleagues reporting that former Westminster leader of SNP @AngusRobertson has taken Edinburgh Central, @RuthDavidsonMSP ’s former seat (she is standing down).
Belay that, the SNP now have 3 target seats in the bag -
Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV · 1m 🚨 STV colleagues reporting that former Westminster leader of SNP @AngusRobertson has taken Edinburgh Central, @RuthDavidsonMSP ’s former seat (she is standing down).
If true, all eyes on Moray, Aberdeenshire West, Eastwood and Dumbarton
It looks like Johnson is doing well in England, Drakeford in Wales, and Sturgeon in Scotland. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this lack of rebelliousness against national leaders.
It looks like Johnson is doing well in England, Drakeford in Wales, and Sturgeon in Scotland. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this lack of rebelliousness against national leaders.
Well, not this set of national leaders, given how shit they are.
Not that Andrew RT Davies or the egregious DRoss are notably better.
Philip Sim @BBCPhilipSim To sub-divide even the top-ten list of marginals, obvs SNP gains in areas where they aren't going to lose list seats as a result are utterly key - so Edinburgh Central, Aberdeenshire West, Eastwood and Dumbarton. The question of a majority could hang chiefly on those four...
Belay that, the SNP now have 3 target seats in the bag -
Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV · 1m 🚨 STV colleagues reporting that former Westminster leader of SNP @AngusRobertson has taken Edinburgh Central, @RuthDavidsonMSP ’s former seat (she is standing down).
If true, all eyes on Moray, Aberdeenshire West, Eastwood and Dumbarton
This is turning out to be far more interesting than I thought. Increased turnout has thrown things into play.
Singapore has hotel quarantine and just announced tightened domestic restrictions because of a small handful of cases, despite decent progress with vaccine. They are still in thrall to zero covid-ism.
Unrelated good news: two-thirds of the adult population of the UK have now had their first Covid jab.
66.6% no less
What will the....errr... religiously interesting types make of that?
And somewhere, the spirit of David Shepherd is lifting a foot.
The elephant and locomotive painter?
I think he means the Test Cricketer turned Bishop of Woolwich, Bishop of Liverpool 1975-1997 and then Labour Life Peer. Spelt Sheppard, though.
Who was quite a politically-engaged Bishop and therefore on-topic.
Did a lot wrt Protestant - Roman-Catholic relations in Liverpool alongside Archbishop Derek Worlock.
Piccie:
He meant David Shepherd the former Gloucestershire cricketer and eccentric umpire. Always stood on one leg for a ‘Nelson’ I.e. three digits the same in the score.
Fascinating results nationally. Scotland not looking quite as promising for those of us who don't want the UK destroyed. If only the Labour and LD unionists had been more prepared to back the Tory unionists an SNP majority might have been averted. Nailed on now surely?
If Brexit didn't quite destroy us, Mad Nicola surely will now.... :-(
Starmer has a year. If it's still dire this time next year he needs to go.
Richard Burgon installing phone lines...
I can't imagine he'd find 20%. The obvious aspirer is Lammy. He's put himself forward for every job in the last ten years. He's also now quite far from his childish former self. I don't think he's brave enough to spark the crisis though.
I think it's Corbyn - I think he'll re-emerge.
Corbyn does have a “king over the water who sensible people in the party despair about making a comeback but holds a grim sway over a lot of the base” feel to him. A bit like Trump.
Singapore has hotel quarantine and just announced tightened domestic restrictions because of a small handful of cases, despite decent progress with vaccine. They are still in thrall to zero covid-ism.
No hotel quarantine on South Sandwich Is. No hotel either.
Singapore has hotel quarantine and just announced tightened domestic restrictions because of a small handful of cases, despite decent progress with vaccine. They are still in thrall to zero covid-ism.
No hotel quarantine on South Sandwich Is. No hotel either.
DIY with whale ribs and plastic sheeting, I believe.
A suggestion about the meaning of the votes so far: These votes enforce two trends
1) The move towards voting for power. Labour doing OK in Wales, SNP slightly on the up in Scotland, Tories doing better in most of England especially where they were already making progress.
In each case the immediate holder of the purse strings and power is consolidating.
Not only is identity politics being enforced, so is pork barrel. Eg in part Hartlepool is saying 'Me Too' about help from the centre - maybe they are looking at Darlington.
2) The move towards opposition between forces. Urban Labour v Tories in the rest, for England. Unionist v Nat in Scotland. And an intensification of Leave v Remain. And a move towards a showdown between the big force where only one winner is possible: Sturgeon v Boris.
Philip Sim @BBCPhilipSim To sub-divide even the top-ten list of marginals, obvs SNP gains in areas where they aren't going to lose list seats as a result are utterly key - so Edinburgh Central, Aberdeenshire West, Eastwood and Dumbarton. The question of a majority could hang chiefly on those four...
Khalid Mahmood is the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr.
"James Forsyth @JGForsyth Khalid Mahmood has resigned from the Labour front bench saying that 'A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party'"
Khalid Mahmood has resigned from the Labour front bench saying that 'A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party'
Sounds like this Labour MP has a firm grasp on the culture war that you keep telling us doesn't exist...
Khalid Mahmood is the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr.
"James Forsyth @JGForsyth Khalid Mahmood has resigned from the Labour front bench saying that 'A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party'"
Fair play to him for having the courage of his convictions
No wonder Grant Shapps didn't read out the full list of 12 countries on the quarantine-free travel 'green list' - it includes Australia and New Zealand, which aren't letting anyone in https://twitter.com/JasonGroves1/status/1390701826211725315
He did say that many weren't letting us in yet.
EU will be very difficult given the EuCo dogma about open borders, and the level of average COVID cases there running at a level we dropped below in *early-mid February* .
I think that Portugal is the interesting one on this list - what are they doing with their Spanish border?
I'd say the next places will be Malta if cases fall, and Canada who are vaccinating like gangbusters.
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Gonna give up both for a while, I think.
https://twitter.com/alexmassie/status/1390706575988363268?s=20
@BallotBoxScot
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4m
SNP GAIN Ayr (South) from Conservative
Siobhan Brown defeats Conservative MSP John Scott, who is too far down the list to be re-elected now. A narrow margin of just 170 votes.
Seems like they'd make more money at Wembley than anywhere else in Europe, as well.
@BallotBoxScot
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59s
Ayr (South) Constituency Vote:
SNP ~ 18881 (43.5%, +2.4)
Conservative ~ 18711 (43.1%, +0.1)
Labour ~ 4766 (11%, -3.1)
Lib Dem ~ 808 (1.9%, nc)
Scotia Future ~ 267 (0.6%, +0.6)
#SP21 #BBS21 http://ballotbox.scot
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that those are two quite anglicised seats?
Looking at Scotland, I see Sarwar got a decent 5% swing against Sturgeon in her constituency. My bet on SNP<70 seats from a tip here is looking safe.
Some of the Welsh results are remarkably good for Labour. I wonder if there's an element of "rewarding the government" in all 3 countries' results as people look forward to ending lockdown.
It showed that, though he was scion of one of the wealthiest families in the land, he was at heart (apparently) a regular guy, a true mensch.
And proved Rocky had fortitude, determination and a cast-iron stomach. All important components of modern leadership!
The Greens made five gains and now have 13 councillors. The Lib Dems took three seats from Labour and now have 29 councillors. Labour is still the largest party, with 41 seats, but that is two short of the majority needed to rule outright. The council is now in no overall control.
The Greens have been nibbling away at Labour’s majority for several years, capitalising on a row over tree felling, which saw one Green councillor prosecuted by the council for her role in protests. Alison Teale was later cleared of all charges. The Greens also received a massive popularity boost thanks to the highly charismatic Magid Magid, a young refugee who made headlines around the world when he became Sheffield’s Lord Mayor and later Green MEP for Yorkshire.
Edit to add: Israel is to open up to fully vaccinated travellers later this month
Lab doing very well in Wales and Con pretty poorly.
@BallotBoxScot
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2m
Conservative HOLD Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire (South)
Rachael Hamilton re-elected.
Labour vote up, albeit Tory vote up by much more.
And Singapore.
And that's it.
Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert
The SNP's narrow gain in the Ayr seat means that the party has secured its second gain among the nine opposition-held marginal seats, six of which the SNP need to get an overall majority.
So far it looks as though the SNP is achieving the small swing that it needs to pick up the crucial marginal seats.
Trumpsky is the leading exception. Gee, wonder why??????
And even he & his minions did better than expected, or (IMHO) warranted.
(just tried to post this quoting Nick P below, but got error message saying "one character too short". ?????)
As for "it’s almost as if backers of the former leader (JC) are delighted that LAB has done so badly", there's a reason why it looks like that. They are. Many of them are over the fucking moon about it.
And this is no different to how the Blairite Right of the party rooted (indeed worked) for Labour to lose badly under JC at GE17 (disappointed!) and at GE19 (bingo!).
#morethatdivides
I’ve switched over to the green team because, at least in my part of the West Midlands, they’re NOT nutters.
They’re fiscally sensible, socially liberal pro-hs2 ex-Lib Dems, on the whole.
Labour can keep the corbynistas.
@BBCPhilipSim
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33m
SNP have held Rutherglen, which was at one point talked up by Labour as a possibility - means Clare Haughey will be returned to Holyrood, while James Kelly is likely out (being fifth on Labour's Glasgow list)
(not he who must not be named,. but the Labour spokeesman for ...)
Wales: Con down 10% vs 2019 GE. Lab flat.
We should expect nationally counterintuitive results where there's an unpopular incumbent local council, or other extenuating circumstances.
Rutherglen (Glasgow) Constituency Vote:
SNP ~ 20249 (50.5%, +4.3)
Labour ~ 15083 (37.6%, +2.8)
Conservative ~ 3663 (9.1%, -2.2)
Lib Dem ~ 1112 (2.8%, -4.9)
Note that Labour DID boot Henderson's predecessor as Leader, namely Ramsey Macdonald.
But THAT was a very special case!
Arf.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england
Paul Brand
@PaulBrandITV
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1m
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STV colleagues reporting that former Westminster leader of SNP @AngusRobertson
has taken Edinburgh Central, @RuthDavidsonMSP
’s former seat (she is standing down).
Unfortunately I simply don't have enough data to model it so I'm guessing - I'm inclined to back SNP majority above 2/1 though.
Didn't know Leon was an MP
Surely that should be next week.
Hopeless leader. His interview just now was the pits. Sounded like a Month Python sketch.
Realistically Australia/NZ can't reopen until they have achieved herd immunity through vaccination - which may take a while.
Not that Andrew RT Davies or the egregious DRoss are notably better.
@BBCPhilipSim
To sub-divide even the top-ten list of marginals, obvs SNP gains in areas where they aren't going to lose list seats as a result are utterly key - so Edinburgh Central, Aberdeenshire West, Eastwood and Dumbarton. The question of a majority could hang chiefly on those four...
Struggling to beat the worst Tory Mayoral Candidate ever.
Starmer Out
Who oddly, had about the weight of an elephant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shepherd_(umpire)
If Brexit didn't quite destroy us, Mad Nicola surely will now.... :-(
So these wins will probably have zero actual impact to the final result and I don't know enough about how the list works to make a valid decision.
It is remarkable how well Corbyn did in 2017 and fortunate that 2019 never happened.
1) The move towards voting for power. Labour doing OK in Wales, SNP slightly on the up in Scotland, Tories doing better in most of England especially where they were already making progress.
In each case the immediate holder of the purse strings and power is consolidating.
Not only is identity politics being enforced, so is pork barrel. Eg in part Hartlepool is saying 'Me Too' about help from the centre - maybe they are looking at Darlington.
2) The move towards opposition between forces. Urban Labour v Tories in the rest, for England. Unionist v Nat in Scotland. And an intensification of Leave v Remain. And a move towards a showdown between the big force where only one winner is possible: Sturgeon v Boris.
"James Forsyth
@JGForsyth
Khalid Mahmood has resigned from the Labour front bench saying that 'A London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors, has effectively captured the party'"
Nick Eardley
@nickeardleybbc
Unsurprisingly, half way through the count, sources say Dumbarton “tight
Sounds like this Labour MP has a firm grasp on the culture war that you keep telling us doesn't exist...
But, he banned.
SNP HOLD Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Kate Forbes re-elected as MSP with a majority of +15,000
EU will be very difficult given the EuCo dogma about open borders, and the level of average COVID cases there running at a level we dropped below in *early-mid February* .
I think that Portugal is the interesting one on this list - what are they doing with their Spanish border?
I'd say the next places will be Malta if cases fall, and Canada who are vaccinating like gangbusters.