Local Elections took place across England yesterday and the results have sent a very clear message to the parties supporting Brexit with the Conservatives, Labour and UKIP all losing a significant number of council seats to Lib Dems, Greens & Independents.
Political commentators are suggesting that the results show that people just want the main parties to get on with Brexit, which is quite a far fetched interpretation to say the least. Obviously UKIPs considerable losses are enough to make that very clear.
Even Tory Chairman, Brandon Lewis, in an interview with BBC, wrongly suggested that “People just want us to get on with getting Brexit done”.
Labour’s John McDonnell was also quick to jump onto this misleading bandwagon…
Since the results started coming through the #remainbacklash hashtag started trending on twitter and the true picture across the country started to become clear.
At time of publication the Conservatives had seen a loss of 396 councillors with Labour losing 81 and UKIP seeing 54 of its councillors leaving their cushy jobs.
The majority of the gains were made by the Lib Dems, with 271 new Lib Dem councillors, followed by 224 independents and 36 new Green councillors.
Why the political commentators would interpret this in any other way is absolutely anyone’s guess, but one thing is for sure. While people will understand that politicians spin such results to match their party line, the same people will not fall for journalists mispresenting these outcomes and the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg would do well to understand that.
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The Brexit Party didn’t stand in the UK council elections.
And UKIP lost out so badly because it’s become an overtly racist party, aligning with the thug Tommy Robinson.
Independents did well, arguably because British people are sick of party politics, broken promises, and sham democracy in name only, unless Brexit is actually delivered.
Arguably the Tories did badly because they’ve thus far failed to deliver on Brexit
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All parties in support of Brexit lost out (Tories, Labour, UKIP). Parties in support of Remain have gained (LibDems mostly). It really is that straight forward.
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I didn’t say that The Brexit Party stood in council elections.
Your comment regarding Tommy Robinson, however, is valid. Securing only 2.2% in the European elections was a clear message that his views are not welcome.
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