2024 local elections

[gavreid]

Surely Coventry is Labour

"Labour have increased their majority on Coventry City Council after this year’s local elections. The party held 11 of their seats and won three from the opposition Conservative group.

It means they now have 39 seats on the authority out of 54..."

Coventry local election 2024 results in full as Labour increase majority

Labour now hold 39 out of 54 seats on Coventry City Council

www.coventrytelegraph.net

 

[hifinutt]

Full recount for West Mids mayor, would be a shame to see the back of another Tory tosser.

to be fair matt , he is absolutely brilliant imho . made a bit of a mistake trying to combine the police and crime commissioner role with the mayor but that got sorted

 

[hifinutt]

Parker ahead in Birmingham vote​

We've had the results from the Birmingham count in the West Midlands mayoral election - it's another clear win for Richard Parker, but he's down on 2021.
He received 80,251 votes to Andy Street's 66,296.
And the independent, Akhmed Yakoob, picked up 42,923 votes.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

That’s pretty good polling for a tiger!

 

[Nick_G]

My wife is watching Sadiq Khan's speech now. Hall is standing behind him with a face that could curdle milk at ten paces. It's wonderful to watch.

 

[paulfromcamden]

Astonished to see the Britain First mayoral candidate behaving like a total prick.

Sadiq Khan heckled by Britain First candidate just moments into victory speech

Sadiq Khan only managed to say ‘Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you London’ before an outbreak of boos from the crowd

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Tony L]

The boos in the crowd were from Britain First leader and convicted thug Paul Golding:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786818166770778161

Exactly the behaviour one would expect from him and his far-right terrorist party.

Paul Golding - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Minio]

Good to see Khan win out against the barrage of negative press that has railed against him in recent years.

 

[Sonority]

"The results are in after the recount in Coventry and now Andy Street is just 11,455 votes ahead of Labour with one authority left to declare in the West Midlands mayor result.

In Coventry, Richard Parker took 32,704 votes, while Street got 23,327 – a big increase for Labour in what was last time a close call between the two parties.

But Labour still need to make up just over 11,000 votes in Sandwell, where the independent candidate, pro-Palestine lawyer Akhmed Yakoob, could have taken some of their vote share."

The stance on Gaza may well cost labour dear.

 

[Dave H.]

"The results are in after the recount in Coventry and now Andy Street is just 11,455 votes ahead of Labour with one authority left to declare in the West Midlands mayor result.

In Coventry, Richard Parker took 32,704 votes, while Street got 23,327 – a big increase for Labour in what was last time a close call between the two parties.

But Labour still need to make up just over 11,000 votes in Sandwell, where the independent candidate, pro-Palestine lawyer Akhmed Yakoob, could have taken some of their vote share."

The stance on Gaza may well cost labour dear.

Thanks for the update.

I may sound like a weird wonk saying it, but it’s a fascinating thing to see playing out.

 

[Sonority]

And Labour appear to have won - amazing.

 

[Barrymagrec]

Astonished to see the Britain First mayoral candidate behaving like a total prick.

Sadiq Khan heckled by Britain First candidate just moments into victory speech

Sadiq Khan only managed to say ‘Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you London’ before an outbreak of boos from the crowd

www.standard.co.uk

It`a pretty bad but I`m not astonished - he had just been beaten by Lord Binface after all.

 

[Tony L]

It`a pretty bad but I`m not astonished - he had just been beaten by Lord Binface after all.

The voters decisively chose Ceefax over racism.

 

[Sonority]

Sushi will be annoyed at standing down his helicopter trip to Brum then.

 

[hifinutt]

Absolutely unbelievable ....labour have been a disaster to birmingham causing bankruptsy , what a nightmare to get them in as a mayor ...words fail me

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Absolutely unbelievable ....labour have been a disaster to birmingham causing bankruptsy , what a nightmare to get them in as a mayor ...words fail me

No they haven’t. Tory government starving local government, especially Labour controlled local government, is the source of most problems.

 

[Bob McC]

Absolutely unbelievable ....labour have been a disaster to birmingham causing bankruptsy , what a nightmare to get them in as a mayor ...words fail me

None so blind as those who will not see eh?

 

[Nick_G]

None so blind as those who will not see eh?

Blinded by the Endarkenment...

 

[notaclue]

Time for Sunak (the unelected, petulant billionaire) to resign, new Tory leader and once in place, go to the country for a new mandate...

...which they won't get cos Britain wants a Labour government.

 

[paulfromcamden]

London Assembly results are in. Exactly the same as 2021 except one Tory seat is replaced by (ugh..) Reform.