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‘I can’t spake’ lives rent free in my head alongside a few select other lines of commentary.
How could I forget Chizzy? One of the better players never to have won a big title although he has come close on many occasions. I imagine he’s made a solid enough living though.
Absolutely dreadful individual, that’s honestly the only thing I remember him for. They always used to make any excuse to show that clip on Have I Got News For You.
As a darts fan I can’t let mention of St Helens pass without noting that it is also the hometown of former world champion and winner of that leg Michael Smith. Sadly his form has dropped off a cliff since as a result of arthritis.
Obviously Starmer hasn’t done a particularly good job to say the least and his position is all but untenable. I don’t think he’s a bad person, he’s just made some very bad decisions.
That said, are people really going to come back to Labour in their droves if someone else comes in? It’s got to be worth a try of course but the right will hammer whoever it is because they want their people in charge. They are quite happy to ignore or excuse the same or worse transgressions than Labour figures have committed when it’s their own lot doing it.
Do let us know how it goes Homer. Won’t be long until you start having by-elections when they find out what being a local councillor is actually like and quit.
One thing Labour should be congratulated on is the action they have taken to eliminate ‘family voting’. Given that it was apparently rampant at the recent Westminster by-election but we haven’t heard of a single instance of it on Thursday, whatever they have done clearly worked.
Reform, despite pretending otherwise, is essentially a continuity UKIP/Brexit Party (essentially a Farage vehicle, I guarantee that some who voted for them will be confused as to why he’s not PM now) with the dregs of the Tories thrown in for good measure. Many of the problems they whine about can be traced directly back to their current MPs one way or another. They are firmly part of the Establishment that they claim to be against.
The Greens are picking up the left wing voters abandoned by Labour and the Lib Dems are a good fit for the the ‘one nation’ Tories similarly abandoned by their party. Both abandoning (some of) their base in pursuit of people that will never vote for them, or at least never will again.
On Manchester, the time for Burnham to return to Westminster was the last General Election. There’s no guarantees anywhere now and it’ll reek of a stitch up. He seems a decent enough bloke but trying to parachute him in as a PM replacement now is desperate. Perhaps a different story had he already been there.
And what lovely people they are putting up for election in the Liverpool area too. Remember, antisemitism is exclusively a left wing thing.
One of the Reform candidates claimed to be from UKIP. A Freudian slip if ever I heard one.
Sophie Raworth asking Yvette Cooper how Labour have become so unpopular only two years after a landslide victory in the General Election. It seems to have escaped her attention the party got 33% of the vote on a 60% turnout. It was never that popular anyway.
This is the same media, yes that includes Raworth’s employer, that is treating Reform as the second coming based on polling numbers in the mid to high 20s. As I have said before, the simple fact is that no one party is particularly popular.
Labour needs to bring in PR for the next election. I actually think they’d end up with more seats than FPTP if they did that given how low they have sunk. If that lands us a disastrous Reform/Tory coalition then sobeit. They’ll fight like rats in a sack.
Is the idea of staggered elections to keep some continuity? Running a council isn’t easy and perhaps potentially replacing the entire thing in one go is problematic? Can’t imagine replacing competent councillors with a bunch of the local headbangers who signed up to Reform because they thought the boats needed to be stopped from coming to their landlocked county in the midlands is a good idea.
Doesn’t explain why London boroughs have all their seats up at once though.
As I understand it, there is local government reorganisation (simplification?) due soon so some of those voting now will also be doing so again once it happens.
‘Speak to agent’ sometimes works against the AI bots, otherwise you just have to confuse it with nonsensical responses until it gives in and sends you to a human.
Silence and/or not responding to ‘press x for y’ tends to work against the automated phone menus.
Some sections? Large amounts of it I’d say. As far as I can tell, around 5,000 seats were up from a total of about 18,000-19,000. Even I would have put it over 30% and I was well aware many areas weren’t voting, including where I am.
Welsh and Scottish results of more importance being for their respective devolved parliaments.
Clearly not looking good for Labour and that’s highly unlikely to change but the fact is all the results were decided at 10pm last night. Naturally, results are drip fed throughout the night and today so any idea of momentum that the media likes to talk about is an entirely false narrative to give them something to fill time with.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/07/parties-election-climate-abuse-campaign-trail
This doesn’t surprise me, now if only we could find those responsible.
Pointless analysing anything at this stage. We’re talking about partial results from a limited number of seats up for grabs. Even once we get full results, we’re still only talking about a subsection of the electorate, albeit a reasonably large one.
The numbers behind the overall seat distribution will be key. Almost certain to confirm that we have a highly fragmented electorate, one thing which probably can be projected nationwide. Turnout could also be interesting.
Hours of yawn-inducing blather extrapolating these local results to the next general election will hit the airwaves on Friday. Think I’ll go for a long walk.
Today has been a welcome relief from endless wanging on about the elections. Apparently less than a third of English seats will have been announced by morning and some counting may take until Saturday. I’d take a tent if I were you.
Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK.When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
— Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T15:26:33.904Z
Now imagine someone in Labour or the Greens said that.
Thought this was going to be another politics thread.
It’s worth it for them because they know it’ll cost less paying out the few who query it, most people will just roll over.
