Seems ConDems have crashed down south as expected with Labour making pretty big gains. 

Be interesting to see how things pan out in Scotland but presumably given it is STV there won't be any councils where a party has overall control.  Apparently heading for the lowest turnout in years up here but then you'd hardly know there was an election on where I stay.  No posters or billboards and I only got one leaflet through my door which was Tory, which is bizarre given in my ward I'd imagine they'd do well to get even 4th on 1st preference never mind get anywhere near a seat.

 

Don't suppose it means much so far away from a GE but already had Tory MPs demanding Callmedave is more right wing after UKIP success in the south and comedy figure Lebit Opik demanding Nick Clegg resigns as leader of the Lib Dems (but seemingly stay on as Deputy PM).

Also glad to see that so far nobody has voted in favour of Mayors in various English cities. Total waste of time and money and nothing more than a celebrity driven ego trip (see B. Johnston and K. Livingston)

6 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

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Enjoy Little Britain under Farage. 

I don’t think anyone will. Especially the clown shows that voted for him 

Might speed up Little Britains demise though, which I’m all for. We tried doing it the nice way 

2 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

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Enjoy Little Britain under Farage. 

 

You can only enjoy Reform if you voted for them and very few on here, if any, claimed to do that.

A competent Labour leader could have seen off Reform. 

Starmer was a gift for Reform from the off.

The only good thing to come from today is the liklihood of Starmer going. Gives Labour a chance to regroup.

6 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

 

You can only enjoy Reform if you voted for them and very few on here, if any, claimed to do that.

A competent Labour leader could have seen off Reform. 

Starmer was a gift for Reform from the off.

The only good thing to come from today is the liklihood of Starmer going. Gives Labour a chance to regroup.

It’s nothing to do with Starmer. The next Labour leader will get exactly the same treatment, probably even worse treatment if it’s Rayner. 
 

Farage has been normalised by the media. A competent press could have seen him off.  

4D chess from the adults in charge. 

I can say for certain, I have never felt so apathetic about voting ..... yet, acknowledging the duty to 'voice' ..... then i looked at the 'choices' I was presented with ....  

I ended up holding my nose whilst forming one cross on one paper, and going 'what the hell' on my cross on the other.

Disenfranchised or what?

17 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

It’s nothing to do with Starmer. The next Labour leader will get exactly the same treatment, probably even worse treatment if it’s Rayner. 
 

Farage has been normalised by the media. A competent press could have seen him off.  

Farage has also been normalised by Starmer. It’s not as if Nigel doesn’t give the opportunity for folk to dismantle him. His girlfriend buying a house in cash (after what happened to Rayner) the 5m bung, crossing the Atlantic to be meat in the room with a nonce, not doing constituency meetings, not turning up at parliament, the school boy racism, the adult racism…there’s an almost endless list to choose from. 
 

Yes the press by and large ignore it but so does Starmer because he’s trying to win over the same braindead knuckle dragging troglodytes that won’t vote for him in a million years. It’s on him 

28 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

It’s nothing to do with Starmer. 

You really have it bad for him.

Are you a Labour party member?

 

I don't know about England and Wales, but talk of around only 50% of voters in Scotland bothered to vote yesterday.

Can't blame folk for not bothering, the whole game stinks.

7 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

You really have it bad for him.

Are you a Labour party member?

 

I’m not even a Labour voter and didn’t vote for them in the Scottish elections. I’ll happily call out right wing shite when I see it though. 
 

It seems “get Starmer out” is the new “£350m for the NHS”. People have no idea what they are voting for. There was some guy on the radio from Halifax talking about how his new Reform LOCAL councillor was going to stop the boats?!

The boats were easier to stop when we were still in the EU. Still … Farage eh? Likes pint and a cigar. 
 

Clear as day we have some Reform voters on this forum. 

2 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

I’m not even a Labour voter and didn’t vote for them in the Scottish elections. I’ll happily call out right wing shite when I see it though. 
 

It seems “get Starmer out” is the new “£350m for the NHS”. People have no idea what they are voting for. There was some guy on the radio from Halifax talking about how his new Reform LOCAL councillor was going to stop the boats?!

The boats were easier to stop when we were still in the EU. Still … Farage eh? Likes pint and a cigar. 
 

Clear as day we have some Reform voters on this forum. 

We have a Trump fan in our ranks.

Jupiter likely votes Reform, as he is very right wing.

I vote SNP, because the only thing for me is to get away from Westminster rule and would never vote a unionist party.

Starmer is a so out of his depth, it isn't even funny.

It's up to him as Prime Minister to stand up to the right wing, but he has failed on that big time.

 

 

It’s not that he hasn’t stood up against the right, it’s that he actually tries to get them on board 

He’s a wank 

19 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

It’s not that he hasn’t stood up against the right, it’s that he actually tries to get them on board 

To be fair to him, he's not just trying to get them on board, he's actually been successful in getting them on board in his cabinet, e.g. Home Secretary.

4 hours ago, Ajja said:

Huge challenge for Labour but could see the demise of the Tories as a credible party. 

When their posters outside a polling station simply say 'vote for us to stop the SNP' id say they have already lost their credibility.

 

Labour has conceded defeat in Scotland and their Scotland branch office manager, has called on Starmer to step down.

One seat so far in Aberdeen has stayed SNP. 

Not so sure about my own constituency.

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SNP hold Banff and Buchan

Surprised at that one. I honestly though Reform would sneak it.

Two out of three Aberdeen seats stay SNP. Please make it three. I think the Donside could go Reform, but hopefully not. 

Reform not doing too great up here and seem to be taking votes off the Tories primarily and a bit of SNP. 
 

 

Not a great day so far for the Aberdeen branch of Stop the Boats 

A clean sweep in Aberdeen for the SNP.

Vote share down a good bit, but after 20 years in power and helping screw the oil industry, I'd say that is good going.

Fuck Reform.

Greens (Lorna Slater) takes an Edinburgh seat from the SNP. 

 

Labour are taking a hammering in Wales too.

Sad to see a nation that has given us some great Socialist politicians and remained rock solid throughout the miners strike, vote for Reform though.

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Labour are taking a hammering in Wales too.

Sad to see a nation that has given us some great Socialist politicians and remained rock solid throughout the miners strike, vote for Reform though.

What did you expect? The Labour party has abandoned its traditional working class supporters and is now the party of self loathing middle class guardian readers.

 

And by the way , I didn't vote for anybody.

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Labour are taking a hammering in Wales too.

Sad to see a nation that has given us some great Socialist politicians and remained rock solid throughout the miners strike, vote for Reform though.

Just a bunch of bigots in England and Wales these days…
 

Much more encouraging results in Scotland for anyone not wanting Reform although they’ll have presumably got some seats through the list vote.

 

6 minutes ago, Jupiter said:

And by the way , I didn't vote for anybody.

Keep practising on drawing an X and I'm sure one day you'll manage to vote.

 

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On 07/05/2026 at 08:00, Mason89 said:

SNP will fall short of a majority 

Jackie Baillie will lose her seat 

Tories and Labour will become an irrelevance and then come to the conclusion it’s because they weren’t right wing enough 

Scotland, Wales & N. Ireland will be ran by parties that want to break up the Union. England will have an English nationalist party running riot. Unionists won’t give a fuck 

Not sure you’ve got all these right, but will give you the first one and 50% of the third one. 

5 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

Just a bunch of bigots in England and Wales these days…

Too simple min.

They want change and outwith Tory, Labour and the Lib Dems, they only really have Reform.

Depends on your point of view, but at least we have a  less shit alternative up here in the SNP.