Tuesday 15 October 2024

TOON TUESDAY #27

The past week marked the first 100 days of Keir Starmer's government and it was commemorated by several cartoonists with abject mockery.  We can only hope that Peter Brookes can perfect a half decent depiction of Starmer before the end of his premiership...

Christian Adams for The Evening Standard
Morten Morland for The Times
Peter Brookes for The Sunday Times

LABOUR'S MUSK BOYCOTT

Labour ministers have faced awkward questions over their apparent snub of Elon Musk from the UK government's recent investment summit.  Responding to BBC claims that Musk was not invited because of his political views, Keir Starmer said he would 'welcome' any UK investment from the world's richest man.  So why was he not invited this year?

Peter Kyle did his best to explain away Musk's absence by way of saying the summit was for existing and potential investors only, albeit Musk had been invited to last year's event (under the Tory government).  Musk has since stated that he is happy to invest in the UK, but it appears that mocking our hapless Prime Minister on X and endorsing Donald Trump gets you frozen out.

Jonathan Reynolds faired far worse in a Sky News interview with Trevor Phillips.  The Business Secretary repeatedly dodged the question and ended up humiliating himself as Phillips persisted to the point of exasperation.

Watch below.


Labour's Musk snub will surely come back to bite them, as will their pathetic school playground stances against Donald Trump during his presidency.  If Trump returns to the White House, which is currently more likely than not, there will surely be some humble pie for various Labour politicians now in government.  Our current Foreign Secretary repeatedly insulted President Trump, labelling him a 'neo-Nazi sympathiser' and a 'sociopath' amongst other things.  Here's to Dave eating that humble pie...

Monday 14 October 2024

MEME MONDAY #8

We had two very popular memes this past week, one mocking Dave Lammy over his hilarious Mastermind appearance and another featuring Labour backbencher Gareth Snell who pledged in 2017 to vote against any removal of winter fuel allowance and then this year did the opposite.

On Saturday we had the audacity to mock the latest meeting between Starmer and Zelenskyy, leading to accusations in the comments that we were 'Kremlin trolls' and 'Putin/Hitler apologists' etc.  No, we just don't appreciate billions of pounds being poured into a foreign conflict that does not concern us - at a time in which we have our own domestic problems...

Mon 7 Oct - 848 Facebook shares
Tues 8 Oct - 444 shares
Tues 8 Oct - 89 shares
Wed 9 Oct - 968 shares
Thurs 10 Oct - 197 shares
Sat 12 Oct - 113 shares
Sat 12 Oct - 64 shares
Sun 13 Oct - 133 shares

Sunday 13 October 2024

SOCIALISM: A SCARY STORY

A video critique of socialism, featuring a well spoken attractive lady, went viral on various social media platforms earlier this year.  The video originated on TikTok and was copied to other platforms with no credit, the only clue to her identity being the name of a now deleted TikTok account - 'Rebecca Paul in Surrey'.  We can now reveal that she is none other than the Conservative MP for Reigate, Rebecca Paul.

The one and a half minute video can be seen below.


The story she tells is nothing new, having first appeared online around 2009 and revisited many times over ever since.  Paul's version is no different, in fact she has read one of the most popular versions word for word, adding only the line at the very end: "And that is socialism my friends, a race to the bottom."

Paul made the video before she was elected as an MP in July, having posted it to TikTok last year.  However, it later mysteriously disappeared from her TikTok account and it is not clear whether she removed it or the communist censors based in China.  Her account has since disappeared altogether, again no clue as to why.

Is it acceptable to criticise socialism in today's left-leaning non-conservative party?

We reached out to Ms Paul in an email last week, but have had no response as yet.

Tory MP Rebecca Paul pictured earlier this year

Friday 11 October 2024

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 10.10.24


There were a whopping 20 council seats up for grabs on Thursday, over half of which Labour were defending.  The Labour vote was down in all but two of the seats they contested.  In four seats the Labour vote was down by over 20 per cent and they lost four of the eleven seats they were defending.  The Tories took two of those seats, while the Greens and Lib Dems took one each.

The Conservatives also gained an additional three seats, two of which from independents and one from the Lib Dems.

St Michael's, Coventry City Council

Lab: 899 (49.1%) -20.7%
TUS: 327 (17.9%) +4.2%
WPB: 212 (11.6%) New
Con: 145 (7.9%) -2.0%
Grn: 86 (5.2%) -1.4%
Ind: 94 (5.1%) -0.1%
LDm: 57 (3.1%) -1.0%

Lab HOLD

Hanger Hill, Ealing London Borough Council

LDm: 1,655 (52.3%) +19.3%
Con: 814 (25.7%) -5.1%
Lab: 315 (10.0%) -13.3%
Grn: 245 (7.7%) -5.1%
Ref: 98 (3.1%) New
WPB: 35 (1.1%) New

LDm HOLD

Northolt Mandeville, Ealing London Borough Council

Lab: 1,126 (44.7%) -10.3%
Con:730  (29.0%) +2.5%
Ref: 271 (10.8%) New
Grn: 199 (7.9%) -3.9%
LDm: 114 (4.5%) -2.2%
WPB: 90 (3.2%) New

Lab HOLD

South Acton, Ealing London Borough Council

Lab: 1,009 (48.5%) -1.2%
Con: 303 (14.6%) -0.9%
Grn: 287 (13.8%) -6.1%
LDm: 208 (10.0%) -1.8%
Ref: 159 (7.6%) New
Ind: 65 (3.1%) New
WPB: 32 (1.5%) New
TUS: 18 (0.9%) -0.3%

Lab HOLD

Hersham Village, Elmbridge Borough Council

Con: 1,029 (55.4%) +11.0%
LDm: 736 (39.6%) -5.5%
Lab: 94 (5.1%) -5.5%

Con GAIN from LDm

Weybridge St George's Hill, Elmbridge Borough Council

Con: 608 (46.0%) -5.5%
Ind: 598 (45.2%) +9.3%
Grn: 116 (8.8%) New

Con HOLD

Warton, Fylde Borough Council

Con: 351 (51.2%) +20.2%
Ind: 223 (32.5%) New
Lab: 78 (11.4%) -16.7%
Grn: 34 (5.0%) New

Con GAIN from Ind

Little Parndon & Town Centre, Harlow District Council

Lab: 511 (50.2%) -9.2%
Con: 227 (22.3%) -8.0%
Ref: 201 (19.7%) New
Grn: 56 (5.5%) -4.9%
UKIP: 23 (2.3%) New

Lab HOLD

Farnley & Wortley, Leeds City Council

Grn: 1,450 (38.7%) +4.7%
Lab: 965 (25.8%) -22.2%
Ref: 912 (24.4%) New
Con: 202 (5.4%) -12.5%
LDm: 118 (3.2%) New
Ind: 70 (1.9%) New
SDP: 26 (0.7%) -0.9%

Grn GAIN from Lab

Wivelsfield, Lewes District Council

Grn: 315 (42.3%) -10.3%
LDm: 216 (29.0%) +18.2%
Con: 213 (28.6%) -7.9%

Grn HOLD

Clay Cross North, North East Derbyshire District Council

Con: 624 (51.0%) +10.1%
Lab: 356 (29.1%) -21.2%
LDm: 175 (14.3%) +5.5%
Grn: 69 (5.6%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Fortissat, North Lanarkshire Council

(first preference votes)

Lab: 807 (36.6%) +0.1%
Ind: 529 (24.0%) New
SNP: 447 (20.3%) -10.6%
BUP: 241 (10.9%) -7.9%
Con: 124 (5.6%) -5.6%
LDm: 57 (2.6%) New

Lab HOLD (stage TBC)

Mossend & Holytown, North Lanarkshire Council

(first preferences votes)

Lab: 616 (36.5%) -2.9%
SNP: 586 (34.8%) -7.8%
Ref: 263 (15.6%) New
Con: 127 (7.5%) -5.3%
LDm: 83 (4.9%) New
UKIP: 11 (0.7%) New

Lab HOLD (elected at stage 5)

Burton & Broughton, North Northamptonshire Council

Con: 939 (46.4)% -2.8%
Grn: 489 (24.2%) -7.9%
LDm: 337 (16.6%) -12.7%
Lab: 260 (12.8%) -16.5%

Con HOLD

The Havens, Pembrokeshire County Council

Con: 365 (49.1%) +7.8%
Ind: 201 (27.0%) New
LDm: 145 (18.1%) New
Ind: 43 (5.8%) New

Con GAIN from Ind

Addlestone South, Runnymede Borough Council

Con: 520 (55.9%) +11.6%
Lab: 262 (28.2%) +3.5%
LDm: 83 (9.1%) New
Grn: 43 (6.8%) -6.0%

Con HOLD

Shirley, Southampton City Council

LDm: 1,249 (39.2%) +25.6%
Con: 770 (24.2%) -4.4%
Lab: 764 (24.0%) -19.5%
Grn: 241 (7.6%) -4.7%
Ind: 117 (3.7%) New
TUS: 44 (1.4%) New

LDm GAIN from Lab

Bamber Bridge West, South Ribble Borough Council

Lab: 253 (44.8%) -21.6%
Con: 186 (32.9%) -0.7%
LDm: 126 (22.3%) New

Lab HOLD

Hoxne & Eye, Suffolk County Council

Con: 895 (45.3%) +0.3%
Grn: 891 (45.1%) New
LDm: 102 (5.2%) -14.0%
Lab: 89 (4.5%) -10.4%

Con HOLD

Heene, Worthing Borough Council

Con: 742 (42.1%) +6.6%
Lab: 704 (39.9%) -13.6%
Grn: 186 (10.5%) -0.5%
LDm: 132 (7.5%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour
TUS = Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition
WPB = Workers Party of Britain
Con = Conservative
Grn = Green
LDm = Liberal Democrat
Ref = Reform UK
UKIP = United Kingdom Independence Party
SDP = Social Democratic Party
SNP = Scottish National Party
BUP = British Unionist Party
Ind = Independents and local groups

Wednesday 9 October 2024

SHOCK AS CLEVERLY FALLS

After storming into an impressive lead in yesterday's ballot of Tory MPs, James Cleverly has today been sensationally knocked out of the leadership contest.

Following yesterday's ballot, in which he surged from third to first place with a lead of eight, Cleverly was installed as the new bookie's favourite.  This was also in light of a membership poll, which favoured Cleverly over the remaining candidates.  However, in today's vote he actually lost a couple of backers, while all of Tom Tugendhat's 20 votes went to Badenoch and Jenrick.

It was Badenoch who surged from third to first today, and she will now face Robert Jenrick in the final round.  The party membership finally get to have their say at the end of the month, with the result announced on November 2.  The bookies now have Kemi odds on to win.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #1

Quite often in the past we've been faced with the question: "What has this got to do with Labour".  This question is generally posed in response to a meme, with little understanding that we may have perhaps expanded our horizons over almost a decade in being - our list of grievances can be found in social media descriptions and cover photos.

Therefore, in addition to Meme Mondays and Toon Tuesdays, we have added Woke Wednesdays to our roster of regular features.  The Wednesday meme will not be Labour-specific, but will be from the Clown World that leftists and globalists are only too happy to endorse.

Star Wars was a groundbreaking film in 1977, with amazing special effects that have stood the test of time.  The premise was a simple good versus evil battle across the galaxy, featuring an array of memorable characters.  Luke, Han, Leia and Obi-Wan were joined by furry ally Chewbacca and a couple of entertaining androids.  The cast would expand in two glorious sequels to include legendary beings such as Master Yoda and Jabba the Hut.  Luke Skywalker's journey across the trilogy, bridged by the revelation in part two (or part five, as they were retrospectively framed) that Darth Vader is his father, formed a sci-fi fairytale that will remain an all-time classic of seldom equal.

The franchise remained untouched for almost twenty years, until director George Lucas returned to deliver a CGI mess of not-so-memorable characters, poor casting, dreadful acting, and a story that was predictable and dull.  However, there was much worse to come.  Much, much worse.

In 2012 Disney bought the franchise and over the course of the next decade proceeded to destroy Star Wars, rubbishing its original cast of characters and gradually discarding storytelling in favour of DEI-LGBT-woke propaganda.  Disney has done a similar job with the Marvel properties it owns and will next year release a multi-cultural woke version of Snow White, in which Snow White is not so white.

Tuesday 8 October 2024

TUGENTWAT OUT

The dreadful Tom Tugendhat is the latest candidate to be knocked out of the Tory leadership contest.  MPs vote today and tomorrow in order to whittle down the list to a pair of finallists.

Kemi Badenoch slipped to third place, just one vote behind Robert Jenrick, while James Cleverly has stormed into an impressive lead.  One of the three will be drop out after tomorrow's vote and then party members will finally get a chance to vote.


It's now hard to bet against Cleverly making the final two, while Jenrick's consistent lead in earlier ballots may come to nothing if Badenoch gains votes tomorrow.  The outcome hinges on how Tugendhat's 20 backers vote...

TOON TUESDAY #26

The Tory leadership hopefuls will be whittled down to two over the next couple of days, so this week we're featuring a selection of toons from the course of the campaign so far...

Steve Bright for The Sun
Morten Morland for The Times
Steve Bright for The Sun
Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post
Dave Brown for The Independent
Chris Riddell for The Guardian
Peter Brookes for The Times

Monday 7 October 2024

MEME MONDAY #7

It was a slow news week by comparison to previous weeks, so we chose to give an old comedy double act some exposure - two Corbyn memes and half an Abbott to be precise.  Enjoy...

Mon 30 Sept - 117 shares
Wed 2 Oct - 165 shares
Wed 3 Oct - 49 shares - Skinner's forename is misspelt here, primarily
because Karl referred to his X account when compiling this meme,
 where his name is oddly ascribed with just one 'n'
Thurs 4 Oct - 229 shares
Sat 6 Oct - 569 shares
Sat 6 Oct - 219 shares
Sun 7 Oct - 275 shares
Sun 7 Oct - 84 shares

Sunday 6 October 2024

CHARITY CASE WES

As Labour gathered for its conference last month, the freebies scandal was in full flow and there were plenty of awkward questions being asked of ministers.  Starmer said he'd done nothing wrong and refused to apologise when questioned by Nick Ferrari, while Rachel Reeves flapped and failed in a tense exchange with Susanna Reid.  However, it was the eminently more polished Wes Streeting who delivered the most elaborate defence of what amounts to corruption.

When asked by a BBC reporter about the scandal, Streeting's absurd response heaped praise on donors and compared their 'noble' actions to giving towards a charity.  OK Wes, but since when do charities perform favours in return for money?  The reporter then challenged him to declare that receipt of Taylor Swift concert tickets was a 'noble cause'.  Streeting's reply was so cocky and tone deaf it fully justified the contempt with which politicians are held by ordinary folk.  He joked that 'Keir would shake it off', referencing one of Taylor Swift's hits, before launching into an attack on the BBC as if to say that an institutionally left-wing broadcaster should be laying off a Labour government.

Watch below.


Later on, Streeting was interviewed at more length and repeated his argument that the alternative to donations was for taxpayers to fund political parties.  Now donating to political parties is one thing, but donating to individuals is another entirely.  In any case, MPs are afforded huge salaries and benefits that are subsidised by the taxpayer - we already fund politics Wes!  If you're a government minister earning upwards of £100,000, you can afford to buy your own clothes, concert tickets, holiday accommodation and so on.  The fact that Streeting and some of his colleagues can't appreciate public anger adds insult to injury.

He was also pressed on some of the large sums he'd registered as private donations himself, including one for £10,000.  All the bravado and levity visibly drained from his face as the reporter reeled off a list of donations, none of which were registered alongside any description as to what they were for.  There was no mention of charity this time, but there was no humility either.

Watch below.

Friday 4 October 2024

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 03.10.24


Four contests this week and three Labour defences - all lost.

Labour were defending two seats in Lancashire and lost both with huge swings to Reform in Blackpool and the Greens in Lancaster.  In Dundee, Labour narrowly lost to the SNP in a tight race, while the SNP held a seat in a second ward.

Marton, Blackpool Council

Ref: 462 (38.8%) +29.3%
Lab: 334 (28.0%) -23.0%
Con: 254 (21.3%) -18.2%
Ind: 84 (7.0%) New
LDm: 33 (2.8%) New
Grn: 25 (2.1%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Lochee, Dundee City Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 1,203 (37.3%) -5.9%
Lab: 1,148 (35.6%) -0.2%
Con: 219 (6.8%) -1.6%
Alb: 178 (5.5%) +2.4%
Grn: 176 (5.5%) +1.3%
LDm: 156 (4.8%) +1.7%
WPB: 143 (4.4%) New

SNP GAIN from Lab (elected at stage 7)

Strathmartine, Dundee City Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 1,188 (35.0%) -10.3%
LDm: 912 (26.9%) +8.2%
Lab: 911 (26.9%) +4.0%
Con: 143 (4.2%) -1.7%
Grn: 121 (3.6%) +0.2%
TUS: 116 (3.4%) +2.7%

SNP HOLD (elected at stage 6)

Scotforth East, Lancaster City Council

Grn: 623 (57.8%) +22.7%
Lab: 242 (22.4%) -18.2%
Con: 148 (13.7%) -4.8%
LDm: 66 (6.1%) +0.3%

Grn GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Ref = Reform UK
Lab = Labour
Con = Conservative
LDm = Liberal Democrat
Grn = Green
SNP = Scottish National Party
Alb = Alba
WPB = Workers Party of Britain
TUS = Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition
Ind = Independent

Tuesday 1 October 2024

TOON TUESDAY #25

Starmergeddon continues this week with a threesome...

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Steven Camley for The Herald

Monday 30 September 2024

MEME MONDAY #6

The Labour conference wasn't a total disaster, but it couldn't distract anyone outside the hall from the disasters that continue to befall the party.  Starmer's sausage gaffe overshadowed his keynote speech and that is all it will be remembered for.  Duffield's resignation a few days later summed up another dreadful week for the PM, who declared that his lack of popularity is of no concern to him.  A PM who cares not for the popularity of his leadership and policies is destined to be very unpopular indeed...

Mon 23 Sept - 315 shares
Tue 24 Sept - 235 shares
Wed 25 Sept - 194 shares
Thurs 26 Sept - 172 shares
Fri 27 Sept - 82 shares
Fri 27 Sept - 119 shares
Sat 28 Sept - 182 shares
Sun 29 Sept - 153 shares

DUFFIELD'S RESIGNATION IN FULL


Rosie Duffield quit Labour over the weekend with a scathing rebuke for Keir Starmer and his government.  The MP had been unhappy for some time, stemming largely from the abuse and threats she has received due to her support for women's rights in the face of the trans agenda.  She abstained in the recent winter fuel vote and referred to that policy decision in her lengthy resignation letter, which can be read in full below.

"Dear Sir Keir,

Usually letters like this begin, "It is with a heavy heart..." Mine has been increasingly heavy and conflicted and has longed for a degree of relief. I can no longer stay a Labour MP under your management of the party, and this letter is my notice that I wish to resign the Labour Party whip with immediate effect.

Although many "last straws" have led to my decision, my reason for leaving now is the programme of policies you seem determined to stick to, however unpopular they are with the electorate and your own MPs.

You repeat often that you will make the "tough decisions" and that the country is "all in this together". But those decisions do not directly affect any one of us in Parliament. They are cruel and unnecessary, and affect hundreds of thousands of our poorest, most vulnerable constituents.

This is not what I was elected to do. It is not even wise politics, and it certainly is not "the politics of service".

I did not vote for you to lead our party for reasons I won't describe in detail here. But, as someone elevated immediately to a shadow cabinet position without following the usual path of honing your political skills on the backbenches, you had very little previous political footprint. It was therefore unclear what your political passions, drive or direction might be as the leader of the Labour Party, a large movement of people united by a desire for social justice and support for those most in need.

You also made the choice not to speak up once about the Labour Party's problems with antisemitism during your time in the shadow cabinet, leaving that to backbenchers, including new MPs such as me.

Since you took office as Leader of the Opposition you have used various heavy-handed management tactics but have never shown what most experienced backbenchers would recognise as true or inspiring leadership.

You have never regularly engaged with your own backbench MPs, many of whom have been in Parliament far longer than you, and some of whom served in the previous Labour government.

You have chosen neither to seek our individual political opinions, nor learn about our constituency experiences, nor our specific or collective areas of political knowledge. We

clearly have nothing you deem to be of value.

Your promotion of those with no proven political skills and no previous parliamentary experience but who happen to be related to those close to you, or even each other, is frankly embarrassing.

In particular, the recent treatment of Diane Abbott, now Mother of the House, was deeply shameful and led to comments from voters across the political spectrum. A woman of her political stature and place in history is deserving of respect and support, regardless of political differences.

As Prime Minister, your managerial and technocratic approach, and lack of basic politics and political instincts, have come crashing down on us as a party after we worked so hard, promised so much, and waited a long fourteen years to be mandated by the British public to return to power.

Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous. I cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.

How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate's sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?! The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.

Someone with far-above-average wealth choosing to keep the Conservatives' two-child limit to benefit payments which entrenches children in poverty, while inexplicably accepting expensive personal gifts of designer suits and glasses costing more than most of those people can grasp - this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour Prime Minister. Forcing a vote to make many older people iller and colder while you and your favourite colleagues enjoy free family trips to events most people would have to save hard for - why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment or remorse?

I now have no confidence in your commitment to deliver the so-called "change" you promised during the General Election campaign and the changes we have been striving for as a political party for over a decade.

My values are those of a democratic socialist Labour Party and I have been elected three times to act on those values on behalf of my constituents. Canterbury made history when its voters elected their first woman, and only non-Conservative, MP since the seat was created in the thirteenth century.

My constituents elected an independent-minded MP who vowed to put constituency before party, and to keep tackling the issues that most affect us here - Brexit fallout, funding for our universities, our desperately struggling East Kent NHS, dire housing situation, repeated sewage pollution and protecting our vital green spaces.

I am confident that I can continue to do so as an independent MP guided by my core Labour values.

Sadly, the Labour Party has never shown any interest in my wonderful constituency in the seven years that I have been in Parliament. But I am proud of my community and will continue to serve them to the best of my ability.

My constituents care deeply about social issues such as child poverty and helping those who cannot help themselves. I will continue to uphold those values as I pledged to do when I first stood before them for election in 2017.

As someone who joined a trade union in my first job, at seventeen, Labour has always been my natural political home. I was elected as a single mum, a former teaching assistant in receipt of tax credits. The Labour Party was formed to speak for those of us without a voice, and I stood for election partly because I saw decisions about the lives of those like me being made in Westminster by only the most privileged few. Right now, I cannot look my constituents in the eye and tell them that anything has changed. I hope to be able to return to the party in the future, when it again resembles the party I love, putting the needs of the many before the greed of the few.

Yours sincerely,

Rosie Duffield MP

Duffield has been the MP for Canterbury since 2017, having increased her majority at each subsequent general election.  She will now sit as an independent.

Friday 27 September 2024

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 26.09.24


Rhyl Trellewelyn, Denbighshire County Council

Con: 188 (51.4%) +33.8%
Lab: 127 (34.7%) -5.5%
Plaid: 36 (8.7%) -3.9%
LDm: 19 (5.2%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

Stretton, East Staffordshire Borough Council

Con: 1,012 (70.8%) +25.3%
Lab: 304 (21.3%) -9.8%
Grn: 113 (7.9%) New

Con HOLD

Credenhill, Herefordshire Council

Ind: 201 (33.8%) New
Ind: 150 (25.3%) New
Con: 108 (18.2%) -20.5%
Ref: 89 (15.0%) New
LDm: 27 (4.5%) -12.7%
Lab: 19 (3.2%) New

Ind GAIN from Ind

Cromarty Firth, Highland Council (two seats)

(first preference votes)

LDm: 481 (20.3%) -7.6%
SNP: 403 (17.0%) -2.2%
Ind: 326 (13.7%) New
Ind: 323 (13.6%) New
Ind: 285 (12.0%) New
Ind: 162 (6.8%) New
Ind: 97 (4.1%) New
Grn: 89 (3.7%) +0.9%
Lab: 77 (3.2%) -0.9%
Con: 57 (2.4%) -4.3%
Ref (2): 52 & 23 (3.2%) New

LDm HOLD (elected at stage 11)
Ind GAIN from Ind (elected at stage 11)

Inverness Central, Highland Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 551 (31.8%) -9.5%
Lab: 479 (27.7%) +3.6%
LDm: 286 (16.5%) +10.1%
Grn: 158 (9.1%) +1.7%
Con: 150 (8.7%) -4.1%
Ref:  (5.4%) New

Lab HOLD (elected at stage 6)

Barnfield, Luton Borough Council

LDm: 1,169 (63.5%) +11.4%
Lab: 321 (17.4%) 18.8%
Con: 209 (11.4%) -0.3%
Grn: 110 (6.0% New
Ind: 32 (1.7%) New

LDm HOLD

Wigmore, Luton Borough Council

LDm: 749 (54.6%) -28.2%
Ind: 209 (15.2%) New
Con: 151 (11.0%) New
Lab: 137 (10.0%) -7.1%
Grn: 125 (9.1%) New

LDm HOLD

Perth City North, Perth & Kinross Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 917 (44.7%) +10.5%
Lab: 313 (15.3%) -0.1%
Con: 296 (14.4%) -5.1%
Ref: 209 (10.2%) New
Alb: 133 (6.5%) +4.3%
LDm: 95 (4.6%) +0.4%
Grn: 87 (4.2%) +0.8%

SNP GAIN from Lab (elected at stage 5)

Strathallan, Perth & Kinross Council

(first preference votes)

Con: 1,045 (32.1%) -14.6%
LDm: 978 (30.0%) +18.6%
SNP: 568 (17.4%) -17.5%
Lab: 366 (11.2%) New
Ref: 194 (6.0%) New
Grn: 107 (3.3%) -3.7%

LDm GAIN from Con (elected at stage 6)

Thurston, Mid Suffolk District Council (held on Tuesday)

Con: 579 (49.2%) +18.9%
Grn: 518 (44.0%) -10.6%
Lab: 79 (6.7%) -0.2%

Con GAIN from Grn

Godalming Binscombe and Charterhouse, Waverley Borough Council (held on Tuesday)

Con: 725 (40.6%) +19.7%
LDm: 714 (40.0%) +10.7%
Grn: 195 (10.9%) -16.3%
Lab: 151 (8.5%) -14.1%

Con GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative
Lab = Labour
Plaid = Plaid Cymru
LDm = Liberal Democrat
Grn = Green
Ref = Reform UK
SNP = Scottish National Party
Alb = Alba
Ind = Independents

Wednesday 25 September 2024

SAUSAGE MEMES

When Keir Starmer leaves Downing Street for the final time, wouldn't it be wonderful if he were to remembered purely for sausages?  Of course there is far worse to come from the PM than a mere Biden-esque gaffe, but we'll enjoy the moment with a selection of sausage-themed memes currently flooding the internet...