[Macros]

If anything more brexit

[worry]

What exactly are councils? Like a tier of government below the city level?

[amphibian]

 Macros, on 08 May 2026 - 05:21 PM, said:

Sweet fuck have labour shit the bed, from supermajority to this.

Really hope the 3 councils Greens have won so far absolutely kill it performance wise to contrast with the inevitable reform corruption and fuck up

Starmer has been nearly as bad as Truss and Sunak. Just baffling levels of "what a shithead" and I hope Labour absolutely shanks him to irrelevance.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 08 May 2026 - 10:44 PM

[Maark Abbott]

amphibian, on 08 May 2026 - 10:44 PM, said:

Macros, on 08 May 2026 - 05:21 PM, said:

Sweet fuck have labour shit the bed, from supermajority to this.

Really hope the 3 councils Greens have won so far absolutely kill it performance wise to contrast with the inevitable reform corruption and fuck up

Starmer has been nearly as bad as Truss and Sunak. Just baffling levels of "what a shithead" and I hope Labour absolutely shanks him to irrelevance.

Nah, not even close.

He is definitely a wanker and I will not dispute that but his government have actually made progress. Granted, progress held up to some degree by him being a bellend, but he has not been nearly as catastrophic as Truss, or as brazenly corrupt as Sunak.

Where his major fuckup is seems to lie in attempting to pander to the hard right. He went after pensioners, he further alienated the party's voterbase and then he decided to demonise protests against genocide. Despite this, somehow still not as awful as the two before him.

Worry - councils are local government here. Some deal with cities, some with towns, some with areas, but functionally they're kinda the same - local issues like school funding, roads, that kinda thing. Usually a party will have a view on how to run towns. Reform's only view and policy is 'brown people scary' so they'll proceed to fuck everything up for the councils they control (like mine).

[Tiste Simeon]

Maark is 100% right. There's lots that Starmer has done that I can agree with (compared with almost zero things the Tories did in 14 years that I approved of...)

But his weird obsession with sucking up to Israel and criminalising hundreds of OAPs amongst others because they stand for Palestine is pretty horrifying.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

I was away for the weekend and did my best to not go down the rabbit hole of the local elections, but as others have said upthread, it's depressing but ever so predictably so.

Our incumbent Lib Dem councillor kept his seat, so locally I'm pleased as they seem to be a general force for good in the area - and boy do they take abuse from those of the Reform persuasion on an almost daily basis whenever they try and engage. We had an "asylum hotel" protest just down the road from us for a hotel which hasn't been used to house asylum seekers for a number of years and in fact currently housed women and children fleeing domestic violence. The councillors absolutely no nonsense stance of calling out racism for what it is was very impressive and I think they handled it very well.

I just hope this happening three years ahead of a potential GE is enough time for Reform to mess up catastrophically - but given how many of their voters don't seem to understand the difference between local and general elections in the first place, it feels like a slim hope at the moment.

I caught the quote by the Reform councillor in Sunderland about melting Nigerians to fill the potholes and actually concluded hopefully that it was a caricature. Finding out otherwise was probably the cherry on top of a very depressing cake. This country has normalised hatred and abhorrent behaviour by those in politics to such a level I don't see a way back for the foreseeable future at least.

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