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If the Tories lose only half their seats they'll be doing well.
I'd love it if they lost and became a 3rd party
Can't see it happening. We are likely the closest we have ever been since labour became a main party.
But non of the current smaller parties is growing in popularity.
Labour isn't actually popular though, it's just the conservatives that are unpopular.
So due to FPTP voting, many will vote for the party most likely to beat CON there. So you will probably see a lot of Lib Dems (conservatives lite edition) and some regional/single issue/independents win seats too.
Seriously everyone should look up tactical voting and just vote for whoever will get the Tories out. I'm honestly not that bothered who gets in other than not the Tories and obviously not UKIP wannabes, Reform.
Agreed on labours standing.
But it is possible we will see some differences in 3rd party voting. Compared to past ones.
The tories being in the low 20s. May mean tactical voting is less important to unhappy Labour voters. As tories winning if folks don't support Labour is less of a threat.
But many angry and loyal tory voters. May be thinking more about weakening Labour tactically.
Don't worry labour will find a way ti snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Au contraire...
They want to lose them so that the Starmfurher has to do unpopular things to counter all the seeds of disaster already sown, so that in 5 years time the Tories will be back in for the foreseeable future. You read it here first.
Tel Aviv Keith Starmfurher
The old 2 party loop
Only half? Shame. Anything less than total extinction will be a disappointment.
Garbage replacing garbage.
Yeah let's not do anything, that's the spirit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senior Tories are braced for a catastrophic set of local elections that will see a collapse in council seats won at the peak of the “vaccine bounce” enjoyed by Boris Johnson.
Rishi Sunak’s allies regard the results as the most dangerous moment remaining for the prime minister before the general election.
Sunak, under pressure to explain how he would pay for his pledge to abolish national insurance contributions by the end of the next parliament, has expanded on the measures in the budget by announcing that he is preparing a new benefits squeeze to fund it.
At that point, Johnson’s government was enjoying a boost in popularity as a result of the Covid vaccine rollout, while Keir Starmer was on the verge of resigning after losing the Hartlepool byelection.
The poll slump means that May’s results are likely to be dire for the Tories, with some experts predicting the party could lose as many as half of its councillors up for re-election.
Party officials accept that the results will probably be bleak but are already pouring all their efforts into a push for a general election most likely to be held in the autumn.
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