Booking the removals van??

I expected a much larger Reform majority in the current climate.

An 18% swing and overturning a 14'500 majority not good enough for you then?

An 18% swing and overturning a 14'500 majority not good enough for you then?

Starmer's saving grace is that the rest of the cabinet are just as bad and there's no obvious popular successor. Nevertheless I think that neither of the two traditional parties leaders will contest the next election. I reckon Badenoch is a dead duck already. She's performed pretty poorly against so many open goals and up against an awful prime minister who makes John Major look like an oratory legend.

Jenrick will come in and do better but he's starting from a very very low point. Reform might not win the next election outright but they will hold the balance of power.

An 18% swing and overturning a 14'500 majority not good enough for you then?

i expected a bigger majority myself, but 6 is as good as 6,000 for the lass that got elected.

We now have a Reform U.K. councillor Amanda Knapper representing the Throston ward, she has at also stood for the Veterans and Peoples party in the Victoria Ward, Reform in Hart and Burn Valley, and in the last G.E. You can’t fault her for effort but what will she bring to the Council being the sole member of Reform on the Council and does she actually live in Throston ?

Reform will now have to manage the councils they run without dropping clangers. Being a 'protest vote' party is one thing but doing the job and running services might be quite another thing. The Tories look dead and buried for now and its hard to see who they rally around. Labour has not delivered and is running out of time and ideas. The Lib Dems have not made the progress I expected and the 'not Tory' vote has gone to Reform. At least we're not the US of A!

Starmer on tv today Lieing again.
Saying wages are going up faster /above prices.

UTR.

You’re right there Kev, my bill increases are bigger than my state pension increase…..

You seem very keen to put the boot in Jamie, but why are you bothered, you don’t even live here
Are you implying that only the big Party’s with their lap dog Councillors should be allowed to represent a ward.
Plenty of independents did a good job, down the years, …or is it because it’s Reform.
Your spite is showing.

Starmer on tv today Lieing again.
Saying wages are going up faster /above prices.

UTR.

I was complimenting her on her effort to become a Councillor Snowy not putting the boot in, typical Snowy comment more so if any other member posted this you would have ignored my comment, your the spiteful one Snowy putting the boot into me at every turn.

My arse you were complimenting her….You have form, that’s why. So cut out the tedious self pity music hall routine you put on when you get rumbled…dump the faux outraged victim routine…… According to your thought process only the big boys votes are worth anything…. .



Why am I bothered Snowy,I am a U.K citizen and I pay Income tax therefore I have a right to an opinion to the goings on whether it be about Hartlepool or the U.K.

You call my town a shithole yet you’re on here every day extolling the glorious life you lead on the the other side of the world in you oriental Butlins setting….so why not absorb yourself in what’s going on in fantasy land where happiness reigns all the year round.


I am not a fan of Reform run by millionaires whose monetary policies figures don’t add up and Farage comments about privatising the NHS. Farage says he is “open to anything” when it comes to replacing Britain’s NHS with “an insurance-based model” similar to the U.S

I think it’s easy to work out you have a fanatical obsession bordering on paranoia with Farage…..your self assembly economics is flogging old rumours that’s never been actually confirmed by anyone on the principle that if you repeat nonsense long enough it becomes fact…..er, just exactly how do they finance health care in your tower block penthouse on fantasy island bu the way…not that I really care………on the bright side though, these results must be short circuiting a few fuse boards in you cranium…don’t look at the Durham County results…Labour were annihilated by guess who………you picked a winner in Starmer Jamie……cue ranting, vehement denial that you are not a fan, never heard of Starmer and never rated him in the first place…then go looking for your Farage punch bag. Doll.
Oh this is sooooo funny .

What amuses me is the mainstream media saying the Labour losses are to do with the winter fuel allowance and benefit cuts. No mention of the key reason which is the illegals and how lovingly they are catered for. For example Serco trying to hoover up private lettings by guaranteeing five years rent will be paid as well as utility bills. So tax payers money is being used to price ordinary British people out of the rental market so the illegals can be housed. Absolutely fookin disgraceful but barely a mention from the mainstream media. Who could possibly vote Labour in the light of all this?

I think we could all have predicted the results although I am surprised at how many losses the Conservatives had. It’s always mentioned Council elections aren’t an indicator as there is usually a low turnout. Hopefully it will give Labour a kick up the butt but they have such a large majority I can’t see nought changing in the next 4 years.

This wasn't any old Council election though, this turned into a Referendum on the Labour Party, and the people have let Labour know, unless they buck their ideas up, then Reform could well win the next General Election. Things could now get even worse before they get better, with Rookie Reform councillors all over the gaffe, learning on the job, that could now turn local politics, certainly in the short term, into the same shitshow as politics at national level. In football terms, it could be like Pools playing their Youth team in the National League.