Posted on 05/05/2023 3:56:27 AM PDT by FarCenter
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results with voters punishing his party over political scandals, sluggish economic growth and high inflation, early results showed on Friday.
While governing parties often struggle at mid-term elections, the council results in England will be the largest, and possibly last, test of voter sentiment before the next general election which is expected to be held in 2024.
The Conservative Party suffered a net loss of 144 seats on local councils that were up for re-election, the early results showed. The main opposition Labour Party, which is hoping to gain hundreds of seats in a mid-term vote, added 96 seats.
The Liberal Democrats had a net gain of 40 seats.
The results will decide more than 8,000 council seats in 230 local government authorities who are responsible for the day-to-day provision of public services such as bin collections and schools.
Huw Merriman, a junior Conservative transport minister, said it had been a "difficult night and it may get more difficult".
John Curtice, Britain's best-known pollster, said based on the results so far, the Conservatives could face a net loss of about 1,000 seats, which would be in line with the party's most pessimistic forecast.
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Don’t they have dominions pilfer vote method yet:
If the damn voters think they have it bad now they ain’t seen nothing yet now that they have elected a bunch of Libs to make things better!! LOL,LOL, LOL
The UK has the same problem at the same time that we do.
And for the same reason.
But we now know about our Deep State.
And we have Trump.
The UK has yet to get the first and doesn’t have the second.
They might not have had a free and fair election.
How can anyone know.
Tories have been in power forever. What do voters have to show for it? People vote when they are not happy. Conservatives have had power even though Muslims have overtaken the place. No wonder they are being kicked to the curb.
Both parties are controlled by the WEF nazis. The current prime minister was installed by a Clause Schwab/ Brussels coup. The continuing objective is disenfranchise the people i.e. totalitarian rule. The present political ‘losses’ is by design.
Well considering that conservatives have won for 40 years and even won Brexit. Suddenly this one election is cheating? Interesting.
We aren’t the only country afflicted with a Deep State, are we?
And there haven’t been any real conservative pols in the UK in decades.
The UK is paying for attempting to Brexit.
We’re paying for electing Trump.
This is going on all over the globe at the same time and for the same reason.
You don’t think Brazil’s election was legit, do you?
SSDD.
Joel Gilbert (maker of the brilliant documentary, “The Trayvon Hoax”), has a new book - “Michelle Obama for President 2024”. here he explains why he believes she will run and what Trump should do to counter her:
VIDEO: 4m56s: OAN: Michelle Obama for President in 2024?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXD24sz2_Hk
From 2015. Note the source. And the timing.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/26/should-britain-introduce-electronic-voting
Also not a coinkydink: That the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 was repealed last year.
The UK Tories ARE a bunch of Libs using the name Conservative. There currently is no right-wing party in the UK.
They appear to use paper ballots and ballot boxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom
Because nobody in their right mind would vote for Sunak and his ilk. Evil, vile demons all of them.
But who counts the ballots and how, eh?
France uses paper ballots, too.
Guess how they’re counted.
I suspect that’s all of the ruling class there by now.
Yes. It is. Look what Boris and the alleged “conservatives” did during Covid. They should ALL be hanging.
You also have to have a photo ID to vote in Britain.
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