Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Sheilbh]

Not sure about safe - Labour went from 46 seats to 42 with a Lib Dem, Green, Reform divide. I think that this is Newcastle, we're seeing Reform do very well in the North-West, the collapse in London - it's an indictment of their whole project:


No update on my borough as they don't count the council votes until tomorrow. Really dragging out the discomfort for Labour

Watching Southwark closely because I know it well and there's good Labour people there but even aside from Starmer their councillors deserve being voted out. Also very, very pleased to see Carlotta Allum win for the Greens in Brixton. She was subject to an absolutely disgraceful attack by Labour because she had, 30 years ago, a conviction fo drug smuggling. She'd basically been a mule, done her time spent the last 30 years of her life working with rehabilitation and ex-offender charities and frankly is someone I'd far rather be a councillor than someone in their KPMG gilet nominated by the Labour Party. Very pleased that attack didn't work.

Still results to come from London, but interesting comparison of London v non-London results. Everywhere bad for Labour, London a (relative) bright spot for the Tories and slightly better for the Greens and signficantly worse for Reform:


Separately on quite how catastrophically bad the Welsh results are. As one of the Labour MPs noted if the Labour Party started under a Keir it may well end under a Keir as it's tough to see that Senedd result as anything but existential for Labour in the history of the Labour movement (I think Labour did win one seat of three in the former constituency of Nye Bevan and Michael Foot)


Edit: Total side but as someone who particularly disliked Angus Robertson (former SNP leader in Westminster) I quite enjoyed this:

Tom Gordon
@DMScotPol
Angus Robertson's third place thumping in Edinburgh Central not made any easier to bear by presence of giant gannet