Last thursday was a good day for Conservatives. The party held two Council seats and won one from the Lib Dems. Reform won one from Labour. These were seats in what has often been Conservative territory, but the results were good with a poor showing for the two left of centre parties.
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March 30, 2026
Wait till May 7th and the predicted bloodbath. Starmergeddon has said he won’t resign if liebour are wiped out. That’s good, he’s the best recruiter for Reform.
March 30, 2026
38 Days and counting to watch the liebour party implode and hopefully the demise of this far left socialist government tic toc
March 30, 2026
@Ian Wragg – 2TK is supported by the majority in Parliament, they have no other choice. His ‘Plan’ of destroy, destroy, destroy is what they have agreed on. Local elections have no bearing on that. Here in the UK Local Councils are told what they can and cannot do, and handed their wages by Parliament, so what ever the vote its of no consequence. Can you imaging this massive majority in Parliament that are working against the nation and its people would vote for themselves to have a general election? The UK doesn’t not allow regular general elections as expected from a democracy, that would mean a confirmation on the direction that Parliament is taking us.
Love them or hate them, the USA as a democracy would have had 3 elections for their House of Representatives before we see our next one.
March 30, 2026
There are 121 Labour MPs, including 2TK and most of the cabinet, who admit to being members of the Fabian Society, whose core beliefs are greater equality of power, wealth, and opportunity; citizenship, liberty, and human rights; and multilateral international cooperation. Everything Labour does is to work to achieve these goals. No wonder the country is in such a mess.
March 30, 2026
and does the Society also believe in reaching for its beliefs by destroying economies and plunging citizens’ human rights, liberties and opportunities into chaos?
March 30, 2026
Let’s hope your contention that the Conservative wins do represent a push back against the left……
KB needs to declare Net Zero is cancelled then she would recover some traditional Conservative supporters.
March 30, 2026
I could support Kemi Badenoch – she has been doing a very good job of holding Labour to account.
I’m still concerned that the left wing of the Tories is as dominant as ever, and I’d like the Tories to admit not just that they had lost their way since Thatcher but were pursuing internationalist labour style policies which were destructive.
And yes, we should leave the ECHR – let’s see how many of her back benchers will agree to that.
After labour failed to even suggest or include many things in their manifesto that they pursued with vigour after getting the key to #0 I for one will be taking a closer look at election manifestos for all leading parties at the next GE.
March 31, 2026
I suggest you listen to the debate between David Starkey and Jeremy Hunt. He, Hunt, is one reason why I will never trust (or vote) for the Tories again.
Don’t forget, in addition over 6 years as Sec of State for Health when he utterly failed to prepare the NHS to cope with a bad ‘flu year, he also wanted “real, Chinese-style restrictions, imposed on us” …. presumably including welding people into their homes.
He bragged about entering the Treasury as Chancellor with no economic experience whatsoever, and then letting the Brownite, lefty Treasury officials flood the country with 3rd world immigrants …. to avoid inflation.
Reply Jeremy Hunt is not in the Shadow Cabinet. Conservative party policy on energy, the economy and migration is now very different to his and Sunak’s policies which I did not support and led me to stand down from being an MP
March 30, 2026
I know Reform and Tories said there will be no pack in the coming local and national elections I do think they are going to have to come to terms on this issue that they will have to do a deal or we are faced with another socialist government again along with the not so Green Party which would totally make us close to a third world country if not already, so we can only hope there is some sort of back room negotiation going on to save Great Britain from the hard leftists that are trying to run it now
March 31, 2026
Moslems are so horrified by the Green Party fandango in Trafalgar Square that the Greens are about to explode into 3 desperate groups. The original Environmentalists, the Islamic Party and the ‘Rainbow sector’.
March 30, 2026
Unfortunately, with the best will in the world it hard to tell what the outcome would be in a general election. With the up-and-coming local elections even then the results there would do nothing more than confuse the picture, at best all that can be expected is a protest vote against the establishment. As a protest vote you finish up with the crowd that lays low and when they do get involved say what ever needs to be said in that one constituency – I am of course meaning the crowd that calls itself the Liberal Democrats. So far overall the LibDems appear to have done better than the so-called established crowd
Why do I say that? The established teams are spending so much time and effort slagging of the ‘Reform’ thinking that’s where their base is moving, forgetting that they are highlighting what they have themselves got wrong. If they are causing hesitation the voter is still not clamouring to them. Did the voters of Gorton and Denton really want the ‘Greens’ or just none of the ‘others’ no one even now knows what the ‘Greens’ mean.
Here in Wokingham, generations of a really good Conservative Council and Conservative MP both fulfilling their jobs exceptionally well – wiped out as if they never existed. The place is now a mess, literally, dirty streets no services just a defunct failing area. I always think the signs as you enter the borough suggesting something in bloom or other, should read ‘tomorrows slum today’.
March 30, 2026
My Conservative Council in Hillingdon does as good as job as they can, although 5% increase in Council tax this year does given me pension expense concerns.
I will be voting on local issues on 7 May.
March 30, 2026
Although I am not a LibDem, I do find LibDem Peer Mark Pack’s reporting on council by elections useful.
The Tories managed to win three local by-elections last week. They took Stanford from the LibDems, which seems to be because a large percentage switched from LibDems to Reform. They held on in two, but were down 21% in Sevenoaks and 20% in Axholme.
Reform won Brumby from Labour with 52%.
The rolling total for the year is:
Reform + 69
LibDems + 20
Cons – 24
Labour – 53
https://www.markpack.org.uk/174682/council-by-election-results-scorecard-2025-2026/
March 30, 2026
A little bit of good news, but lets wait until the May elections to see whether the UK voters are really prepared to vote for change.
March 31, 2026
Oh it will be anybody but Labour. The other dustbin votes are not to be interpreted as support.
The crunch will be at the General Election when Restore Britain will field a full complement of high quality candidates, with Policies that we have dreamed of since 1990.
March 30, 2026
For me local elections are about local policy not national. What’s happening regarding things like speeding social housing plus others. I need a local councillor that is going to take action on local items.
March 30, 2026
Do you think the Conservatives have yet been forgiven for the tremendous failures of the last 5 years of their term in office? I don’t hear much apologising to go with the new better policies. I was visited by a local LibDem member who asked me why I would expect different results in the future from a Surrey Council if Conservatives are elected when they had put the council in huge debt in the past 20 years of running the Council. I think he was referring to the stupid investments in commercial property by at least two boroughs in Surrey. Hard to answer. Have Conservatives actually learned the lessons? Of course the other question is whether LIbDems or Reform have better plans. So far no question they don’t but it still leaves a doubt that needs to be answered.
March 30, 2026
‘Better the Devil you know’, eh? Well it is still the Devil, be warned.
A leopard never changes its spots….
A definition of madness: If you repeat the same process over and over and expect a different outcome.
March 30, 2026
I see the chancellor has promised to subsidise public electric car chargers to the tune of half a billion quid, because the private operators cannot make them pay.
What a great use of public money.
March 31, 2026
What is she going to use for energy?
March 31, 2026
I am very impressed by the Reform lead Durham County Council. The individuals involved that I have consulted are high quality, interested, capable and committed. Indeed the Durham County Council Team are of a better quality than the National leadership.