Local election results

Pacifico

UKIP didn't stand in most places hence they were going to lose seats whatever happened. A lot of their councilors became Independents and are amongst the 'others' who had a very good night.

IronGiant

Hopefully it will be in in daylight - I couldnt see what was happening most of the time in the Battle of the Long Night.  

crashcris

Edit:  2 threads merged  (This is best continued in the Local elections thread in the P&E sub forum...  Thanks.)

Over by there

LOL, I'm always sticking stuff in the wrong place. Feel free to move it. Thanks.

domtheone

Now -778

Edit. They will have to alter the scale to make the difference not look so bad on the BBC graphic.

richp007

BBC saying -848 now

nheather

Friday just keeps getting better!

Over by there

Everyone brace yourself for some big council tax hikes next April

Cheers,

Nigel

weaviemx5

Fair point about Conservative still being the majority, but to compare them against Lib Dems, yesterday they had nearly 7x more seats so only having just over 2x today (at the moment at least) is still a huge swing in politics.

                                                                       

mitchec1

In Thanet early indications is the old Ukip vote is going to Labour.

But with 30% turn out compared to 71% four years ago its poor.

Most round here are waiting for May 23rd