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Originally Posted by Damien
The Tories are doing worse today than they did overnight. Now down nearly 300 seats which is putting them at the higher end of bad predictions.
Lib Dems are up over 150.
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… which perhaps gives some useful context to the Tory losses. The Lib Dems aren’t going to form a government in my lifetime. For the Tories to be dislodged those votes have to go to Labour, and they aren’t. Lib Dems are a safe protest vote, especially in council elections.
Of course the Tories have had a kicking - that’s actually what’s meant to happen at mid-term elections. It’s just that the opposition has been so bad for so long that the blue team has had a relatively easy ride recently. Tories mustn’t be complacent off the back of these results but Labour, once it’s finished crowing this evening, really needs to take a good look at itself because it’s not on course for power at this rate.
(Edit) one further observation from today: based on these results, London is now representative of nothing but itself. We should bear that in mind while politicians and journalists who spend most of their time there are telling us what we should think about these results.