County Council Elections

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RE: County Council Elections

(03/05/2013 20:19)wirralbus Wrote:  The one thing that shines out in these results is that the Coalition parties did bad but not devastating bad .

Labour Party managed to just about get back to the position they was in 4 years ago when these County Council and Unitary Authorities where last fought for . There is according to some people in politics a feeling that we will vote for Labour but with Ed Milliband in power .

Conservative Party Grandees must be thinking what have we done to deserve UKIP turning up , remember it was the Eurosceptics in the Conservative that eventually killed off John Major's Government in 1997 and what did we get 13 yrs of Blair / Brown , will this be the same ?

Liberal Democrats now these must be thinking things can only get better , coming 7th in South Shields parlimentary By-Election has to be very painful , of the two coalition parties they seem to have come out of this quite badly , maybe because they have backtracked on so many of there policies to come in line with the Conservative line .

UKIP now where do we go from here , Eastleigh and South Shields have proved that sooner rather than later they will get a big scalp . UKIP seemed to take seats off all parties but most of them did come from dis-satsified Conservative Voters , they now have four years in those council seats to consolidate themselves into a 4th electable party not a fringe one issue party.

I suspect when some of the voters who decided to give Cameron and Gideon a gentle kicking yesterday, actually read some of the UKIP policies other than their Europhobic rants that grab the headlines, they will sit at home at the next general election rather than vote UKIP again.

Good to see the BNP/EDL creatures getting another thorough kicking which will hopefully see them shrivel up and slither back under the stone they came from.