UK local elections, May 2018

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The Greens have had a surprisingly good night.

I would instinctively have thought that Corbynism would kill them off, but anecdotally it does seem that they have a fairly decent appeal to a lot people who are very much not Labour/Corbyn supporters.

I'd guess those Greens are Labour/Corbyn supporters in general elections, same as many of the Lib Dems.

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Just reading through some of the media headlines, and some of the articles are again trying to smear Corbyn.

To the best i can tell, Labour retained a hold on 74 councils, and got 77 councillors elected, as well as holding on to the mayoralties up for election and their vote shot up by 8%. Meanwhile, the Tories have lost control of 3 councils and 33 of their councillors are fresh out of a job.

How exactly was it a bad night for Labour? Yes they did fall short of expectations, but so did May last year.

Tyranny of expectations, and yes the media also victimised Theresa May for the entire second half of 2017. But also, the performance was not consistent with a Labour overall majority.

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Hounslow is my favourite borough map tbh. Wonder what the difference between Chiswick and the rest of the borough is?

Hounslow and Haringey largely reflect ethnic bloc voting by the White British minority. And also, see above, esp for Hounslow in the last 30 years, hugely so.