Conservatives expect to lose control of all councils
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/30/tories-blame-betting-scandal-local-election-wipeout/
Posted by Fox_9810
Conservatives expect to lose control of all councils
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/30/tories-blame-betting-scandal-local-election-wipeout/
Posted by Fox_9810
20 Comments
For what Boris did to this country, it’s deserved. I’ll never forgive the lot of them
> The party puts the blame in part on the decision to charge a former Tory MP and 15 others with insider betting on the date of the 2024 election – saying that the issue was still coming up on the doorsteps.
If only that these guys didn’t do that, Kemi would be a successful leader.
This is called expectation management.
Make a devastating prediction and then declare victory when the results are merely bad.
They did the exact same thing in the last local elections, though amusingly, they screwed up and ended up doing even worse than their worst-case scenario.
At least we can’t say they couldn’t start a piss up in a brewery.
Hope both Tories and Labour get destroyed at the ballot box.
Blair started it…Passed the baton to Cameron and the rest followed suit.
They betrayed the British public.
They spent the entire run up to these elections bollocking on about trans people, proving they haven’t learned a thing about their trouncing last year. They deserve to be obliterated.
Excuse me while I play the world’s smallest violin
Good. Them and Labour deserve to get decimated after the betrayal of the people.
We need new blood and parties in politics. The status quo just isn’t working.
The ‘Local’ Tory candidate lived so far away he barely counted. Wasn’t so much a writing in candidate as a semaphore candidate.
Greens will get in here, because they keep doing shit like sorting out parking problems, looking after the green spaces and supporting community projects that make everything just that little bit nicer. Unlike the Tories who dress and act as if they are interviewing for a job managing their dad’s firm, and then vanish immediately upon election, only to emerge when a planning issue affects one of their friends.
Good news. The quicker these cunts are consigned to the history books the better.
This is just the Telegraph rag preparing to announce “Tories kit being completely doped out is a tally a stunning rightwing victory and Starmer is the real loser” or some other bollicks.
Tonight will be the first indication the Conservatives are basically already dead. There would have been some boomers who flinched and voted Tory out of pure muscle memory but I doubt it was many.
There are a lot of “shy reform” voters out there I’d imagine as well.
That would be catastrophic for the party. In my view having a council cohort to show your local activists that they can achieve things is important to keeping activists engaged. If you’re only involved on the sidelines at a local level, I think activists will be less likely to turn up and the whole machine will suffer.
Meanwhile local Reform activists will be on the up, in high spirits and annoyingly smug.
As long as Labour gets out of my town I’ll be happy. They’ve been in power for decades now and it’s only gone down hill.
This is doom-mongering to make the results seem better than they will be, Buckinghamshire will NEVER flip away from Tories
Good, now they are out lets keep them out for as long as possible if not for good or theyll undo all the progress they can while pocketing as much money as they can at the same time like they always do.
Tory by name tory by nature (tory is an insult that dates back to the 16th century given to british conservatives by the irish, it means by definition, liar, thief, plunderer, yobbo and barbarian, a 500 year old insult whuch still applies to them today.) Millenials, and genz have only known the damage caused by the tory dictatorship while they were pandering to the generation that screwed younger generations over, we saw, we suffered, we learnt, now we teach our kids the dangers of tory dictatorship not with what we felt but the documented proof of the lies and deaths they caused while they partied, “let the bodies pile up in the thousands” and they then killed more brits than the blitz did due to TORY POLICY.
They didnt future proof their political strategies and now they are so rightfully suffering for it, only a fool or a rich person would support the tories and newsflash, very very few of the younger generations will ever be rich thanks to the right wing.
Lets make it so they arent one of the main two political parties and that will send a shockwave around the world that theyll never forget.
I may have been stupid enough to make mistakes in my life but i can proudly say ive never been stupid enough to vote for a tory
I really wish we had some hope after the last 25 years. It just seems to be more incompetence.
Deserved, but to be replaced with some reform UK fuck wits is a fate constants don’t deserve,even if they voted for them
Uhh yeah no shit all the Tories have ditched to Reform. Kemi is… Kind of part of the issue. You have a non-native “British” black woman whining about losing British culture and immigrants LMFAO.
Hopefully Reform gets in and we start sinking boats and deporting people. I care about nothing else when I walk through what was a peaceful quiet town only to be met with hordes of migrants.
Before you start tearing up, seethe harder redditors, keep ignoring the problem and let’s see what really happens later
Not many things in politics make me joyous these days but the Tories being on course to lose *538* seats absolutely does. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer party.
Labour might even hang on to Runcorn too.