Medway Council.

[Radio Man]

Gone to the party that prioritises wokeism over workers, asylum seekers over services, and poofs over potholes.

We're doomed.

[Julian Macassey]

Dear gutless coward, we don't give a f*ck.

[Colin Bignell]

You probably won't like the results of the next General Election then.

[Jethro_uk]

How dare you object to the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Dare I ask some context? Not everybody is on right wing dark web sites.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

totly

[Spike]

Going by the results to hand, the Conservatives have done less badly than they feared, and Labour hasn’t done as well as expected. Although it will be dressed up as a victory for the latter party, it really isn’t that good a result for them.

[Colin Bignell]

However, Labour is around 15 points ahead of the Conservatives in the polls. So, it doesn't look to be a question of whether Labour will win the next general election but by how much.

[Roger Hayter]

I dare say you may have missed an element of sarcasm here.

[Roger Hayter]

And it is just a possiblity that the original "Radio Man" post was a parody rather than an expression of opinion.

[Ottavio Caruso]

So what have I missed? I know, I'm a bloody foreigner but I can use Googel Trans-Layter while cooking my beans.

[Andrew]

The only people who vote in local elections are activists, twitterati, nutters, and virtually no-one under 35.

What was the turnout ?. (much) Less than 40% ?

[Andrew]

By far the largest group sent the message "we don't care who wins" by simply not bothering to vote.

Quite a few fell foul of the new ID card requirement (but a surprising number of people turn up at French Border Force at Kings Cross intending to get the Eurostar without a passport).

[Colin Bignell]

I was almost tempted, just for the novelty of having to provide photo ID.

[brian]

In message [e-mail]>, Roger Hayter [e-mail] writes

An illustration of Poe's Law

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[Roger Hayter]

The Will of the People was a sarcastic comment that what's good for the goose is good for the gander - bigoted old brexiteers have to accept a Labour win in the election the same way as they kept saying Brexit was the "WotP". The original Radioman was Reay, a noted crypto-fascist. But this, different, Radio Man was parodying his views about the Labour Party. You don't need to be a native English speaker, but having read ukra for a quarter of a century helps!

[Brian Morrison]

And you believe these polls why? Especially in applying whatever they actually have measured to a putative GE result.

[Spike]

You might be interested in the analysis provided by Prof John Curtis of Strathclyde University on the BBC R4 PM programme today (starting about

17:06:20) in which he says that if these results were translated to a General Election, Labour would be 20 seats short of a majority (at 17:08:50).

[Colin Bignell]

If the local elections were reflected in the next general election, something that never actually happens, the LibDems would get 20% of the vote.

[Colin Bignell]

Because the margin of error is large enough for it only to be a question of how much Labour is going to win by, not whether they will win.