The UK: The Keir Starmer years (9 Viewers)

[ZenGiraffe]

And people absolutely do care about fly tipping. It’s on a par with potholes in terms of things that get moaned about in local government meetings.

I don't doubt that, but it is still a bad solution to the problem! Even if limited to more organised fly-tippers, what sense is there in crushing vehicles rather than seizing them?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

And what happens when (and it will be WHEN) they make a mistake and crush the wrong vehicle? That could get expensive quickly.

 

[dmlaw]

Yeah, crushing the vehicles is silly. Putting a few more resources into catching large scale offenders and seizing the vehicles to stop them doing it again should be good politics, particularly when you factor in the cost to councils and/or land owners to clear up the fly tipped waste.

 

[GNL]

I guess sometimes you need to brandish THE STICK to get people to follow the law. If people think they might end up with their range rover turned into a CUBE maybe they'll think twice about leaving their sofa in a CREEK.

It's a bit GAMMONY but also probably strategically announced today as vast swathes of the country's more rural bits go to the polls to vote reform in their local elections.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Which Moopers have council elections today, and who are you voting for?

 

[big ron]

REFORM TAKE ARE COUNTRTY BACK!!!1!!!

 

[big ron]

We don't have them this year because a third of the council is up for election every year and then on year four they have a fallow year like Glastonbury.

 

[lolly]

We have the West Of England Mayoral Combined Authority (i imagine only a handful of people know what that is and what it does and I don't fully consider myself one of them), and I'll vote Green.

Not feeling inspired AT ALL, but i figured the inevitable low turnout is more likely to favour Reform.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

Nothing here. Election cancelled as our council is being merged with the wider area council, which is just asking for ABSOLUTE SHITE

 

[Soldi]

Which Moopers have council elections today, and who are you voting for?

Me. Tactically Labour to keep Reform out.

 

[octophone]

As much as I love to see Keir Starmer looking miserable, Farage laughing his arse off more than cancels it out.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Labour gains?

 

[dmlaw]

If it’s from 2021, that would be when the Tories were in the middle of their vaccine bounce and Labour were still quite unpopular. It would have been surprising if they had managed to lose very much from such a low starting point.

 

[VoR]

Conservatives still holding the most councils?

 

[AGinAg (38)]

First result of the night

 

[Madison]

The likely Hull mayor is 2012 gold medalist Luke Campbell.

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He won.

 

[VoR]

So much for tactical voting…

 

[Finn]

Does that make him our first elected official to have got his arse out for Gay Times?

Also: fuck him and his rancid politics