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While we all bask in the beauty that is:
Con -1061
Lab +536
LD +405
Green +241
Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that UKIP lost EVERY Councillor, while Reform UK came away with just 6 (gained 2)🤣
#LocalElections2023
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Con -1061
Lab +536
LD +405
Green +241
Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that UKIP lost EVERY Councillor, while Reform UK came away with just 6 (gained 2)🤣
#LocalElections2023
1/7
So we can absolutely REJECT any daft Right Wing notion that this result shows the Tory Party just need to swing even further Right, or that it’s because they haven’t “stopped the boats” or that they need to “scrap net zero”.
This result really, really does NOT show that!
2/7
This result really, really does NOT show that!
2/7
REFUK averaged only 6% in all the places they stood, on a platform of scrapping net zero, fracking, reopening coal mines, more North sea Oil&Gas exploration.
Their culture wars, “stop the boats”, anti-Green ideas are simply not wanted.👍🏻
3/7
This is a wonderful juxtaposition👇🏼
Their culture wars, “stop the boats”, anti-Green ideas are simply not wanted.👍🏻
3/7
This is a wonderful juxtaposition👇🏼
In these same elections in 2019 the Tories lost 1300 seats. It ended May’s premiership.
Their narrative was that they had been “punished” for not being Brexity enough, not being “tough” enough on immigrants, blah, blah, blah.
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Their narrative was that they had been “punished” for not being Brexity enough, not being “tough” enough on immigrants, blah, blah, blah.
4/7
So they swung further and further to the right
Made a point of appeasing the very worst in our society, and have alienated the majority of people with their racist rhetoric, culture war nonsense.
While simultaneously ruining our economy with their hard Brexit & Trussonomics
5/7
Made a point of appeasing the very worst in our society, and have alienated the majority of people with their racist rhetoric, culture war nonsense.
While simultaneously ruining our economy with their hard Brexit & Trussonomics
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And now they’ve lost a FURTHER 1000+ seats as a consequence.
And the parties to the right of them have been pretty much annihilated
The people have rejected them. They don’t want culture wars, they don’t want rabid cruelty to refugees, they care about the environment.
6/7
And the parties to the right of them have been pretty much annihilated
The people have rejected them. They don’t want culture wars, they don’t want rabid cruelty to refugees, they care about the environment.
6/7
So please push back against any notion that these elections suggest the Tory party just need to be MORE right wing!
It’s clear that’s NOT what people want.
Quite frankly, it’s high time they toddled off to spend many years “finding themselves” in the wilderness!
#GTTO
7/7
It’s clear that’s NOT what people want.
Quite frankly, it’s high time they toddled off to spend many years “finding themselves” in the wilderness!
#GTTO
7/7
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