Thursday this week local elections were held across the UK, taking place under the umbrella of certain political issues.
There was the obvious issue of Brexit and the varying discussions such as leaving without a deal. Was the May local elections going to see the end of Teresa May and there was the rise of green issues with protests, marches, demonstrations and even the gluing of oneself to the London Stock Exchange and trains at Canary Wharf station in a fresh set of protests targeting the capital’s financial district.
It was widely anticipated that the major parties would be impacted as the country was split by these pending issues that vacillated between the generation gaps, racial differences and geographical span.
As the ballots were being read late into Thursday night and Friday morning, the devastation in council seats for the main two parties became obvious.
Finally, with all of the results now in, it was obvious that both of the two main parties suffered significant losses, with the Conservatives having fared worse loosing over 1,300 seats and more than 40 councils.
On the other side, the Lib Dems came out as the biggest winners on the night, gaining 700 councillors across the country and several councils, largely at the expense of the Tories. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, The Green Party and independents also picked up a lot of seats which was clearly impacted by the recent protests and political unrest.
To summarise the elections, there was no overall control with, 71 councils ending up with no party able to take overall control which was an increase of 36. In other words, the country’s split is even more definitive. What is clear is that there is nothing obviously clear. This duplicates the recent parliamentary votes, where MPs voted and the results were split.
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