What do the local election results mean and what are the consequences for Rishi Sunak? | ITV News 

tories and labor are absolutely same.....

@@tomisultrabased off of what? Please provide evidence

@@ChristehzROTMG really? :D, if you not yet see that, no evidence will convince you, just time will show, unfortunately this will be to late to change your mind so if you think they gonna bring NHS back, will stop illegal immigration, and so on, i wish you good luck

​@@tomisultraHow is that relevant to this person statement? They might not even vote Labour.

@@tomisultra Do you think that Labour will continues with the absurd Rwanda plan or allow water companies to pollute for profit? Do you think that Labour will demonise junior doctors and nurses?

They do not vote for “them” they vote against labour

Its the "labour will be worse" group or the the wealthy who have always benefited.

Because just like labour they have die hard voters and people that trust labour less.

Most didn't vote, atleast in areas like Harlow, where turn out was 28%

"How are people still voting for them?" Because the alternative is Labour. It's not "who is best", it's who is worse ...and the terrible turnout proves most people are thinking "none of the above".

Good idea ! 👍🏼 Although I wouldn't be at all surprised if he actually owned it !

His name is Sunk.

India?

He's already got his Green Card for America. ​@@talluris.prabhakar2782

They will not have him

you can see now that smile behind dead eyes in a sunak.

And the rest of what they stole.

@hypsyzygy506 And for Sunak’s tax evading wife to pay all her back taxes, with interest (like Average Joe would have to do).

That’s just all politicians tho

Possibly. But Tories have a gift for lies, blame, and hypocrisy.

@@EVITANDYmaybe but I think, they’ve just been the ones in power so the spotlights on them, just watch for when labour have a majority . Politicians dont change

@@marcusmcneill4024 Again, you may be right. But conservatives the world over, cannot help themselves but to lie and cheat in order to get what they want - regardless of the actual cost. Then they will cry and blame others when forced to take responsibility. Just look at Trump.

@@marcusmcneill4024 Some politicians are actually decent and trustworthy. But the Tories purged most of them for not being Brexity enough.

Too short

100 % correct we won't be any better of with Labour in my opinion all the same Traitors to humanity

Of course he could see it coming. I think he knows it’s game over and will use the next few months as damage control

@@mariGentle 🤣

"Labour knew they need to win in Tees Valley to win a general election" - Sunak who believes Tees Valley is the only place that votes in a general election

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Hi from Germany. The scary thing is that the UK's social security system was fairly minimal compared to ours when you started Austerity, what is there left to cut?

@@Korschtal If they wanted to save on benefits the easiest way would be for them to stop questioning our doctors and end health assessments by private companies. These cost a fortune by themselves then we have to add the cost of all the appeals that are typically won by the claimant into the mix its just silly. Then we have all the meaningless courses they like to send our job seekers on these days... So much money to be saved elsewhere instead of kicking the people.

labour will also do the same, basically same party.

He's multi-billionaire at least after his India trade agreement

What’s good about it?

Be careful what you wish for, independents are renowned for being prickly and fragmented

Independents are often not 'independent' - reg as such gets around electoral commission control rules.

where are they getting their funding from though?

Yes the exact % of the vote that labour have won on. shame.

😅😅, Reform UK are targeting them ..

​@@markjoseph196get in reform 🥊🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

​@markjoseph196 Not they are targeting Labour. Cons were always gonna lose. Also why target someone's measly 18% when Labour has 40+%. At 15% if reform take 20% from Labour then it would be 35% rather than go for Cons total %. Go for the win as nobody likes 2nd place

Well deserved, however I cannot help thinking without voter returns that the result is heavily influenced by Tory voters not bothering as we, along with many others did last week.

both ABSALUTE bonk sdaeh

Why

To the people who think ‘Asians’ voted for khan: All asians are not people from ‘isl*m’.. people from India, Srilanka, and other non-isl*mic countries vote for tories if you don’t know.. The people who come here on a mission to make this an isl*mic state mostly vote for labour. Asia is not a country, it’s a continent just for convenience to refer in text books..

Starker nothing like Sunak what are you raving about

@@chelloandra I could give you a list however top of it would be that they are both apologists and enablers of genocide. Doesn't require "raving" or a gcse to observe the common denominator that they are both bought and paid for.

Yeah it's blatantly pushing a narrative in favour of israel

You're sleepwalking into oblivion and you can't even see it.

It's like it's all muslim in the co7ntry 😮

​@@naeedaafzal3055 It's 6% of the entire population. 94% of the country aren't Muslim. Calm down.

Also remember media spin,

I'm sorry but how was it conning? If labour win they will get rid of the Rwanda plan and I don't think you should still send them to Rwanda

​@@jetnight88what? In English?

@@jetnight88The Cost Of Living. Bills And Homelessness Is An All Time High. Remember When They Said Leave The EU And We Will Save 350 Million A Year? What Happened?

@@jetnight88 remember hs2? Tens of billions wasted for a project that was promised and then scrapped.

@@jetnight88 The Rwanda plan should be ditched. It's utter garbage. Impractical and absurdly expensive. It will solve nothing.

This is exactly what happened in the US. Biden only got voted for trump to get out and now look at their country

Nope. I also think this. Doesn’t matter who you vote for all of them don’t keep their promises and the things they say never happen

@@InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb except it’s ONLY been tories in power for the last 13 years… they’ve been the ones creating the problems, making the bad decisions, and putting the country in the state it’s in now… they are the ones that mishandled brexit, that spent 70 billion on hs2 just to scrap it, than mishandled covid. Not Labour not Lib Dem’s not fkin Green Party, this is all the tories doing so what are you talking about?

If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal. European voting system is a massive improvement

@@InfiniteCookie3-jo2bb its as its always been, you vote for the lesser of the two evils, its not that it no longer means nothing, its always been like that sadly

I understand. It's beacuse they just talk their way away from a clear defeat. And the media cannot challenge them but simply dissents. What does Rishi (means teacher in hindi) believe is defeat - Death, perhaps not even that.

Because they are different. Show me a labour policy you either disagree with or that is the same as a Tory policy.

They are both the same the tories are socialists wearing blue ​@@ChristehzROTMG

​​@@ChristehzROTMGYou're the problem, human cattle who are not bright enough to do cursory research. Both party leaders are former young global leaders at the WEF does that not tell you something?

@@ChristehzROTMG Both sides are lobbying either way.

I've never understood this. I know you're just repeating what someone equally as uninformed told you in a pub, so there's no point in asking you to explain how the hell you came to that conclusion, but come on! Have you ever actually looked at the data? Have you ever looked at a single policy? Do you really think a Labour government would have proposed the Rwanda bullshit? Or specifically targeted disabled people in the recent PIP reform proposals? Those are policies specifically created to appeal to far right voters who think all the people receiving disability payments are spongers and that asylum seekers are foreigners that should be deported. A Labour government wouldn't attempt to implement those, because it would alienate left wing voters. The way people vote dictates who is in power and how they use that power to keep themselves in office. If one party wouldn't create policies (that AFFECT REAL PEOPLE'S LIVES) while the other would, then they are catagorically NOT the same, and it makes a difference whi gets elected. Everyone hates politicians (that isn't some niche opinion) but who is elected does have real world consequences.

OCT 7th was more than Immoral it was Vicious and Evil.

@@robinnorthway365 As is the continued oppression, occupation, stealing of palestinians land and kiiling of the native population, and the many Oct 7th's Israel have committed against the palestinians before and after Oct 7.....

​@@robinnorthway365and killing 35k+ people (mainly children) is NOT vicious and evil?!

​@jamesarnold7253fair point but I agree with OP, should be turning off any moral person's vote

But his position is a ceasefire

The system does need a total overhaul but to suggest both are as bad as each other is curious. I suggest you take 5 minutes to compare a few graphs on GDP growth, NHS waiting lists, national debt, inequality and average wage to average property prices from the past 13 years and the preceding 13 years.

They’re not just as bad as each other. Provide evidence for your statement. What Labour policies right now are the same as Tory policies, please tell me.

​​@@ChristehzROTMGAll their policies are being dictated by the same cabal of international bankers that have run the UK and the US for several centuries. Many people are slowing seeing who really runs the West and the irony is that they're centred in the ME although run from The City of London and Washington. Grow up ffs we have a uniparty in the UK same as the US. If I don't edit yt shadow ban me.

The Tories have undermined the electoral system for smaller parties by changing the supplementary vote system in London's mayoral election back to first past the post for example.

@@davidk7262 not exactly a fair comparison considering one of them 13 years includes Brexit, a war and a global pandemic the likes of which the world hasnt seen for centuries, i wish it was as easy as just comparing the years but its not

That’s not a difficult choice, one is an inconvenient illness and the other is potentially life threatening

@@Aerostarm And the life threatening one causes the other anyway.

@@Tyranastrasza yeah! That too!

To the people who think ‘Asians’ voted for khan: All asians are not people from ‘isl*m’.. people from India, Srilanka, and other non-isl*mic countries vote for tories if you don’t know.. The people who come here on a mission to make this an isl*mic state mostly vote for labour. Asia is not a country, it’s a continent just for convenience to refer in text books..

And Ukrainian men running 🏃‍♀️ away from the war

Well hopefully the polls are wrong and whatever you're spouting is bollocks then

Polls mean nothing. We saw that at the last general election and EU referendum

The 9% figure comes out of the actual results the voters gave today not some theoretical predictions.

Liebour Are Worse, Champagne Marxists.

Yeah they were leading. But when you live in a labour run council and don't receive your poll card it keeps labour in and makes sure you can't vote for another party.

⁠ You all hated tories because of a hindu sunak as PM, and now you have a ‘peaceful’ again as your mayor in Londonistan ! Congratulations 👏 👏

Keep dreaming ...he will do exactly just that ...

The Tories are terrible. They reck the country with their cuts and create a hostile environment

rishi

@@patriciamanville4770 I know. He doesn't deserve the extra couple of seconds it would take to tap out his name properly.

rishi said freeports will make lots of money well it did for ben

Exactly. Ben looked very uncomfortable with Sunak near him

Labour government incoming thankfully.

Most councillors are attached to the national parties, but there are also a lot of local-issue independents. Even the main party candidates have to deal with local issues. However, there is also the opportunity to give the national governing party a bloody nose. Minor parties and independents tend to do well in local elections, but First Past The Post means the big two parties dominate in the General Election, and have done since before WW1.

I work for the local authority and have some connection to the labour party as my father is a prominent member due to his work within the citys public services - We know most of the councillors & from my experience & speaking to them, they essentially control city spending and contract services while running their own variety of departments & services which are often stretched - hence why they control funding as they work to a budget and outside of tax payers money, events, subsidised housing & fines they have very little income Vs their expenditure - the mayor can appoint commissioners who choose from a variety of providers to run the services they dont have the capacity to run so they have quite a bit of influence over how the wards can be run; there's years long contracts and extensions & then they put them all back up for grabs and everyone has to bid for them again & they make the final decision on if it will continue or not - provided they have the budget allocated then they have to manage it & make sure they dont have a deficit because councils can become bankrupt - they run welfare services - adults and health - approve planning permission, run parks and are supposed to maintain the roads and infrastructure; some is owned by private corporations but subsidised by the local authority - they handle anti social behaviour and citizens advice - legal services & the courts - plan cultural events facilitate elections hold public meetings and consultations, do city planning - public health roll outs are done through the council in conjunction with health services - Realistically the local elections matter alot; it doesn't matter as much as the general election as that establishes the cabinet of the prime minister & make up of the ruling party or coalition & they're the ones who decide the budget for the councils, policy and all the stuff you think of when you think big government - whereas councils can be a Mish mash of every partys political candidates & as the other person said a few independent candidates often prominent figures within the community & while they make alot of difference to how those budgets are managed if the government isn't funding them enough in certain areas they can't do much outside of appealing to power & while certain areas will have more influence usually due to economic weight or population density ~ like London, that's complex too as everywhere is broken into Burroughs or wards who all work differently - Anyway the tldr is yes, no, to some extent, but not really

.... it's 4 but sure I can get behind a free Ireland.

​@@danburke6568northern ireland is a province and theres plenty of british citizens over here dont share your view

@@whitetroutchannel no, it's part of the UK. Not a province. The government has seats in British parliament etc Not sure your from UK, but ya northern Ireland is part of the UK.

@@whitetroutchannel maybe you think it's classed province. Still within England it's classed as a country with its own rights. Sad people think it's a province. Provinces in UK have little to no rights

@@danburke6568 Great Britain is 3 countries, the UK is 4 countries.

Only in London. That's the only area they deserve to win in

Because that would prevent the ones that can from doing good work. We already have a system to remove bad leaders, it's called an election, we don't need some other mechanism that only subverts the will of the people.

The position of Prime Minister isn't in the statute books, so might have to do that first.

Like America.

Stay there, you have nothing to do with UK

We hope so..had enough of the steaming lies of the tories…they’ve done sweet bug all

If you had enough of the lies .....dont vote for Starmer either​@@Cazgirl-hq4hi

@Blakes-rm7zp because somehow your opinion is relevant?

@Blakes-rm7zp yes and what if im British too and also get a vote would it make it relevant?

Should’ve wrote ( I do not consent) instead 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

Lucky for the rest of us.😊

Oh dear, never mind

Boris, you should have remembered your ID the first time you went.

Suppose I have more chance winning the lottery 3 x