UK: Labour expected to get creamed in tonight's local elections

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The Tories' new business model is: bung government money to cronies, painting it as 'regeneration'

for poor areas, and make it clear you need Tory local councils and MPs to receive it. Whether it'll help those areas, I doubt - but the Tories think they'll get away with it for a few more years.

Brexit supporters are now only voting Tory - there's effectively no UKIP or Brexit party to divert votes. Areas that supported Remain, like London, are expected to stay solidly Labour - Sadiq Khan will cruise home as London mayor (and Boris Johnson won that as a Tory in 2008 and 2012).

The pandemic has made it impossible to say what have been the effects of Brexit, and what the virus. And bad Conservative decisions in the pandemic (sending hospital patients back to care homes without a Covid test where many then spread the virus, delaying a lockdown in the autumn, giving money to incompetent cronies for schemes that didn't work) just don't seem to have hurt them. And that may have been Labour's mistake - they didn't criticise the Tories enough at the time, for fear of looking unhelpful in a national crisis.