Why did voters desert the UK Conservatives in local elections? | Inside Story
After a landslide win in the last general election--
the UK's governing Conservative Party's support collapses in local elections in England.
Gains for the Labour Party - dented however by its stance on the war on Gaza.
So, how significant are these election results?
Presenter: Neave Barker
Guests:
Chris Wilkins - a former Director of Strategy for Prime Minister Theresa May.
Peter Geoghegan - Journalist, Broadcaster and Author of 'Democracy For Sale'.
Alistair Jones - Associate Professor of Politics at De Montfort University in Leicester.
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Decades of spending taxpayer money on counterproductive wars whilst neglecting citizens at home may also have much to do with it!
@marinamarley956
Ай бұрын
All to do with it
@liveontheverandah
Ай бұрын
And embezzling a fair amount over the COVID years!
@bytemecommunications
Ай бұрын
@@liveontheverandah ... and beyond!
@liveontheverandah
Ай бұрын
Kier Starmer Doesnt want to upset the Labour frienda of Israel that will destroy his leadership just as they did Corbyn. The antisemitism charge was shown to be completely bogus. Your perpetuating a lot of false narrative here!
@DarkShroom
Ай бұрын
lol i'm a labour supporter but that is kinda funny concidering it was Blair that done the counterproductive wars, the rest just pretty much occured
‘Why did voters desert Conservatives’, my first thought, have I got time to watch this three hour long list.
All they talk about is immigration......No mention of building houses or investment in the country.
@robbyrogersberg1520
Ай бұрын
All the rightwing has is racism and fascism to offer, ran and controlled by Bankers, and Labour is controlled by Israel, GREAT F+×KIN CHOISE they've given us
@maccagrabme
Ай бұрын
@@hohohohehehe6910 So you think anyone concerned that they cant get on the housing list or afford a home because of out of control numbers coming here makes that person a fascist? Are you for real?
@hohohohehehe6910
Ай бұрын
@maccagrabme what are you talking about, you cretin? The Tories are fascist because they have fascist opinions about how to run the country. Which is why they want to deport asylum seekers and which is why they only care about immigration. They have gaslit gullible followers like you into believing a load of lies about immigrants and why you can't get a house. There is no evidence that they're to blame for any of it. It's just easier to point their finger of blame at them so that their gammon followers don't blame the party that started all of this rubbish in the first place.
@hohohohehehe6910
Ай бұрын
@maccagrabme my reply was deleted. What a surprise. That's not what I said at all. I was talking specifically about how the Tory party only care about feeding red meat to their voters. There is no evidence that immigrants have affected your inability to get a house.
Anybody ever wonder why politicians net worth always increases and regular citizens net worth dramatically decreases no matter what's going on?
@awakenedsoulx9431
Ай бұрын
Yup I have for quite a few years. Two cheeks of the same backside to quote G G.
they will send him to Rawanda in 2025
@abdell75roussos
Ай бұрын
What do your ordinary working class families want instead, or does the left hate them too? Judging by the number of veiws, there would be plenty of people wanting to offer rooms and board? Appear not to be the case? Still, you comment sounds 'cool'.
@santanagonsalves6461
Ай бұрын
Rwanda*
If you want a specific example, I live in Mid-Bedfordshire. Why would I vote for someone selected from within and by the bunch of fools who repeatedly selected Nadine Dorries? After she repeatedly, undeniably showed her disinterest and contempt for doing the job she was elected to?
He needs to go
@the_grand_tourer
Ай бұрын
They all need to go, Cruella has been let out her box to put the blame on Sunak as a distraction from 14 years of destruction by a gang of sociopaths.
Kick out this Rishi sunak, he is not eligible for this position sent to jail
@drjamesallen6012
Ай бұрын
An Indian is always an Indian,and can never be an Englishman
Send sunak to Devil island ..Papillon is waiting for him...😂😂 sunak head is bigger than his body...he is falling down...
@CBM902Q
Ай бұрын
😂😂 he looks like a big-head cartoon character 😂😂
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
the didi dictator
Get him out now
Why ill tell you why today 2 roofs collapse on a hospital which had to be evacuated. People can't see a nhs dentist unless they go private. Doctors only telephone people for appointments. We gave 3 billion to Ukraine money that could of been used to fix raac in schools. The rivers are full of sewage. Whole areas desolate rubbish everywhere. The list goes on and on. Rishi get the message go
@tofurakhanom2644
Ай бұрын
This India guy really need to call for GE and get lost
@user-tx1rr3rb1q
Ай бұрын
@@tofurakhanom2644 now now chap it's nothing to do with were he is from its clearly he has self intrest
@sarahm4516
Ай бұрын
@@user-tx1rr3rb1q well said
@chrysalis4126
Ай бұрын
@@user-tx1rr3rb1q He is still working on an India UK trade agreement, that's why he's hanging on in there to the death. Who will that benefit? His wife's relatives.
Because we know it's a class issue and not a race issue like the right wing media want us to believe but we all want to and do live in peace together and what we ALL want is jobs, a decent health care for all, affordable housing and sensible polices regarding everything else like the environment, education etc - also call for a ceasefire in Gaza now
@martinherts1967
Ай бұрын
Absolutely perfectly put ❤
@maccagrabme
Ай бұрын
There is no way any of that is going to happen with an influx like this of 1m per year, there cant possibly have enough housing, health care or stability in society, let lone any future planning with the mahem going on currently which is the main concern of anyone voting Reform. But you on the left think we are all racist and you dont seem to understand the correlation of too many in equates to fewer and fewer resources, why is that?
The labour party never had a problem with antisemitism, it never did. Unfortunately some can’t tolerate a party having an empathy Palestinian. One of it’s s candidates suspended for antisemitism is actually Jewish. How ridiculous is that?
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
israel lobbyists pay too well.
That guy always enjoyed his highly privileged life. You think he cares about the normal people? Lol.
Taxes (including council tax) is at a all time high - Tories out
@WhichDoctor1
Ай бұрын
Taxes at a all time high, public services at an all time low. They always accuse labour of being the tax and spend party. But the Tories are the tax and embezzle party. I'd rather be taxed and see that money spent on public services that i need rather than be taxed and see that money disappear into the off shore bank accounts of millionaire friends of the government
Because people are tired of the hard right creating more problems and just not doing there job and it's on a global scale
@megasizer5119
Ай бұрын
you are a fool, what hard right? the tories are neo liberal...
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. A women with cat whiskers makeup casually walking into Tesco with her pajamas. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country.
@richardgillette5759
Ай бұрын
thats why UK needs to take in thousands of mideast refugees so that shariah law can clean up the mess
@etziowingeler3173
Ай бұрын
refugees aren't the problem. The problem is your government wanting you to believe it's all because of this external cause- it certainly has nothing to do with the politics of last ten years, noooo ....
@user-jf3dk8su7q
Ай бұрын
Du warst in England 😅😅😅komm hör auf 😊Europa erwacht genau wie Australien Amerika Schweden Dänemark Ost Europa geht einfach nach Gaza Demonstrieren 😮😮
@tofurakhanom2644
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂@@richardgillette5759
@michaelryan2562
Ай бұрын
@@richardgillette5759Stop being a Bigot and open your mind the middle eastern people are not in Britain if any are it’s a minimal minority, the majority of immigrants are Indian and Pakistani not Eastern Europeans or from the Middle East you fool.
Foreign Nations and Countries think that we the British people are in charge of what our government do? Think again, and this is the major issues as our economies are sinking!
This refreshing to see a news outlet that isn’t called in the war on Gaza a Muslim issue. It is not it is a humanitarian issue. The labour party should take that on board. It is not behaved very well recently either.
We hate him. We also hate Starmer
@50_Pence
Ай бұрын
@@foppo101 there's too many suckers in the UK - reading (believing) the mail watching the beeb. As long as donners and think tanks control institutional msm we'll forever be shuffling the same bs mp's. The clamp down on the Internet is proof that no change is all we have in store
@helenpauls1496
Ай бұрын
Hate the policies, broken promises, and corruption . Not the individuals.
@50_Pence
Ай бұрын
@@helenpauls1496 ha. It's them and their team thinking them up
@helenpauls1496
Ай бұрын
@@50_Pence True, but so much individual hate around that was trying to divert it to the actual problems.
Please make a 5-8 minute piece. I haven't got 30 minutes to spare for analysis of British conservatives
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
'they suck, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer' there, summed it up for you!
Significant results alright. Sunak is on the way out
What going on here? Rwanda is not working 😂😂😂
@zezeshort
Ай бұрын
Hahaha yes Rwanda it's not working for conservative
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
1/2 a billion spent to send 1 person there. what a farce.
They leaned this from their Master” Joseph gobbled “.
The Muslim vote came out to make their voices heard.
People are waking up around the world. I’m American and was hopeful until Mike Johnson pushed through aid to the forever wars around the world. That blackpilled me. Good luck.
I do not think the Labour Party will be any better on Gaza and the West Bank. Remember what Starmer and his MPs have done so far.
Dragging up anti-semitism? Desperate stuff
So much depression due to Sunak
Because they are corrupt to the core.
Sunak and Biden needs to go free free Palestine.
@richardgillette5759
Ай бұрын
why?
@pattit6530
Ай бұрын
@@richardgillette5759 Seriously!?
@momwithaplan1287
Ай бұрын
I’ll fix it for you. It will be bye-bye Palestine if Biden loses. So many fools walk this earth.😂
@tonyh7158
Ай бұрын
Send them to Ukraine since they love Ukraine so much they ought to fight for that country.
From slimey sunak to slimey statmer...god help us all.
We want GEORGE GALLOWAY!
Refugees Welcome in Germany, bring your family 🌈❤️🥰🇩🇪💞🌈
@tofurakhanom2644
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@sadamafridi7227
Ай бұрын
Love u
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
yet you sell israel 30% of their weapons and make it illegal to support palestine.
Its time for Scotland become real county in independence so that much better and easy life , ok
Did we ever have a labour government since the 1970s. I always saw Tony Blair as a clever opportunist who couldn’t care less for labour principles, add to that unfortunately he was also a extreme narcissist that was only concerned about the financial benefits he would reap by taking this country to war knowing full well of the loss of life to both British service lives, Iraqi lives, at the expense of the British economy. As for Keir Stormer? It’s another narcissist of the extreme, how could he manage to fool anyone, sure he has help from the media owned by mostly tax dodging billionaires with their own agenda, but really their is no Labour Party except in name only.
Because it's the nasty party.
Funny thing how nobody mentions the Brexit anymore : )
“Why did voters desert Conservatives” - do we really need to debate this? Shouldn’t it be obvious to everyone? Surely we as a nation have that sanity and intelligence right?
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
remember, most people didnt vote for the tories. yet they usually win.
Free Palestine
Andy Street was expected to win, because he’s a good man. He’s not a typical Tory
@chrysalis4126
Ай бұрын
Maybe he'll stand as an independent next time.
I’m appalled by both of mainstream parties in England. I hoped better of Starter. I unexpected the tourist to behave just how they are. They have proven to be very racist racist and divisive.
This man must not voted in to lead UK. No way
Because everyone now wants a better life paid for by others.
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
nope. we dont want the rich to get richer at everyone else's expense.
Well that might help the palestinians britain abstained in unsc vote in support observer state palestine ehy then are they not unilaterally supporting it same as other yes votes
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
israel pay the tories too well.
Labour is not the answer
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
still loads better than the tories
Not surprised at all.
Labour ❤❤❤
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 stop the genocide 🇵🇸
@buddymx163
Ай бұрын
@samirdoncic6395 Well since you are British, you should know about the Balfour Declaration, Pal1s, where living there in peace, with Jews and Christians, until your colonialist gov took Pal1stine to create Esrael.... education is key if you gonna talk about politics.
@buddymx163
Ай бұрын
@samirdoncic6395 You say that you don't give a Fxxck about your own land, if you do not love the place that you were born, or the struggles of your ancestors, and If you don't understand that people emigrate to other areas out of need, you don't understand this conversation, if you are ok with 10.0000 children mu4der, if you are cool with ravvis saying that in the futire they will k1ll everybody that is not j3w you are clearly part of the problem.
@buddymx163
Ай бұрын
@samirdoncic6395 also you Ok with the fact that the UK doesn't have money to pay for housing, health, and needs for the British but they have money to send to w4rs???, and you say you want to become British one day!. clearly, you have the same level of love for your place of birth that you have for the UK which is cero, let me tell you, the Uk doesn't need opportunist money grabbers like you.
Vote out to help out. Vote Labour 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
if people think labor is gonna safe the day, oh boy, they got another thing coming!
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
it will still be an improvement over the useless, corrupt tories
If rishie it gone good for uk good for the western democracies he is little man or actually a little boy in a office he doesn’t belong
Sunderland red🎉🎉🎉
why qatar don't became democracy ,
I will not vote Labour until Kier Starmer resigns I will vote independent instead.
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
wasted vote then.
Rishi who?
Dead man walking...
free palestaine
❤💙💚💛💜
@richardgillette5759
Ай бұрын
Gays for Gaza
😂
TRUMP STRONG !! like ManlyManPootin & Talibans & nate&Yahoo VOTE TRUMP/SANTOS 2024 - THE ONLY LAW&ORDER CANDIDATES
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
lol.
General election is totally different, I think PM Sunak sorted out what there shortfalls because he done better for his his country.
@michaelsmith5804
Ай бұрын
I think your coping there buddy. Conservatives are gonna lose pretty badly. I think the general election will see reform over take lib Dems by 1 or 2%. I think it's likely labour will win but I think a reform conservative coalition is a possibility albeit a small one
@seyij8146
Ай бұрын
No
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
lol. what you smoking bro? hes made everything worse!
I will never vote for Labour as long as I live so all these idiots who thing we will be scared of the right wing Tories and always vote for Labour will see how strong we are.
@gchelem
Ай бұрын
Bye bye, don’t forget to close the door behind you!
@kanedNunable
Ай бұрын
things were far better when labour were in last time!
deserted them because they are corrupt liars
Ha Ha Ha Ha 🤣😂😂😅 out India ( Rishi Sunak) from Britain 😂😅😊😮
Free Palestine