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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  • @bytemecommunications
    @bytemecommunicationsАй бұрын

    Decades of spending taxpayer money on counterproductive wars whilst neglecting citizens at home may also have much to do with it!

  • @marinamarley956

    @marinamarley956

    Ай бұрын

    All to do with it

  • @liveontheverandah

    @liveontheverandah

    Ай бұрын

    And embezzling a fair amount over the COVID years!

  • @bytemecommunications

    @bytemecommunications

    Ай бұрын

    @@liveontheverandah ... and beyond!

  • @liveontheverandah

    @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

    @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

  • @the_grand_tourer
    @the_grand_tourerАй бұрын

    ‘Why did voters desert Conservatives’, my first thought, have I got time to watch this three hour long list.

  • @colofsco1
    @colofsco1Ай бұрын

    All they talk about is immigration......No mention of building houses or investment in the country.

  • @robbyrogersberg1520

    @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

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  • @midwestcharm
    @midwestcharmАй бұрын

    Anybody ever wonder why politicians net worth always increases and regular citizens net worth dramatically decreases no matter what's going on?

  • @awakenedsoulx9431

    @awakenedsoulx9431

    Ай бұрын

    Yup I have for quite a few years. Two cheeks of the same backside to quote G G.

  • @LR28890
    @LR28890Ай бұрын

    they will send him to Rawanda in 2025

  • @abdell75roussos

    @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

    @santanagonsalves6461

    Ай бұрын

    Rwanda*

  • @onenote6619
    @onenote6619Ай бұрын

    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?

  • @buddadavid480
    @buddadavid480Ай бұрын

    He needs to go

  • @the_grand_tourer

    @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.

  • @user-yr8yk9zl1w
    @user-yr8yk9zl1wАй бұрын

    Kick out this Rishi sunak, he is not eligible for this position sent to jail

  • @drjamesallen6012

    @drjamesallen6012

    Ай бұрын

    An Indian is always an Indian,and can never be an Englishman

  • @user-do7bt6eh2o
    @user-do7bt6eh2oАй бұрын

    Send sunak to Devil island ..Papillon is waiting for him...😂😂 sunak head is bigger than his body...he is falling down...

  • @CBM902Q

    @CBM902Q

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂 he looks like a big-head cartoon character 😂😂

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    the didi dictator

  • @HdHd-hp6qz
    @HdHd-hp6qzАй бұрын

    Get him out now

  • @user-tx1rr3rb1q
    @user-tx1rr3rb1qАй бұрын

    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

    @tofurakhanom2644

    Ай бұрын

    This India guy really need to call for GE and get lost

  • @user-tx1rr3rb1q

    @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

    @sarahm4516

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-tx1rr3rb1q well said

  • @chrysalis4126

    @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.

  • @shannonx7759
    @shannonx7759Ай бұрын

    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

    @martinherts1967

    Ай бұрын

    Absolutely perfectly put ❤

  • @maccagrabme

    @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?

  • @csharpe5787
    @csharpe5787Ай бұрын

    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

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    israel lobbyists pay too well.

  • @ikman3410
    @ikman3410Ай бұрын

    That guy always enjoyed his highly privileged life. You think he cares about the normal people? Lol.

  • @stuarturquhart9363
    @stuarturquhart9363Ай бұрын

    Taxes (including council tax) is at a all time high - Tories out

  • @WhichDoctor1

    @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

  • @thundercatt5265
    @thundercatt5265Ай бұрын

    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

    @megasizer5119

    Ай бұрын

    you are a fool, what hard right? the tories are neo liberal...

  • @Abraham_Tsfaye
    @Abraham_TsfayeАй бұрын

    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

    @richardgillette5759

    Ай бұрын

    thats why UK needs to take in thousands of mideast refugees so that shariah law can clean up the mess

  • @etziowingeler3173

    @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

    @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

    @tofurakhanom2644

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@richardgillette5759

  • @michaelryan2562

    @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.

  • @spencerhulme1203
    @spencerhulme1203Ай бұрын

    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!

  • @csharpe5787
    @csharpe5787Ай бұрын

    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.

  • @50_Pence
    @50_PenceАй бұрын

    We hate him. We also hate Starmer

  • @50_Pence

    @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

    @helenpauls1496

    Ай бұрын

    Hate the policies, broken promises, and corruption . Not the individuals.

  • @50_Pence

    @50_Pence

    Ай бұрын

    @@helenpauls1496 ha. It's them and their team thinking them up

  • @helenpauls1496

    @helenpauls1496

    Ай бұрын

    @@50_Pence True, but so much individual hate around that was trying to divert it to the actual problems.

  • @prasannasurange
    @prasannasurangeАй бұрын

    Please make a 5-8 minute piece. I haven't got 30 minutes to spare for analysis of British conservatives

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    'they suck, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer' there, summed it up for you!

  • @BDS-now
    @BDS-nowАй бұрын

    Significant results alright. Sunak is on the way out

  • @fitnesstraining5100
    @fitnesstraining5100Ай бұрын

    What going on here? Rwanda is not working 😂😂😂

  • @zezeshort

    @zezeshort

    Ай бұрын

    Hahaha yes Rwanda it's not working for conservative

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    1/2 a billion spent to send 1 person there. what a farce.

  • @kpala64
    @kpala64Ай бұрын

    They leaned this from their Master” Joseph gobbled “.

  • @hourbee5535
    @hourbee5535Ай бұрын

    The Muslim vote came out to make their voices heard.

  • @getaclew
    @getaclewАй бұрын

    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.

  • @user-bj1pu2jv5t
    @user-bj1pu2jv5tАй бұрын

    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.

  • @FSMDog
    @FSMDogАй бұрын

    Dragging up anti-semitism? Desperate stuff

  • @sadamafridi7227
    @sadamafridi7227Ай бұрын

    So much depression due to Sunak

  • @kevomusica
    @kevomusicaАй бұрын

    Because they are corrupt to the core.

  • @hobbeeforturitpublishingll3970
    @hobbeeforturitpublishingll3970Ай бұрын

    Sunak and Biden needs to go free free Palestine.

  • @richardgillette5759

    @richardgillette5759

    Ай бұрын

    why?

  • @pattit6530

    @pattit6530

    Ай бұрын

    @@richardgillette5759 Seriously!?

  • @momwithaplan1287

    @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

    @tonyh7158

    Ай бұрын

    Send them to Ukraine since they love Ukraine so much they ought to fight for that country.

  • @patrik-vw4ek
    @patrik-vw4ekАй бұрын

    From slimey sunak to slimey statmer...god help us all.

  • @valentinadivina2229
    @valentinadivina2229Ай бұрын

    We want GEORGE GALLOWAY!

  • @WirhabenPlatz
    @WirhabenPlatzАй бұрын

    Refugees Welcome in Germany, bring your family 🌈❤️🥰🇩🇪💞🌈

  • @tofurakhanom2644

    @tofurakhanom2644

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sadamafridi7227

    @sadamafridi7227

    Ай бұрын

    Love u

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    yet you sell israel 30% of their weapons and make it illegal to support palestine.

  • @budimargarito989
    @budimargarito989Ай бұрын

    Its time for Scotland become real county in independence so that much better and easy life , ok

  • @MC-mv2wr
    @MC-mv2wrАй бұрын

    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.

  • @sol2746
    @sol2746Ай бұрын

    Because it's the nasty party.

  • @razvanyke
    @razvanykeАй бұрын

    Funny thing how nobody mentions the Brexit anymore : )

  • @MartyJackson
    @MartyJacksonАй бұрын

    “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

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    remember, most people didnt vote for the tories. yet they usually win.

  • @user-bx1wj2ub6h
    @user-bx1wj2ub6hАй бұрын

    Free Palestine

  • @csharpe5787
    @csharpe5787Ай бұрын

    Andy Street was expected to win, because he’s a good man. He’s not a typical Tory

  • @chrysalis4126

    @chrysalis4126

    Ай бұрын

    Maybe he'll stand as an independent next time.

  • @csharpe5787
    @csharpe5787Ай бұрын

    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.

  • @CBM902Q
    @CBM902QАй бұрын

    This man must not voted in to lead UK. No way

  • @anibrown5374
    @anibrown5374Ай бұрын

    Because everyone now wants a better life paid for by others.

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    nope. we dont want the rich to get richer at everyone else's expense.

  • @shirleyclay6761
    @shirleyclay6761Ай бұрын

    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

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    israel pay the tories too well.

  • @tbrown4080
    @tbrown4080Ай бұрын

    Labour is not the answer

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    still loads better than the tories

  • @senguptasayn
    @senguptasaynАй бұрын

    Not surprised at all.

  • @sadamafridi7227
    @sadamafridi7227Ай бұрын

    Labour ❤❤❤

  • @buddadavid480
    @buddadavid480Ай бұрын

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸 stop the genocide 🇵🇸

  • @buddymx163

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  • @JohnShaw-zm2pc
    @JohnShaw-zm2pc16 күн бұрын

    Vote out to help out. Vote Labour 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @monipenny408
    @monipenny408Ай бұрын

    if people think labor is gonna safe the day, oh boy, they got another thing coming!

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    it will still be an improvement over the useless, corrupt tories

  • @AlirezaDakhteh-pv4mb
    @AlirezaDakhteh-pv4mbАй бұрын

    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

  • @mn4169
    @mn4169Ай бұрын

    Sunderland red🎉🎉🎉

  • @ulala9729
    @ulala9729Ай бұрын

    why qatar don't became democracy ,

  • @whoeverthis.itaintme.9873
    @whoeverthis.itaintme.9873Ай бұрын

    I will not vote Labour until Kier Starmer resigns I will vote independent instead.

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    wasted vote then.

  • @TheRiskcan
    @TheRiskcanАй бұрын

    Rishi who?

  • @kevincrouch3956
    @kevincrouch3956Ай бұрын

    Dead man walking...

  • @LR28890
    @LR28890Ай бұрын

    free palestaine

  • @Ravoof786sitaara
    @Ravoof786sitaaraАй бұрын

    ❤💙💚💛💜

  • @richardgillette5759

    @richardgillette5759

    Ай бұрын

    Gays for Gaza

  • @masterpassacademy
    @masterpassacademyАй бұрын

    😂

  • @kingsalmon7686
    @kingsalmon7686Ай бұрын

    TRUMP STRONG !! like ManlyManPootin & Talibans & nate&Yahoo VOTE TRUMP/SANTOS 2024 - THE ONLY LAW&ORDER CANDIDATES

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    lol.

  • @zaarajahancompany3515
    @zaarajahancompany3515Ай бұрын

    General election is totally different, I think PM Sunak sorted out what there shortfalls because he done better for his his country.

  • @michaelsmith5804

    @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

    @seyij8146

    Ай бұрын

    No

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    lol. what you smoking bro? hes made everything worse!

  • @alibajwa368
    @alibajwa368Ай бұрын

    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

    @gchelem

    Ай бұрын

    Bye bye, don’t forget to close the door behind you!

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    Ай бұрын

    things were far better when labour were in last time!

  • @colintofield1377
    @colintofield1377Ай бұрын

    deserted them because they are corrupt liars

  • @kaykobadsyed6418
    @kaykobadsyed6418Ай бұрын

    Ha Ha Ha Ha 🤣😂😂😅 out India ( Rishi Sunak) from Britain 😂😅😊😮

  • @ianclarke3627
    @ianclarke3627Ай бұрын

    Free Palestine

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