Conservatives and their Liberal Dem lapdogs get creamed in British elections

[marmar]

from Guardian UK:


David Cameron has apologised to hundreds of Conservative councillors who lost their seats in the local elections "against a difficult national backdrop".

Earlier, the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, described his sadness at the party's results in elections which saw both the coalition parties suffer widespread losses.

Meanwhile Ed Miliband declared that Labour was "winning back people's trust" after a night of big gains across the country saw his party take control of several key councils, including Birmingham, Southampton, Plymouth, Reading, Norwich, Thurrock and Harlow.

With around half the votes counted for some 5,000 seats in 181 councils across England, Scotland and Wales, Labour had won control of 22 councils, racked up around 470 new seats and looked set for overall gains of more than 700. The Tories looked likely to lose more than 350 seats and the Liberal Democrats about 200. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/04/david-cameron-apologises-local-election

[99Forever]

1. Hopefully a ...

... a harbinger of things to come in the USA. Time to kick some Teapublican and "Blue Dog" ass.

[geckosfeet]

2. People are voting out the bums whose are imposing the austerity pogroms.

[fascisthunter]

3. bankers and their bought off politicians screw up the economy and then they use austerity

to put the tab on the little people. Arrogant.