Local elections: Labour make gains in England and Wales

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5. Google Steve Moxon

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And you'll see that he's clearly a very nasty piece of work.

As to the BNP, they have done very badly (hooray!) but it's noticable in places like Barnsley that candidates who stood for the BNP last time out are now standing for the English Democrats so there's clearly been mass defections.

No suprise that in Sheffield Labour continued to make significant gains off the Liberal Democrats. The thing I kept hearing was how underhanded and negative the Lib Dem's campaigning was in Sheffield. Former Council leader Paul Scriven got beaten into 3rd place by Labour & Greens in his ward.

Sheffield, like most places voted "No" to an elected mayor, although Doncaster voted to keep the position. Not suprising when the referendum campaign in Sheffield was pretty much non existant.

Personally I'm glad that Sheffield voted No. I'm not opposed to elected mayors in principle but the actual proposals were much too vague about the Mayor's powers, ran a severe risk of making the excutive less accountable then it should be, and also there was the question about whether the Mayor's remit might extend outside Sheffield's borders which would go down like a lead balloon where I live.