Some positive news (129/365)

[white_hart]

While the local election results are mostly pretty dismal, I'm pleased to see that our county council has gone from Conservative-controlled to No Overall Control. And I'm glad that Sadiq Khan got back in as London Mayor, though I wish Count Binface had beaten the odious Fox.

Unfortunately I fear that England is just a deeply conservative country; it's no surprise that the only Labour leader to have won a general election in the last 40 years was Blair, who started off on the right wing of the party and moved further right as he went on. (I've just looked up the list of general election results on Wikipedia, and that makes it even clearer just how much Conservative governments are the norm and any other party - Liberal until World War 1, Labour since World War 2 - being in power is anomalous.)

Maybe I really should think about moving to Scotland in the hope of one day living in an independent Nordic-aligned state...

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[tree_and_leaf]

Yeah, me too. I'm pleased about the local mayoral results, but on the other hand our ward's result was awful (the Labour incumbent deserved to lose, as he was pretty inactive, but the Tory candidate who won is dreadful, and also completely inarticulate. I'd almost rather the UKIP candidate had won - he's a member of one of the other church councils in the team, and while his views on Europe are diametrically opposed to mine, he's at least competent on a committee).