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...

Comments

[naraht]

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

I can't say you're the only one who's thinking that...

[cmcmck]

There may be future advantages in my being married to a Scot and us possessing a Scottish marriage cert.

I also have Scottish ancestry myself.

[sir_guinglain]

I don't think England is that conservative, really, or at least no more than anywhere else. Its conservatism is of a kind which tends to stick together and which is helped by FPTP, while its radicalism is more fissiparious...

[sollers]

Over the last year I have been more and more thankful to have moved to Wales.

[nineveh_uk]

TBH I've avoided seeing any more of the news than the headlines. It just all feels too much at the moment.

[joyeuce]

My local wards went to the residents' association, which is pleasing in some ways as they have a track record of getting things done, but they are mostly ex-Conservatives who got fed up with the local party, and the Conservatives still have overall control of the county.

[lokifan]

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

Yep :/ Siiiigh. I miss London so much when I'm not here, but jeez. At least here we have Sadiq, even if Bailey did upsettingly well and Fox got SO much more attention than he merits.

Have moved to Bromley - well, Penge - and I live in the wrong-side-of-the-tracks bit but there's a posh bit nearby so it's very Tory at council level :(