More than a million Londoners voted for Sadiq Khan.

Britain First's crybaby candidate was beaten by a satirical alien with a dustbin on his head.

The era of blowhard chancers like this governing the UK are coming to an end. The bigger question for Labour is reform m/regulation of the negus landscape. Do they court right wing press barons (Blair/Brown) or put manners on them?

Rishi Sunak will face pressure to adopt hard rightwing policies such as an immigration cap and scrapping European human rights law this week plus public whippings, deporting anyone who wasn't born in Britain, public floggings and removal of the state pension unemployment and…

Here is a very simple prediction. Labour will win the next UK GE with a very large majority because the Tories have burnt all their bridges and Sunak is a useless politician. And it will be a very good government, other than for a European blindspot.

Travelled further north still today. #Assynt

Still lovely and warm. A few passing clouds

It's striking how little analysis there's been of what the local elections mean for [*checks notes*] local government: what all those mayors & councillors might do, or why it matters who runs the West Midlands.

I get the reasons why, but it's a real problem for 'local democracy'

So, if I sent you an invitation to come and sit in the sacred circle with me, overlooking the land of my grandfathers — would you accept it?

My view of these #LocalElections2024 results is very simple (although not being spoken about much):

#Brexit was a #populist policy to get #Boris Johnson to power. It subsequently destroyed the #Tory party to become a confused right-wing cabal.

#Redwall voters are angry, with…

“you're not a Conservative party any more” is correct.

But not in the way Braverman thinks. Conservatism used to be pragmatic, conservative, centre-right. Now it’s an ideological sect of Brexit zealots and free-market fundamentalists.

I am not winning the snail/slug war!

Susan Hall's strategy of telling Londoners that they live in a crime-ridden, festering shit hole, that could only be improved with more cars and pollution might have gone down well with xenophobic bigots .... but it was never going to work in the place it mattered.

Laurence Fox was born in 1978.

Journalism should be about evidence gathering and analysis. Not recycling rumours from pals.

Otherwise you tend to get things spectacularly wrong....

#LocalElections2024

Returning Officers decide on recounts, not Parties. So Labour can[t refuse a recount.

But then facts aren’t Kate’s strong point. Or numbers. Or much else come to think of it.

Sadiq Khan is officially declared the winner in the London mayoral election with 1,088,225 votes, a majority of 276,707
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Laura Kuenssberg you really are toast. Your Tory bias just became a joke. Time to do the right thing. Of course you will gut chucked out when…

The points Macron makes in this interview came up in several conversations I’ve had over the last few months - when the same points are made by different knowledgable people, I listen. The consensus appears to be that the chance of NATO being drawn into conflict in Europe with…

BingoBraverman giving SluiceGateSunak advice when he can already get that from JumbleBumble Johnson, TankTheEconomyTruss, MayDayMayDay or even CaughtBehindCameron.
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Oh look Laura Kuenssberg

An honest journalist 👇

Wouldn't it be nice, just for a change, if a party leader came out & said, 'Yes, those were disappointing results. People are unhappy with us & we need to understand why. We will now go & analyse our mistakes, learn, & return with better policies & communication'.

I dreamed there were mayoral elections in England and Labour won yesterday's vote count. Clearly not.

#NewsBlackout