Why did voters desert the UK Conservatives in local elections? | Inside Story
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- After a landslide win in the last general election--
the UK's governing Conservative Party's support collapses in local elections in England.
Gains for the Labour Party - dented however by its stance on the war on Gaza.
So, how significant are these election results?
Presenter: Neave Barker
Guests:
Chris Wilkins - a former Director of Strategy for Prime Minister Theresa May.
Peter Geoghegan - Journalist, Broadcaster and Author of 'Democracy For Sale'.
Alistair Jones - Associate Professor of Politics at De Montfort University in Leicester.
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‘Why did voters desert Conservatives’, my first thought, have I got time to watch this three hour long list.
Decades of spending taxpayer money on counterproductive wars whilst neglecting citizens at home may also have much to do with it!
All to do with it
And embezzling a fair amount over the COVID years!
@@liveontheverandah ... and beyond!
Kier Starmer Doesnt want to upset the Labour frienda of Israel that will destroy his leadership just as they did Corbyn. The antisemitism charge was shown to be completely bogus. Your perpetuating a lot of false narrative here!
lol i'm a labour supporter but that is kinda funny concidering it was Blair that done the counterproductive wars, the rest just pretty much occured
All they talk about is immigration......No mention of building houses or investment in the country.
All the rightwing has is racism and fascism to offer, ran and controlled by Bankers, and Labour is controlled by Israel, GREAT F+×KIN CHOISE they've given us
@@hohohohehehe6910 So you think anyone concerned that they cant get on the housing list or afford a home because of out of control numbers coming here makes that person a fascist? Are you for real?
@maccagrabme what are you talking about, you cretin?
The Tories are fascist because they have fascist opinions about how to run the country. Which is why they want to deport asylum seekers and which is why they only care about immigration. They have gaslit gullible followers like you into believing a load of lies about immigrants and why you can't get a house. There is no evidence that they're to blame for any of it. It's just easier to point their finger of blame at them so that their gammon followers don't blame the party that started all of this rubbish in the first place.
@maccagrabme my reply was deleted. What a surprise. That's not what I said at all. I was talking specifically about how the Tory party only care about feeding red meat to their voters. There is no evidence that immigrants have affected your inability to get a house.
Get him out now
He needs to go
They all need to go, Cruella has been let out her box to put the blame on Sunak as a distraction from 14 years of destruction by a gang of sociopaths.
they will send him to Rawanda in 2025
What do your ordinary working class families want instead, or does the left hate them too?
Judging by the number of veiws, there would be plenty of people wanting to offer rooms and board? Appear not to be the case?
Still, you comment sounds 'cool'.
Rwanda*
Anybody ever wonder why politicians net worth always increases and regular citizens net worth dramatically decreases no matter what's going on?
Yup I have for quite a few years. Two cheeks of the same backside to quote G G.
If you want a specific example, I live in Mid-Bedfordshire. Why would I vote for someone selected from within and by the bunch of fools who repeatedly selected Nadine Dorries? After she repeatedly, undeniably showed her disinterest and contempt for doing the job she was elected to?
Send sunak to Devil island ..Papillon is waiting for him...😂😂 sunak head is bigger than his body...he is falling down...
😂😂 he looks like a big-head cartoon character 😂😂
the didi dictator
Kick out this Rishi sunak, he is not eligible for this position sent to jail
An Indian is always an Indian,and can never be an Englishman
Significant results alright. Sunak is on the way out
Why ill tell you why today 2 roofs collapse on a hospital which had to be evacuated. People can't see a nhs dentist unless they go private. Doctors only telephone people for appointments. We gave 3 billion to Ukraine money that could of been used to fix raac in schools. The rivers are full of sewage. Whole areas desolate rubbish everywhere. The list goes on and on. Rishi get the message go
This India guy really need to call for GE and get lost
@@tofurakhanom2644 now now chap it's nothing to do with were he is from its clearly he has self intrest
@@user-tx1rr3rb1q well said
@@user-tx1rr3rb1q He is still working on an India UK trade agreement, that's why he's hanging on in there to the death. Who will that benefit? His wife's relatives.
They leaned this from their Master” Joseph gobbled “.
Taxes (including council tax) is at a all time high - Tories out
Taxes at a all time high, public services at an all time low. They always accuse labour of being the tax and spend party. But the Tories are the tax and embezzle party. I'd rather be taxed and see that money spent on public services that i need rather than be taxed and see that money disappear into the off shore bank accounts of millionaire friends of the government
Free Palestine
Because we know it's a class issue and not a race issue like the right wing media want us to believe but we all want to and do live in peace together and what we ALL want is jobs, a decent health care for all, affordable housing and sensible polices regarding everything else like the environment, education etc - also call for a ceasefire in Gaza now
Absolutely perfectly put ❤
There is no way any of that is going to happen with an influx like this of 1m per year, there cant possibly have enough housing, health care or stability in society, let lone any future planning with the mahem going on currently which is the main concern of anyone voting Reform. But you on the left think we are all racist and you dont seem to understand the correlation of too many in equates to fewer and fewer resources, why is that?
We hate him. We also hate Starmer
@@foppo101 there's too many suckers in the UK - reading (believing) the mail watching the beeb. As long as donners and think tanks control institutional msm we'll forever be shuffling the same bs mp's. The clamp down on the Internet is proof that no change is all we have in store
Hate the policies, broken promises, and corruption . Not the individuals.
@@helenpauls1496 ha. It's them and their team thinking them up
@@50_Pence True, but so much individual hate around that was trying to divert it to the actual problems.
That guy always enjoyed his highly privileged life. You think he cares about the normal people? Lol.
This refreshing to see a news outlet that isn’t called in the war on Gaza a Muslim issue. It is not it is a humanitarian issue. The labour party should take that on board. It is not behaved very well recently either.
The labour party never had a problem with antisemitism, it never did. Unfortunately some can’t tolerate a party having an empathy Palestinian. One of it’s s candidates suspended for antisemitism is actually Jewish. How ridiculous is that?
israel lobbyists pay too well.
The Muslim vote came out to make their voices heard.
Because people are tired of the hard right creating more problems and just not doing there job and it's on a global scale
you are a fool, what hard right? the tories are neo liberal...
So much depression due to Sunak
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. A women with cat whiskers makeup casually walking into Tesco with her pajamas. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets.
It's a sad declined country.
thats why UK needs to take in thousands of mideast refugees so that shariah law can clean up the mess
refugees aren't the problem. The problem is your government wanting you to believe it's all because of this external cause- it certainly has nothing to do with the politics of last ten years, noooo ....
Du warst in England 😅😅😅komm hör auf 😊Europa erwacht genau wie Australien Amerika Schweden Dänemark Ost Europa geht einfach nach Gaza Demonstrieren 😮😮
😂😂😂😂😂😂@@richardgillette5759
@@richardgillette5759Stop being a Bigot and open your mind the middle eastern people are not in Britain if any are it’s a minimal minority, the majority of immigrants are Indian and Pakistani not Eastern Europeans or from the Middle East you fool.
Please make a 5-8 minute piece. I haven't got 30 minutes to spare for analysis of British conservatives
'they suck, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer' there, summed it up for you!
What going on here?
Rwanda is not working 😂😂😂
Hahaha yes Rwanda it's not working for conservative
1/2 a billion spent to send 1 person there. what a farce.
Foreign Nations and Countries think that we the British people are in charge of what our government do? Think again, and this is the major issues as our economies are sinking!
Dragging up anti-semitism?
Desperate stuff
From slimey sunak to slimey statmer...god help us all.
Because they are corrupt to the core.
We want GEORGE GALLOWAY!
People are waking up around the world. I’m American and was hopeful until Mike Johnson pushed through aid to the forever wars around the world. That blackpilled me. Good luck.
Sunak and Biden needs to go free free Palestine.
why?
@@richardgillette5759 Seriously!?
I’ll fix it for you. It will be bye-bye Palestine if Biden loses. So many fools walk this earth.😂
Send them to Ukraine since they love Ukraine so much they ought to fight for that country.
I do not think the Labour Party will be any better on Gaza and the West Bank. Remember what Starmer and his MPs have done so far.
Because it's the nasty party.
Its time for Scotland become real county in independence so that much better and easy life , ok
Refugees Welcome in Germany, bring your family 🌈❤️🥰🇩🇪💞🌈
😂😂😂😂😂
Love u
yet you sell israel 30% of their weapons and make it illegal to support palestine.
Funny thing how nobody mentions the Brexit anymore : )
Labour ❤❤❤
Labour is not the answer
still loads better than the tories
Did we ever have a labour government since the 1970s. I always saw Tony Blair as a clever opportunist who couldn’t care less for labour principles, add to that unfortunately he was also a extreme narcissist that was only concerned about the financial benefits he would reap by taking this country to war knowing full well of the loss of life to both British service lives, Iraqi lives, at the expense of the British economy.
As for Keir Stormer? It’s another narcissist of the extreme, how could he manage to fool anyone, sure he has help from the media owned by mostly tax dodging billionaires with their own agenda, but really their is no Labour Party except in name only.
Not surprised at all.
This man must not voted in to lead UK. No way
Because everyone now wants a better life paid for by others.
nope. we dont want the rich to get richer at everyone else's expense.
“Why did voters desert Conservatives” - do we really need to debate this? Shouldn’t it be obvious to everyone? Surely we as a nation have that sanity and intelligence right?
remember, most people didnt vote for the tories. yet they usually win.
Well that might help the palestinians britain abstained in unsc vote in support observer state palestine ehy then are they not unilaterally supporting it same as other yes votes
israel pay the tories too well.
Andy Street was expected to win, because he’s a good man. He’s not a typical Tory
Maybe he'll stand as an independent next time.
Sunderland red🎉🎉🎉
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 stop the genocide 🇵🇸
They ask for that, u mess with stronger party u get crushed.
Go there in palestine and protest, stop protesting in uk about palestine issues.
@@samirdoncic6395 Well since you are British, you should know about the Balfour Declaration, Pal1s, where living there in peace, with Jews and Christians, until your colonialist gov took Pal1stine to create Esrael.... education is key if you gonna talk about politics.
@@buddymx163 and ok they dont need to accpet it, i completely understand, but dont cry when u get hit back after u commit genocide
Like 3 comments were deleted, cant even have discussion on this yt
I’m appalled by both of mainstream parties in England. I hoped better of Starter. I unexpected the tourist to behave just how they are. They have proven to be very racist racist and divisive.
if people think labor is gonna safe the day, oh boy, they got another thing coming!
it will still be an improvement over the useless, corrupt tories
free palestaine
Rishi who?
If rishie it gone good for uk good for the western democracies he is little man or actually a little boy in a office he doesn’t belong
why qatar don't became democracy ,
Dead man walking...
😂
❤💙💚💛💜
Gays for Gaza
I will not vote Labour until Kier Starmer resigns I will vote independent instead.
wasted vote then.
General election is totally different, I think PM Sunak sorted out what there shortfalls because he done better for his his country.
I think your coping there buddy. Conservatives are gonna lose pretty badly. I think the general election will see reform over take lib Dems by 1 or 2%. I think it's likely labour will win but I think a reform conservative coalition is a possibility albeit a small one
No
lol. what you smoking bro? hes made everything worse!
TRUMP STRONG !! like ManlyManPootin & Talibans & nate&Yahoo
VOTE TRUMP/SANTOS 2024 - THE ONLY LAW&ORDER CANDIDATES
lol.
I will never vote for Labour as long as I live so all these idiots who thing we will be scared of the right wing Tories and always vote for Labour will see how strong we are.
Bye bye, don’t forget to close the door behind you!
things were far better when labour were in last time!
deserted them because they are corrupt liars
Ha Ha Ha Ha 🤣😂😂😅 out India ( Rishi Sunak) from Britain 😂😅😊😮
Free Palestine