It’s not that Labour won at the local elections, more that the Tories lost


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    3. In Manchester, the turn-out was around 20%, except for about three affluent wards, where the turn was about 40%. Meaning that, only about 1 in 5 of the electorate bothered voting. With the victor, being voted for by, in some cases, as little as 1 in 10 of the electorate. This is not democracy. Reinforced by the fact, we still have a head of state, born into that position, not by skills and merit. And an unelected Upper House.

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    4. The dirty game Liverpool’s Labour Party played against Sam Gorst, expelled from Labour ‘for supporting Jeremy Corbyn’, saw Sam instead run as an Independent with Sam gaining a resounding win in the recent May 2023 local elections for Gorston, Liverpool. With Independent socialist wins like Sam’s it makes one wonder whether true Left supporters whether MPs or councillors should en masse renounce Labour and go Independent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdV6-VNyq8

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