Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party

[Paigntonian]

Forecast: will get nowhere in the local and regional parliament elections Place your bets, ladies and gents.

[novalis]

They will probably keep their majority on the council here in Oldham.

[davebro]

We'll see - main opposition party usually does well in mid-term council elections.

[Paigntonian]

novalis: candidates might be given a volume of Starmer's stunning speeches.

[Paigntonian]

davebro: Make a prediction.

[novalis]

The main opposition are the Lib-Dems who do well in the area where I live but not across the borough.

[Paigntonian]

novalis. Still not had a prediction of how well the Parties might do. Shown you mine, show me yours.

[novalis]

I can speak only for Oldham. Labour keep control with Lib-Dems in second place.

[gollob]

Conservatives to take Hartlepool in by-election ending 60 years of Labour winners

[ToraToraTora]

opposition parties tend to do well in mid term elections so Captain H would be expecting a good result, a bad one would not bode well.

[Sunk]

There has been no politics for the past year so I cannot see much changing.
There will be no shocks either way. It will be a huge non event. Everyone will claim it as good for their party precisely because buggerall will have changed.

[jourdain2]

Against the usual run of things; I don't think they'll make much progress. Probably much of the status quo. I don't say that I agree with this- I would like to see a stronger opposition to the power-craze that seems to appertain at the moment.

[emmie]

Sadiq Khan Labour man, will get in as Mayor, making it his second term - much good that he has done, which means not a lot.

[emmie]

Labour will take our local area, though camden is quite a left wing borough for some unknown reason.

[emmie]

SKS is our local MP for Holborn i believe

[ichkeria]

I was looking at the London mayoral candidates. Sadiq Khan, politically if not physically, is head and shoulders above the others and will win easily. Didn’t the Tories try to deselect their man at one point?
You have to hand it to UKIP: a candidate called Peter Gammons. You could not make it up (tho maybe someone is?)
Outside London Labour will struggle. This is not their time, especially with everyone getting their Boris vaccine.

[emmie]

sadiq khan is a waste of space, but London has a sizeable asian population who will likely vote him back in. I never know what to make of the man. Not only that Shaun Bailey isn't credible, he's not been so visible as Khan.

[ichkeria]

I like Sadiq Khan a lot. I know he has his critics. It would be odd if he did not, and knife crime has been his Achilles heel, but he’s a high profile sensible, moderate politician of the sort Labour desperately needs back in Parliament once London has been and gone.

[emmie]

He is a self serving egotist. He hasn't been good for the capital - though currently he has no opposition.

[ichkeria]

A bit like his predecessor? ;-)

At least if he’s a waste of space he’s wasting a lot less than some of the others ...

[emmie]

you like him - i don't.