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The areas are:

1. Norwich District Council

2. Waltham Forest

3. Hackney

4. Lewisham

5. Hastings

Iris Duane referred to monarch as ‘big lizard Lizzie’ in social media post seven months before Elizabeth II died

Restore Britain have won all ten seats in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk County Council elections. Leader Rupert Lowe’s constituency and the only place in which candidates have stood…

A Restore Britain Spokesperson said:

“The people of Great Yarmouth have spoken loud and clear. They want real change, not more of the same failed politics from Westminster. This clean sweep of all 10 seats is a massive vote of confidence in our local team and in the Restore Britain movement. We ran on commonsense policies: securing our borders, cutting waste, protecting British jobs for local workers, and always putting Great Yarmouth first. Today, the voters of Great Yarmouth delivered a landslide. This is just the beginning.”

Candidates stood for “Great Yarmouth First” which is the ‘local arm’ of Restore. 🇬🇧

No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council areas are nothing more than was expected. The bigger story of the night is the failure of the Greens to make any meaningful breakthrough.

The Greens are only really doing well in student areas. This shouldn’t come as any great surprise, as they have been leading in the polls among 18 to 24 year olds. Their policies could not be better tuned to stirring student activists: climate change, Palestine, as well as declaring war on billionaires and small-time landlords. Yet their policies, similarly, could not be better calculated to offend Red Wall voters. They want to ban horse-racing and make driving a privilege rather than a right and force motorists to retake a test every five years. Just try selling that to white van man.

Reform UK is succeeding as an insurgent party of the Right and Left. Moreover, while they have their bitter enemies, who see the party as a grave threat to the nation, those enemies are not sufficiently numerous nor organised to damage Reform. Farage’s party may never get much over 30 per cent of the vote, but in a four or five party, first past the post system, that is an extremely powerful proportion of the popular vote.

Labour may well dump Starmer as a result of these elections. It will do them no good whatsoever; merely make them look riven by internecine warfare, just as the Tories did in their latter years. But then neither do the Greens look in any position to capitalise. Reform UK has now firmly established itself as the favourite to win the next general election, quite possibly with a good working majority. 🇬🇧