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Thrupp (Stroud) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 67.5% (+3.1) ➡️ RFM: 16.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 7.3% (-10.3) 🌹 LAB: 5.8% (-12.3) 🔶 LDM: 2.8% (New) 💷 UKIP: 0.3% (New) Green HOLD. Changes w/ 2024.

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Interesting thing is that Greens won the Gorton and Denton by-election by adopting policies on which Starmer became Labour leader. Since then he has abandoned all pledges, alienated base party support and has been chasing Reform voters.

He's now portraying those policies as 'extremism' too, which demonstrates not only that he was cynically lying when he stood on them, but that he regards the majority of his own party (those who haven't joined the Greens yet at least) as unacceptable extremists

Congratulations to the wise and wonderful people of Thrupp #stroud. You’ve elected a committed, honest, compassionate and energetic councillor who will work tirelessly for you all. What a win!

Is two votes a record low? For parliamentary by-elections nobody since 1918 has ever had less than Yolande Kenward's three votes in North Shropshire in 2021, but councils are a different beast I suppose. Can anyone find an example of a candidate getting a single vote (or none at all?)

It's easier writing your name on a nomination form someone gives you than it is to stop watching GB Views and actually go to the polling station and vote. That's my guess.

I feel that a bubble has burst. That people have had enough. Why? Labour have been such a dishonest letdown? The water scandal that is eating our wealth and poisoning our country? The uber-super-extra wealthy still not paying tax?

Water companies own BILLIONS of debt.If it is nationalised UK will have to pay those debts but something has to be done. Where the rich are concerned the tax system has to be changed where they pay FAR more than they do.

Channel Four's docudrama "Dirty Business" is shocking to watch, although about 20 years ago I was walking the south Devon coast and found a secluded bay with no road access, the beach was full of tampons, condoms, salmon pink toilet paper (that must have been a popular colour choice back then).