Politics are changing
It has been a while but with all the events going on at home and across in France I felt that I had to make a comment. Starting at home. This week saw heavy losses for both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the local council elections and some great gains for Labour. In fact Labour took over 800 seats when their target was 300 and gained control of 32 councils including important areas such as Southampton and Birmingham. The Lib Dems saw their number of seats drop nationally to below 3000 for the first time since c.1988 and the Tories lost around 400 seats nationally as well. Even in my area Labour added a seat to the one gained last year and support seems to be up generally. With this news comes a warning though. For a start the national turn out was just around 32%. This is one of the lowest on record and may highlight a number of issues. For a start it could show that people are fed up with mainstream politics and for lack of an alternative decided not to vote.