Localscast: ‘Stop the Small Votes’ Fails

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Despite the Tories’ best efforts at damage control they still got utterly trounced at the locals. Stopping boats didn’t work (in any way whatsoever) and neither didn’t stopping votes. So while Sunak will be moping, should the rest of us – and Starmer in particular – celebrate? Or are the results a little more confusing than that? Andrew, Ros and Naomi discuss. “Without question it has been a very bad night for the Conservatives.” – Naomi Smith “It’s very clear lots of Conservatives just stayed at home.” – Naomi Smith “There is no possibility of Johnson coming back, it’s his friends trying to humour him. It’s pathetic.” – Ros Taylor “It’s clear Starmer would be different. But what would he do? Labour needs to answer that.” – Ros Taylor “How incredible that the Tories did this badly even with their voter suppression activities in place. How much worse would they have done without it?” – Naomi Smith “Any thwarted vote is a disgrace. It’s straightforwardly awful to turn people away.” – Ros Taylor Tell the Government what you think about its Voter ID rollout: https://www.bestforbritain.org/voter_id_shambles_tell_the_government_what_you_think www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ros Taylor and Naomi Smith. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to an oh god what now extra cast Anandru Harrison and we're going to
0:10.3	look at the 2023 local election results here with the official Ogwyn swingometer I have
0:15.2	two of Britain's foremost suffologists. Hello Nomi Smith CEO of Best of Britain how are you?
0:20.2	Hi Anandru I am not a suffologist. How's your swingometer?
0:24.0	That is misleading. It is swinging around the place because we're recording this before the final
0:30.0	tally is in but hopefully we can still say some interesting things for our listeners.
0:34.7	Also jumping around in front of a swinging pendulum it's podmasters contributing editor
0:38.8	Ros Taylor. Hi Ros. Hello Anandru I am also not a suffologist but can I just say why aren't there
0:44.0	any female suffologists that I can name? They are all male it's very bad.
0:48.8	There's a gap in the market there. I'm not a suffologist but I play one on TV. So right the results
0:53.7	are still coming in but the headline appears to be a complete kicking for the conservative party.
0:58.6	The last time these seats were contested was in 2019 when Theresa May was absolutely on
1:02.4	our arson about to be forced out. The Tories lost more than 1,300 seats then somehow they're
1:06.8	losing yet more now. At the time of recording the Tories have lost 156 seats.
1:12.3	Labour had taken Swindon Plymouth, Stoke on Trent, Medway and East Staffordshire councils.
1:16.6	The Lib Dems have taken straffin on Avan, Windsor, Maidenhead and South Hams and Kirstama says
1:22.2	his party's on course to win the next general election. Nomi he would say that wouldn't he?
1:26.0	But is he rise? Well listen I think a lot of things and as listeners will know
1:34.1	I am one that will always try to exercise caution and don't take anything for granted but without
1:41.8	question it has been a very bad night for the conservatives. Yes however if you cast your minds back
1:50.4	and many of our listeners will be too young I'm sure to remember this but we had the post poll tax
1:59.1	local elections in the early 90s when the conservatives did appallingly badly and went on to win
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