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This is CBS I Am The World.

I'm John Batchew with my colleague in French-Oss of Sternberg.

Remember the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal?

He writes the political economics column.

He's in London and he looks at all of Europe, but right now we're looking at a local election result.

That points to labor doing extremely well in the next general election.

I read from a column at the London Times by William Hague, a former leader of the Conservative Party.

And Mr. Hague is drawing the conclusion that it's not as bad as it could be.

In other words, the losses of over a thousand places in the local elections throughout the land are not as bad as they were in the mid-1990s when the Tories lost 2,000 seats.

Joe, this is hard to interpret other than the fact that the Tories clearly have lost the attention of the voters that put Boris Johnson into power after following Brexit.

Mr. Hague is saying it's not necessarily as bad as it looks.

Is it not as bad, Joe? What does losing a thousand seats in a local election mean for the general election ahead?

Yeah, this is I think pretty bad for the Conservative parties. I mean, we should quickly explain what's going on here and what this election was.

It's sort of like the closest you would get to an American style, state or local election because below the national government, the parliament and Westminster and the Prime Minister and all of that.

England has this patchwork of local councils, which is sort of the size of a town or a, you know, burrow in New York City in terms of their population and their geographic reach in these local councils are the bodies that are responsible for collecting the garbage and administering the local housing programs and catching the stray dogs and, you know, all of that sort of local management stuff.

And you shouldn't quite interpret these as if they were a US state election because really the consequences are a lot smaller, the federal, the national government in the UK still sets a lot of the policies that these councils live with, but it does serve as a political parameter.

And I think that the real message here, particularly in those parts of the north of England, the former industrial belt, which had really swung away from the Labour Party and toward the Conservatives in the national parliamentary election in 2019.

The local elections last week in these areas showed that those voters are prepared to come home to the Labour Party now that the Conservatives cannot take votes for granted in those areas were so instrumental to this Conservative Party success.

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