Hello, and

and Josh.

Hello,

Hello to the podcast Loedaters, and today I'm joined by Carl, Hello, and Josh. Hello there. and and the Helldivers revolt. So, it'll be good.

I suppose I have no announcements, so let's begin.

Okay, well, I actually do have an announcement.

Quickly before we begin.

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Anyway, let's begin. There is no right-wing opposition in Britain.

It just doesn't exist. For some reason the British

public just won't vote for it. They won't vote for the Conservatives either. And so

everything is... We're going to turn into basically a labor ethnostate by the end of this, which is not great.

Anyway, it's not good news everyone.

Yeah, this is not good news. Sorry, happy Monday.

So I guess we'll begin with the local

elections oh no we will begin with the local elections but so to begin, there were 107 English Council elections held with more than 2,000 seats being

contested last week, 58 District Councils and 11 mayoralities well sorry 12 including the London mayor and so this is quite large but it's not the entire country, it's a significant portion and is good as a kind of

indicator of what future elections might look like and excuse me good for giving us a kind of weather vein on the mood of the country.

These elections are cyclical so the district councils typically elect a third of their seats on a four yearly cycle and it's not every

years, it's not every single one in this cycle. So as you can see it's kind of, you you know it's a portion of them and there's been a kind of air of

inevitability about all of this but very little exuberance in victory for the people who were inevitably going to win, which is of course the Labour Party,

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