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But wasn't there an election in some parts of the UK a few days ago where the Labour Party lost?
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Nice to see news from our Isle reaches Hades.
Yes Labour lost 800 councillors and the Conservatives gained 540 (with LibDem gaining 200).
The Conservatives would have this interpreted as the worse result for Labour in decades.
The reality is that the opposition party always does better at the local level, the Cons did so badly last time that they would have been truly awful not to make big gains, and the public wanted to send a small rebuke to Labour for going to war.
On the day of the elections a prominent Conservative MP resigned from his post saying that he could not follow such a bad leader as Mr. Duncan-Smith. This is the real story of their party. Utterly divided, with little momentum and no direction. New Labour may have been losing members (all parties are in our disillusioned age), but it still has plenty of sponsors and looks unstoppable.