Comment on Zack Polanski declares two-party politics dead after Hackney mayoral win
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Was listening to the BBC brief this morning and they mentioned Conservatives, Labour, and Reform. Absolutely nothing about the Green Party at all.
Love my British political news coverage.
Because the greens are marginal. c.1300 seats now, against LAB c.4400, CON c.3700, LIB c.3300 and REF c.2400.
They had a modest +400 increase this time, but Reform are the big winners with +1400.
So the two parties of government are still the two parties of local government, Reform are the upstarts, and Greens remain in the mid-tier.
because the greens didn’t do that well
reform did astonishingly well
Greens performed exactly in-line with projections. Average of the projections from Reform put them at 1625 seats, so they missed it by ~200.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Ferrari on LBC talked about every other party, too. I’m sure the anodyne interview with Caroline Lucas at about 7am will be LBC’s justification of balanced coverage.