Today is voting day .
What is the likely outlook ?
After 12 years of Tory government is Britain a better place ?
Thoughts ?
Difficult to say, we been “Global” so long.
What has the Tory government done for Britain ?
It’s such a shame that in these 12 years we have had no plausible opposition party .
Labour continues to shoot itself in the foot .
Look at the latest Labour scandel this womans anti semitic tweet .
What I want to know is why an Ecuadorean ( ? ) woman a British MP anyway ?
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Plausibility is a bit thin on the ground on all fronts.
Yes it is I would nt believe Boris if he told me the time of day .
If one asked Keir Starmer he would not give a definite answer .
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No, I think it’s far worse place and they’ve made us into a country without standards or integrity that doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong
That comes from having self-serving “leaders” who don’t know the difference between right and wrong and the Tory fangirls and fanboys who keep right on supporting them
Chumocracy, corruption, back handlers and jobs for the boys, even over things like PPE for Covid And thinking the rules don’t apply to them, only to the peasants
And an I’m Alright Jack mentality with no compassion or empathy for anyones hardships as long as they can keep their own snouts in the trough
It’s been a disgusting 12 years that has debased and degraded our country
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At least we have not gone bankrupt with no reserve funds,because that is what would /will happen if labour get into power like they did last time. Some people have short memories
we don’t vote today so what are you on about?
I was under the impression it was voting for local elections today .
not around here it’s not Muiddy
I agree things would likely to be just as difficult under labour with Mr Sit On The Fence Starmer as Prime Minister but no one in their right mind can believe that what the Tories have done over the past 12 years and in particular the last 2/3 have been good for the country really and needs to get some help. The financial mismanagement has been appalling it was the poor the sick the vulnerable the elderly who bore the brunt after the financial crisis of 2008 and the same people will be hit just as bad in this crisis.
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Belgica Flor Guana Ruilachamin is not an MP. She a Labour and Co-operative Party candidate, standing for reelection as a councillor, in the local election in Canning Town South in the London Borough of Newham.
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For the very first time in ages I shan’t be voting. When politicians of all sides make false promises the words stop meaning anything, there are no more solutions, only better and bigger lies, I honestly believe that all politicians are in it for the power and perks and they will say anything, promise everything to get my vote. I am just a tick on the ballot form, and no longer a person.
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@realspeed , Where did you get that from RS ??
NOT bankrupt ???
Where are these cash reserves you talk about ??
We are, and have been living on borrowing for years now !
Any reserves we ever had have been frittered away by successive
government’s , not only the Tories !!
Our borrowing is is supported by private bankers that eventually demand
their pound of flesh !
Our government’s only use us to garuantee repayments to the banks
through our future taxes !!
At the moment we are in a difficult place as Rishi over borrowed to pay
for covid, now we have the Ukranian / Russian issue which is likely to put
us into more borrowing plus the huge rise in energy prices due to this war !!
We are in the shyte now allthough you wouldn’t think so to hear this government
talking in billions every day !!
Donkeyman! 
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The media tends to focus on the two head boys, which leads me to have to figure out what, if anything, the rest of the HOC is doing.
There must be some real, dedicated, people in there, but I don’t hear enough about it to think the system works.
Nit picking rules the roost.
Sadly, the respect is lost because of Party Gate, and the actions of both major parties in denying their role in it.
Forget Covid, Ukraine, Budget Management, think only of the petty!
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We aren’t having local council elections here - ours were two years ago. So the results won’t accurately reflect the whole country.
Quite … 
Tue 26 Apr 2022 08.35 BST
Britain’s gradual emergence from the Covid-19 pandemic meant government borrowing more than halved in the latest financial year but remained the third highest on record, the latest official figures show.
The Office for National Statistics said the gap between the state’s revenues and its spending stood at £151.8bn in the 12 months to March, down from £317.6bn in the previous year.
According to the ONS, the national debt – the accumulation of borrowing over time – stood at £2.3tn at the end of last month, just over 96% of the economy’s annual output. Interest payments on the debt rose to a record of just under £70bn.
Michal Stelmach, a senior economist at KPMG UK, said: “The outlook for borrowing naturally looks better in comparison to the pressures that pushed it up during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last financial year alone, the government’s coronavirus job retention and the self-employment income support schemes together cost the taxpayer £17bn, while NHS test and trace added a further £16bn. These schemes have now been phased out.”
All those billions wasted making Tory cronies millionaires … 
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I’ll be voting for a local councillor - the person I think will do the best job, regardless of which party they belong to.
There seems to be much more campaigning and National media interest over these local elections than there usually is for local elections. From all the talk, one would think our vote for a local councillor was a vote for or against the PM or current government.
The current Tory government in Westminster may be shambolic but my local Council seem to do a good job of running local affairs - whether the government has been Tory or Labour, there has been a Tory majority council at District and County level in my area for as long as I can remember, whichever party is in government at Westminster.
If there is a Tory majority again after this local election, I wouldn’t take that as endorsement of the current government or of Boris as PM - it is an endorsement of the local Tory councillors, nothing more than that.
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For some reason which I have never been able to determine I have 4 councillors and have found that I can rank them in order of uselessness. Two do not even bother to answer emails sent to them with a local problem.
Worst on the list is The Green party, followed by the SNP then Labour, my Tory councillor has always responded and got things done.
Now I stay it what is now called a less affluent area but am bordered by very affluent areas and it seems these area get a better representation than my area.
But overall my council is shocking one only has to look at the absolute fiasco that is the trams, the first section cost as much as the whole route was supposed to cost and was years late, there is a farce of an inquiry going on but that is pretty much going nowhere and guaranteed no one will be held accountable so much so that the council has decided that they must build the rest of the route and with that in mind we have had traffic chaos in on a major thoroughfare in Edinburgh.