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Conservatives lost more council seats than Labour in UK local elections

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-elections-2016-results-in-full-council-seats-conservative-tory-labour-jeremy-corbyn-a7019041.html Despite all the attention on local elections as a test of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Conservatives have lost more council seats than Labour It is not really surprising, how the unlikely bed fellows of some elements of the PLP and the media generally can ignore fact, in pursuit of their own agenda's to remove the leadership of the Labour party. It is a campaign which has been raging since the summer of last year, but with the predicted loss of 200+ Labour council seats failing to materialise, the combined “anti Corbyn” conspirators are faced with, for them, the worrying probability that that are and have been wrong and that the Labour leadership enjoys more support amongst ordinary people than they could possibly imagine. The reality that the Conservatives lost more council seats than Labour, must have come as a grea...

Labour vote holds well in England, despite what some in the PLP have been predicting.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/06/jeremy-corbyn-defies-critics-labour-local-elections Jeremy Corbyn defies critics with Labour set to hold its ground in England The losses at last nights elections are not as significant for the Labour party as Mann, Cooper, Hunt, Hodge and a few others within the Parliamentary Labour Party, have been plotting and wishing for since the summer of last year. They, aided and encouraged by sections of the media, have been waging the most vitriolic and abusive campaign against the leadership of the Labour party with the objective of removing Jeremy Corbyn and those who support him. In this objective they have clearly failed, as by their own measure of what would constitute justification for removing the leadership, they have fallen short of their targets. Not that this will prevent them and an hysterical media circus from claiming that the Labour party is doomed and that only new leadership will prevent the party from descen...