At 1.30am

Labour faces worst local council result in 30 years, losing perhaps to 270 seats according to Times predictions. A stunning result for the Conservatives in Bury, where they have won David Cameron's top target. This is the first proper evidence of a Tory breakthrough in the north.

Comments

When the Govt. starts calling David Cameron a shallow salesman I would sooner choose him rather than the then Chancellor who sold our gold reserves at a rock bottom price
John

[harold]

go Boris.
love the guardian stuff telling people to be scared of him.
anyone the left is scared of is going to be better for the working person and not the socialist elite!

[michael wilson]

I will not vote for anyone who has any religion. If they can believe lies, what am I supposed to get from them?

[MN]

Am I missing something but why when the rest of the country can provide the results of the elections by the morning, do we in London have to wait till this evening? I for one always try to vote - I feel it is a great privilege and after so many times still feel the buzz of walking into the polling station, announcing my name and address and making my mark on the ballot paper. However this morning instead of participating in the feeling of joy/sorrow and feeling I was part of that, I am not just left feeling empty but feeling that the rest of the country has continued in the tradition of our great democracy whereas London has decided to follow the example of Mugabe.....and that feeling with be reinforced if the other friend of Venezuela's Chavez, ie. Mr.Livingstone, gets back in.

[Trevor Smith]

When is this Goverment going to learn theycannot keep soaking money from hard working people,and making it easy for the ones that could work but donot.

[John Howells]

Mr. Wilson's comment regarding religious candidates is flawed. Religion is a matter of belief - you have it or you don't. 'Lies' is the wrong word here, unless he believes them.

[Sam Davis]

Hopefully both Mr Johnson and Mr Cameron will now bone up on classical market liberalism, dipping into Hayek and Friedman, and come up with policies that truly differentiate the Tories from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

[David West]

KEN ..HAD to go. After two terms, and given cronyism etc.,Labour came in on an anti-sleeze ticket!
London does not need a Life Mayor...Ken would be running for a fourth term if he had his way...and more!! Perhaps now London will stop acting like a seperate country...overseas trade deals, representative offices (London Embassies..?).