By way of comparison, take a look at these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_Kingdom_local_elections Labour lost nearly two third of their seats, and won just 7% of the total. If one read st… (View Post)
Likewise, Peterborough, which the Conservatives nearly captured last year, before feuding among themselves, and many forming the Peterborough Independents. (View Post)
I stand corrected, but my impression was that most people who got elected as indepndents in rural Scottish authorities tended in reality to be Lib Dems or SNP, or genuinely unaligned. (View Post)
When I first got interested in politics, independents were very much a dying breed, along with Residents/Ratepayers. But, now, they seem to be on the up (a development I consider positive, in local e… (View Post)