Local Election Results REACT with Aaron + Michael

Hello and welcome to a special afternoon stream where me and Aaron are going to pour over the pretty momentous election results from last night. This isn't replacing Novar live this evening. We'll be doing that as well with more results and especially sort of lots of reaction. We're not going to show you any clips for this.

This is just results. Aaron Bastani and myself. Um Aaron, we'll bring up some detailed results in a moment. I suppose the big takeaways are that reform um won the runorn bi-election by six votes.

Um Karma didn't turn up by the way. So there are questions if if he had bothered maybe those six extra people would have turned out. Um of the of the five mayoral races that have so far declared reform comfortably won one of them. Labour very uncomfortably held free and the Tories won one from Labor and we'll go through some of the council elections as well.

Good for reform at the moment it seems. um your initial takeaways, Aaron, what do our viewers need to know? These are the most I think significant local election results in decades in decades. And that is with many many authorities having canceled their um their elections for this year because of merging of authorities, getting rid of authorities, the the Labor devolution program.

Notwithstanding that even with the paired back um elections we've seen utterly extraordinary. Michael I think what sticks out for me is the west of England which is on paper one of the most progressive parts of the country. You know this is part of the country if you look at the general election map of the last two elections really it's you know labor green libm Aaron Banks you know the most right-wing figure imaginable in the reform party heavily far coded came within 2% of winning that you know they came second it was a three-way between the Greens reform and labor I think that's really significant um and in the bi-election um this was a seat where Labour won more than 50% of the vote less than 12 months ago. They've just lost it like you say by six votes.

Maybe if star had gone they would have they would have kept it. But I went there and I actually saw in a hustings the reform candidate Sarah Pochin. She was deeply ...