Labour lost a lot of young voters. Due to being caught out lying about student loans o get votes from young people in the last general election and also due to being pro brexit during the brexit referendum campaign.

... so how will they win a General Election?

... if only by pure default of the Conservatives ...

10 times as many seats, you presented them, then totally misrepresented them. Thats what happens when your repeating parrot fashion off the news though eh. 

Your comments are a misrepresentation though. You dont understand why i take it?

Nice, so they hit the magic 20 x as many losses as labour. Im sure the spinners will be in full statistical manipulation mode now. That or meltdown i guess.

hope so. Happy to just see the tories smashed to bits for now. 

Yeah, but to be fair, you should have spotted before posting really, and defo caught on a bit sooner. Its all about the bullshit misrepresentation of information though. Kinda feeding into how the media manipulate and fool people with piss poor statistical misrepresentations, and just plan old fashioned lies dressed up as fact. You fell for it, you shared it, you didnt even bother to check it. Hence what i said at the beginning about why labour didnt pick up more votes. It all feeds into the bigger story. 

ah ok, that makes it ok then. Obviously not a misrepresentation at all. 

No, it really doesnt make anything worse. Its not a great result, but its the difference between a slap round the face, and being hit by an 18 wheeler and getting dragged 5 miles down the road. Labour got a shot across the bows to say get it together, tories are going to need all the gorilla glue and masking tape in existence and all the kings horses and all the kings men on their A game, just to half put themselves back together. Are you going to go for "they won" next? hasnt come up as of yet, but the numbers sort of support it if you like it that way. 

Its pretty easy for labour to recover their losses, really cant say the same about the tories. Its locals, so many other random things in play, GE is a different game for labour, unlikely to be able to say the same for the tories after a kicking like that. Oh, and now the infighting should get really exciting too. 

Ive already said it wasnt a great result. Read what ive written already. I explained part of why its not so bad. Then there is a good bit of work by the greens and others. Added to that is the fact that although the lib dems pulled back a load of seats, they would still need to do the same again to challenge labour, so thats another record gain of over 600 seats they need, just to get to labours position re seats as they stand now. So they really are no great threat. Also that result will have crushed the will of the tories and probably sent a few more off in other directions again, they are in full meltdown. At the next GE you will also have the likes of far-rage involved again, so he is likely to add a split to the tory vote, that wasnt present in the locals. Labour voters who have protest voted in locals will most likely return to labour for the GE, so they will have an increased vote share while the tories will likely have a reduced vote share. Will that be enough to avoid a coalition, not so sure about that, but im pretty sure it will still put the tories out, so not at all as bad as some would like to suggest for labour. Catastrophic for the tories though. 

Those numbers i used are based on the locals too, so they only represent i think two thirds of the country. Which means the lib dems actually need to gain over 900 additional seats at a GE to pose a threat. And as there were no locals in london, thats a massive chunk labour leaning territory. 

I agree that this was disastrous for the Tories but I don't see anything promising from these results for Labour either. With the Tories in utter Chaos and the shambles over Brexit, Labour should be miles ahead in every constituency up and down the country. Everyone was expecting the Tories to do badly, even the Tories themselves. But Labour were expecting to scoop up at least half or two-thirds of the Tory losses. Labour should be gaining hundreds if not thousands of seats but instead they are losing seats. Even taking in to consideration the rise of the LibDems, Labour should still have gained a few hundred seats at the very least. You are correct, however, not to equate local elections too closely with a general election but all the indications do not look good for Labour right now. If you can't grab seats off the worst government we have had in living memory then what can you do?

Disclaimer: I might be off since from the aggregate one can miss important micro flows. But it looks to me that the outcome is very clear: 1) people’s vote adamant supporters win undoubtably big; 2) brexiters and enabling fudgers all lose to various degrees (from seismic to very disappointing).

Not sure how one can interpret the above as “people want Brexit delivered” as Tor-byns are spinning..,,