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The eireann wa delegation wrote:

I suppose you can take some comfort that the Tories were decimated in this local council election.

At least we get to vote with PR in the European election, and I gotta say I'm hyped to see the results of the E.U. election in the U.K. and watch how well the Brexit Party perform.

While it is almost impossible to verify because of the sheer numbers, geographic spread, and non-prominence of most council members I think the Conservative loses are overblown. Almost all of the losses in seats for the Conservatives were to independents, but who are they? Disaffected Tories mostly who are frustrated at May/Brexit or whatever and ran/were voted in as a protest and who, if the Conservatives get some guts and a good leader in the coming months, are likely to return to their voting ranks and who are likely more conservative than centrist and, therefore, won't vote for socialists or Greens most of the time, if ever.