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Q: When is it OK for Conservative councillors to post racist jokes about “brown” people being “lazy” “dogs”? A: When reinstating them helps Tories win a local council. LOL As certain disgruntled Labour Party figures join Conservatives and much of the media in portraying a Labour council victory  (Labour up 77 to 2,350 councillors as Tories lose 33 councillors – down to 1,332 - see below) as a shameful defeat. And Jeremy Corbyn’s enemies line up to blame him for...

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President Trump mocks Paris terrorist outrage and tells NRA crowd that London hospital is like a "war zone" for stabbing wounds because of guns regulations at National Rifle Association convention. After another difficult week for Donald Trump, another lawyer resigning amid more revelations about Robert Mueller’s Russian probe and his pay off of porn star Stormy Daniels, the President took the opportunity to indulge some of his favourite topics in this rambling speech in front of the supportive audience of...

Mainstream media outlets have today spun a successful election result into one that looks like defeat for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party. Despite Labour winning more seats than all other parties combined the BBC pointed to "mixed results" for Labour, highlighting losses in safe Tory seats such as Wandsworth and Westminster. The local election result was the best in 47 years for Labour with gains made on 2014. The party got a high share of the vote which would...

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"Being a Remainer and voting Labour is like being a vegetarian and ordering steak", was the meme making the rounds on social media before yesterday's local elections. And so it proved to be as the first results trickled in this morning. With UKIP all but obliterated across the country Labour failed to make expected gains in key areas, with Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet going to the Conservatives in London. Although many commentators have pointed to the unrealistic expectations of picking...

It has been a disastrous night for UKIP, which has lurched to the extremes of crude anti-Muslim rhetoric under Gerard Batten, its fourth leader since Nigel Farage. Winning just two seats in the council elections across England yesterday, the party has lost 92 councillors so far. Other far-right parties – such as the British National Party and Anne Marie Waters’ For Britain Movement – have also failed across the board, too. Yet as they are beaten at the ballot box,...

It's polling day for councils around the country and the definite winner for the nation's favourite story on social media is #dogsatpollingstations! These are some of our favourite dogs at polling stations that you have plastered all over Twitter. And don't forget, if you want to to see an actual dog at a polling station, or take your dog to the polling station or indeed exercise your democratic right to vote, they are open until 10pm tonight. You can find...