Local elections 2023: Leader ousted by 22-year-old as Tories lose council

[johnofgwent]

Local elections 2023: Leader ousted by 22-year-old as Tories lose council

George Blundell helps the Lib Dems take control from the Tories in Windsor and Maidenhead.

Source: Local elections 2023: Leader ousted by 22-year-old as Tories lose council

Hardly surprising.

Political parties have a standard approach across the spectrum of using enthusiastic activists at the start of what they hope to be a political career as cannon fodder in seats they have no realistic hope of winning.

Mike German in Cardiff in the 1970's
Mhairi Black in Ed Balls's seat a few years back


Party arrogance reaches a point where the people decide they need to send s message, and the useful idiot gets propelled to power.

[BBC News]

Local elections 2023: Leader ousted by 22-year-old as Tories lose council

George Blundell helps the Lib Dems take control from the Tories in Windsor and Maidenhead.

Source: Local elections 2023: Leader ousted by 22-year-old as Tories lose council