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It must be worrying for the Royals and their sycophants that only a quarter of Brits were most looking forward to the coronation, more Brits were looking forward to the bank holiday. The first coronation is seventy years really didn’t appeal to Brits, the viewing figures for the coronation were substantially lower than when England ‘s men’s soccer team play in international tournaments or make the final. With the police arresting people for exercising free speech against the monarchy, that…

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There’s some interesting analysis in The Observer Labour is making dramatic progress in winning back pro-Brexit voters across the country as the coalition of support for the Tories built by Boris Johnson collapses, according to detailed analysis of Thursday’s local election results. Figures from the BBC’s “key wards” data, obtained by the Observer, show support for Keir Starmer’s party was up by seven points compared with 2021 in the most heavily pro-leave wards. The data also shows that while the Tories…

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Last year a woman in a castle died. Rumors and notes moved to black cloth and whispers and then the word: she had died and was succeeded by her son. She had been appointed when young by God to be Queen and she had been diligent, as the girl became a woman became frail and she and the years wore away. She had died and the duty passed to the man, and a strange period began. Life is a succession…

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Perhaps that was the whole point of having the wedding today

The figures are: Labour: 35% Conservatives: 26% Lib Dems: 20% Others: 19% This is slightly lower than the national Westminster polls but still a good indicator of the challenge facing Sunak. Prof Michael Thrasher has said that his analysis suggests that these results show Labour is on course to be the largest party in parliament after the general election, but without an overall majority. Mike Smithson

It is important to note that we have only had a small number of results so far with the vast bulk of councils doing their counts during the day. I have little doubt that things will change in the next few hours. A big figure to look out for will be the scale of Tory losses. One projection overnight has the party losing over 1,100 seats. No doubt there will be speculation over Sunak’s position given that this is his…

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The Scots Tories and Greens are on the decline At the 2010 General Election when the Tories returned to power there was no change in the seats in Scotland. Labour had 41 of the 69 seats and ended up with 41 of the 69 seats Everything changed north of the border following the IndyRef in 2014 when there was a huge move to the SNP in the polls although the referendum itself went with the status quo Since then Scottish…

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