UK local elections: Why was Labour slammed? Tories lead by largest ever margin

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According to results, if transferred to a General election The Conservatives would be in Government by a MASSIVE majority. conervatives would have 44% of the vote and Labour 24% in third place behind the Lib dems on 25% . The Conservative have NEVER led Labour by a twenty per cent margin in history. Transferred to House of Commons seats, this would give the Tories 394 seats to Labour's 165. But the question is why? Well yes the economy has had a lot to do with it: high interests rates and falling house pics frighten people, and Gordon Brown is inept economically: he always was: the formerly strong UK economy was the work of the John Major government; and only the media hoodwinked people into thinking Brown was doing a good job when Chanclelor. Now it is clear that was nonsense: let us face it you wouldn't leave him in charge of a corner shop for 5 minutes. But it is more than that. Labour alienated every rural area by banning foxhunting, performing abysmally duing foot and mouth epidemics, and ruining farmers. Now they banned smoking in public, and they are being punished for it in their traditional hartlands. In some Labour areas up to 46% of adults smoke.....ONLY the smoking ban can account for losing areas like Blaina Gwent and Merthyr; coal mining heartland; and the northern towns and cities. In addition, the massive rise in fuel costs (with accompanying huge tax gains for the government), and stealth taxes like paying £400 road tax for an old banger, has made the electorate furious. New Labour are history; and a Libertarian mood is sweeping the nation. We are sick of the nanny state and their fleecing of our pockets through sly taxes, and their inept conomic managemnet. Roll on the next election and a Conservative Government led by David Cameron. At the moment, we will just settle for seeing that beautiful blue map of britain and look forward to stopping Labour's appalling waste of money on local councils.