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pclmulqdqyesterday at 4:06 PM1 replyview on HN

So per your source, he did cancel local elections at a time where it is politically favorable for him to do so?


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ben_wyesterday at 7:02 PM

No.

1. "Postponed" is not "cancelled"

2. "Postponed" is entirely normal within British politics. For most of my life, even the timing of general elections were at the whim of the government.

3. Given how Starmer polls, the delay is almost certainly going to make things un-favourable for him. Also unfavourable for Labour, unless they kick him out first.

Not that it would matter much if your conspiracy theory held water, given that one of the many constitutional problems the UK has is that local councils have negligible power (options are tied all over the place) and therefore local elections are functionally little more than opinion polls done in a voting booth.

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