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The Tories are being punished by both leavers and remainers because the one thing everyone can agree on is that their handling of Brexit has been shambolic.
If the Tories were being punished for not having left yet, then the person that would be doing that punishing would be voting instead for a Brexit party. From what I can see, that's not been the case.
Surely (and I admit that better analysis than mine will be coming over the next few days) the only plausible reason for a large swing to a remain party in light of the election being a view on Brexit is that people would prefer to remain...
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I don't think this is what's going on.
The Tories are being punished by both leavers and remainers because the one thing everyone can agree on is that their handling of Brexit has been shambolic.
Labour are being punished by remainers for being pro-Brexit, while also being punished by Brexit-voting former Labour supporters who don't believe the party will deliver Brexit (this is what Ruth Smeeth has said, so they've said it themselves).
BUT this is much worse for the Tories who've lost 16 councils so far, won two and lost 396 councillors. By comparison Labour have lost three and won one, losing a total of 81 councillors.
UKIP has also lost 54 councillors which is interesting...
This is all so far of course - I don't think even half of the results are in yet.