UK Political Thread, part the second

[Purplecat]

For reference, here’s my post from the last time these particular set of local elections happened in England:

Pro-Brexit parties punished in UK local elections

I was hoping that nobody would post about this, because this means I now have to write a post about how local government works in the UK. So… you may have noticed in the linked article that only some of the UK was voting last week: [Screenshot_2019-05-06%20Election%20results%20in%20maps%20and%20charts] These elections were in Northern Ireland and part of England. The other parts of the UK didn’t have elections last week. Why? Well… Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all have their own sepa…