{"id":75362,"date":"2024-05-07T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75362"},"modified":"2024-05-07T06:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:25:13","slug":"the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/07\/the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greens were the biggest winners in the local elections, so why aren&#8217;t they getting fair air time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am annoyed that no one seems to be stating who the real winner of the local elections was. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/ng-interactive\/2024\/may\/02\/local-elections-2024-full-council-results-for-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is the data<\/a>, from the Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-75363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.18.09-550x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.18.09-550x232.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.18.09-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.18.09-1536x648.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.18.09-2048x864.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.18.09-600x253.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Expressed as percentage gains and losses that looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-75364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.38.29-550x460.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.38.29-550x460.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.38.29-359x300.png 359w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.38.29-768x642.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.38.29-479x400.png 479w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-17.38.29.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Greens were easily the biggest winners.<\/p>\n<p>So why aren't they getting fair air time?<\/p>\n<p>And why do we keep getting Reform instead, especially on the BBC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am annoyed that no one seems to be stating who the real winner of the local elections was. This is the data, from the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/07\/the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75374,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75362\/revisions\/75374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}