One person close to Birmingham Labour said the party’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) had blocked the possibility of a coalition or power-sharing agreement. In a statement, the local group said the election results showed it was “time for us to reflect carefully on the result, listen to residents, and rebuild trust and support with our communities”.
That sounds very dumb. If a coalition is what it takes to run the council then they should step up and do it. They could join up with everyone except for Reform and the Tories.
The article text says that this pro-Gaza group have also refused to form a coalition with anyone — that is, unlike the title text, it’s not others refusing to enter coalition with them, but them refusing to enter coalition with anyone else — so I suppose that they’re out too.
And based on the infographic, a coalition needs 51 seats, and Labour+Green+Liberal Democrats only can scrape together 48 on their own. Assuming that all the other parties stick to their stated red lines, I don’t think that Labour can enter a coalition with 51 or more seats.
Reform+Conservative+Lib Dem would be 51. Reform+Green+Lib Dem would be 54. Neither violates the stated red lines, though I suppose that it’d be some odd bedfellows.
Why do they need at least 51 seats? All they need to do is be the largest coalition of the group, which they will be since none of the others would work together.
Then all they need to do is announce policies, watch the other groups torpedo those policies, and now they can lampoon Reform (under the others but no one cares about them outside of Birmingham) on the public stage and demonstrate their deceitfulness. This would be a win for labour if only they were smart enough to be able to see it.
That sounds very dumb. If a coalition is what it takes to run the council then they should step up and do it. They could join up with everyone except for Reform and the Tories.
The article text says that this pro-Gaza group have also refused to form a coalition with anyone — that is, unlike the title text, it’s not others refusing to enter coalition with them, but them refusing to enter coalition with anyone else — so I suppose that they’re out too.
And based on the infographic, a coalition needs 51 seats, and Labour+Green+Liberal Democrats only can scrape together 48 on their own. Assuming that all the other parties stick to their stated red lines, I don’t think that Labour can enter a coalition with 51 or more seats.
Reform+Conservative+Lib Dem would be 51. Reform+Green+Lib Dem would be 54. Neither violates the stated red lines, though I suppose that it’d be some odd bedfellows.
Why do they need at least 51 seats? All they need to do is be the largest coalition of the group, which they will be since none of the others would work together.
Then all they need to do is announce policies, watch the other groups torpedo those policies, and now they can lampoon Reform (under the others but no one cares about them outside of Birmingham) on the public stage and demonstrate their deceitfulness. This would be a win for labour if only they were smart enough to be able to see it.
Ah, you’re right, sorry, just said for a majority.
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