surely Minns realised that we'd only lent them our Council. Never again will the electorate be fooled into believing that the lib/dems are really conservatives in orange clothing!! ......brilliant results all over the north .......grannyfan Cindy

My local councillor was a lib-dem, he did a fantastic job for us locally, BUT I had to look at the bigger picture. I am a council worker and can't risk losing my job if they stayed in power. Hopefully the Labour Party will stick to their pre-campaign promise of no compulsory redundancies. Will be well p*ssed off if they don't and be joining those made "compulsory redundant" last night.

How anyone can vote labour is beyond me; the mess our country in is because of them, not the Lib Dems/Conservatives. There wouldn't have to be huge cuts if labour didn't spend well beyond their means.

Don't live in Hull anymore but good riddance!

They vote Labour because they know that the economic problems in this country is exactly the same as the trouble thoughout the Western grabalots. These stupid people gambled on the stock markets to try and build their own purses....when stocks dropped to bottom did they pay---oh No, they relieded on the government to bail them out. It happened in the USA with EllieMay and followed on with Northern Rock in the UK. It was even worse for the likes of Ireland, Portugal and Greece. I still think that Spain too will pray that the likes of China will help them as the UK has with our banks. By the way, have you checked lately just what sort of bonus these very same gamblers have been awarded this year, all be in in the form of shares, which they will be able to turn into equity in the future. Do so and then try and blame the Labour Gov for the mess this country is in at the moment.

Labour want to get the deficit down by using true economic ways, ie get the defecit down over a slightly longer period by using a building program to get people back to work (earning money again and therefore paying tax into the country instead of taking more and more in benefit) and other such methods.
........grannyfan Cindy

Well said Cindy I wonder what the new administrations attitude to the Allams pipe dreams and Hull Fair etc will be?

top post ,and remember what mimms did to the boulevard ,broken promises now he will know what its like for all the peaple hes put out of work

I'm sorry but speaking as an economist, labour cannot evade blame for the severity of the UK recession, the spent money to win votes while they should have been servicing the deficit , not increasing it. The over inflation of the public sector for vote winning purposes has led to the huge deficit, not to mention browns insistence at not regulating the financial sector

Does this mean we can have Speedway back ?

I'll hazard a guess that this is the first time you have lived under a Conservative administration. Give it another year to see what the extent of the public spending cuts are, in terms of loss of earnings and the consequent loss of taxation. This administration has already targeted the most vulnerable and will continue to do so, while their backers reap the benefits of lower taxation and a short-cut to dipping their hands in the public purse.

It's been over 30 years since I lived and voted in local elections in Hull and while I am pleased to see Labour doing well locally, I'll sound just one note of caution. Post WW2, Labour enjoyed virtually total control in Hull, this resulted in some of the most useless, self-promoting, so-called socialists ruling the city. I would hope that the brief period of LibDem control will ensure that the good people of the city never allow any party to achieve a similar situation.

After Thatcher had decimated pubic services, they were in dire need of massive investment, just look at improvements to schools and the NHS. There's a danger that all of that will now be undone in the name of shrinking public services and handing them over to the private sector.

Please don't forget that the Conservatives thought the financial sector was over regulated and Boy George considered the Irish Tiger to be a model that the UK should have followed.