{"id":949501,"date":"2026-05-10T01:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949501\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:58:59","slug":"south-yorkshire-local-election-results-and-updates-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949501\/","title":{"rendered":"South Yorkshire local election results and updates 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the word on the street in Barnsley?published at 17:27 BST 8 May<\/p>\n<p>17:27 BST 8 May<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Rebecca Wearn<\/strong><br \/>in Barnsley<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnsley has had a Labour council for fifty years. But all that looks set to change.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man in a light blue t-shirt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/99948a59-5fdf-476d-8054-a4c14907e92d.jpg.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee is installing a door in a terraced home. He\u2019s voted Labour for most of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cBut for the last ten years they\u2019ve made no difference my every day life, I\u2019ve seen no benefits,&#8221; he says<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> \u201cAs a taxpayer we are paying too much out for illegal immigrants; for housing, for benefits. That\u2019s my number one, followed by all the unemployed but who can work.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee has held down a job since he was 16. His wife worked as a carer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cEverything is just tax, tax, tax and tax again,\u201d he says. \u201cI just want the country to be run fairly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe can but vote and hope for the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman in a cream top looks at the camera\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8e40404b-c0ed-45fe-a340-c4b8a2d61027.jpg.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over at the market, Jackie is doing her weekly shopping and told me she is worried. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been Labour all my life. I\u2019m sad,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI don\u2019t think they will know how to run [the] council, Reform.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Paul, from Keith\u2019s Quality Meats butchers, thinks people have not voted on local issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt seems to me that national issues are in play. In my opinion people have voted against Keir Starmer.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the word on the street in Barnsley?published at 17:27 BST 8 May 17:27 BST 8 May Rebecca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-949501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116547812267959367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}