My second-hand experience of council politics is that a lot of elected councillors prove to be pretty unbiddable, and that's with members of established parties, with local party apparatuses, and a d… (View Post)
Rural Northumberland likely to be fairly resilient though I note Tories actually held on in the towns - Ponteland, Cramlington, Morpeth. Reform seem to have done for Labour in the more industrial par… (View Post)
Nearly all LibDem seats are blue-facing. If they end up in coalition with Labour, say sfter a close election next time, their support will tank. That's their problem - surviving electorally if in gov… (View Post)