Kind of exasperating how the pundits spend hours analysing Sunderland simply because there’s nothing else to talk about, whereas more interesting councils that report at (say) 2am get skipped over. (View Post)

Of course, the big loser of the night is Electoral Calculus. (View Post)

Why? I’m a LibDem member. My views are much, much closer to Labour or the Greens than they are to the Conservatives. An electoral pact means that a council close to my views is much more likely to be… (View Post)

You only had a choice of three parties because of First Past The Post. As long as that continues, parties are inevitably going to make (often informal) pacts to maximise their seat tallies. (View Post)

Objectionable local Tory here in West Oxfordshire bleating about “the deals that have been done amongst parties in some seats”. Newsflash: if you back First Past The Post then these things will happe… (View Post)