I think as importantly Labour didn't really win - the Lib Dems and greens did - so these local elections are classic midterm protests rather than a vote for an alternative government. (View Post)

LDs gaining in midterm locals=classic protest vote for pointless party Labour triumphant=alternative government in preparation I remember the locals in 1995 and 2007/8,. This isn't them. (View Post)

Also Starmer drinking in Durham and the fact that Labour have no idea how to address any of the economic problems the country faces - in fact it would probably make them even worse in a number of way… (View Post)

Either that, or it is the home to the 3% or so of LibDem voters who told opinion pollsters consistently that they voted Leave. (View Post)

They might indeed be nightmare numbers for the Tories if the other lot had the slightest idea what to do about them. Instead, they are desperate to talk about anything else, to disguise their total l… (View Post)