For Reform, people - even supposedly experienced analysts - overlooked the difficulty of converting protest votes into seats where those votes are relatively evenly spread - Bexley being the textbook… (View Post)

You couldn’t understand why people would vote Green, yet there are hundreds of them right where you live; indeed you just came within 37 votes of having a Green councillor ! (View Post)

Which is sensible, keeping the hope alive, while maximising the time Starmer has to soak up all the bad news that is incoming (View Post)

Remarkably, that was how Streeting got his first break in politics; having been beaten by yours truly in my own ward, it transpired that a newly elected Labour councillor in another ward was a teache… (View Post)

Yep. On the island, last time, the LDs got one seat, but won three more in subsequent by-elections, making four. One of those stood down and her seat wasn’t held, the other three got re-elected, and … (View Post)