800! Sorry, I misremembered. You really did put that figure out of sight of anything remotely plausible! That's nearly half of all seats contested. (View Post)

I think the difference is that the boring decent people stuck around when the entry-ists came and tried to purge them from the Labour Party. The Tories seem to have driven everyone decent out. And wh… (View Post)

As another former Tory (council candidate & voter) I can't imagine what they can do to demonstrate that they can be trusted. They have a decade or so of just being "wrong" (IMHO) e… (View Post)

The Conservatives are now down 336 councillors across England/Scotland/Wales. That's now closer to the 500 "utterly preposterous" number floated by CCHQ than the 150 estimated by the p… (View Post)

Labour crap Tories crapper Lib Dems even crapper still, but, by crikey, they used to be so much worse. Greens now capable of booking out a whole mid-sized local restaurant for their councillors'… (View Post)