Gers wrote:
As of this morning, Saturday May 4th at 6:20am, The Conservatives are down by 371 seats. Labour up by 204. Lib Dems up 92. Greens up 58. And other parties combined down by 5.
So yep'. If I were Kier, as I'm going to call him from now on, I'd be a bit pissed off as well.
To play devil's advocate council elections are very different to Parliamentary ones for example there will likely be under 5 possible none of the 650 seats that go to independents, the Green Party are targeting 4 seats they think they can win and most predictions fail to give Reform a good chance in any individual seats.
Add to that Scotland looks likely to see Labour pick up a large swathe of SNP seats which will bolster Labour considerably and the Lib Dems peak performance is in the 50-70 range of which a lot are taken from Conservatives, I think the picture for Labour is quite healthy.
In an ideal world I would like to see Labour with a 75ish seat majority which will allow them to govern effectively and hopefully bring some optimism back to the country.