Briefed on local elections as will be covering one of the BBC slots on results shows for Thursday’s elections. Now there are some folk in each party who can name every constituency in the country and give you the general and local election results there since the dawn of time. However, I’m not one of them! Which means I have to study and retain what any particular result will mean for the prospects up or down for each of the parties.

Being that we (Lib Dems) started with such great results four years ago in the national local elections for England and Wales and it’s more or less the same seats up again – we have a high base to start from. Labour are expecting a mid-term bashing and the Tories have to gain a lot of seats for Dave C to hold his head up high!