Possibly an apt time to announce that for the General Election, I'm to resurrect Beestonia, the blog where I first started covering elections in 2010.
I'll be working with students, volunteers and party moles to deliver the facts, the gossip, the crap electoral leaflet critiques.

Reform UK have gone from 0 councillors to 0 so far, a change of 0. So why are they being talked about frequently on the BBC live updates but hardly anything about The Green Party who have so far gained 13?

But nobody believes you
And with good reason!

Your party tried to gerrymander. You did this.

And there it is!

We're often overlooked here in the East Midlands but this is a significant event as we head to a GE

Another interesting result: Lee Anderson's area not seeing a Reform breakthrough, but instead dividing the Tory vote to the benefit of Labour. Going to be a tough argument to keep, as Anderson was doing today, to suggest 'Vote Reform, Get Deform'

Given the large number of previous and current Post Office Senior staff, who appear to have been unable to do their jobs properly or even remember anything, I would query the PO recruitment procedures.
Makes even Reform's candidate recruit look competent

So looking like he will still be Ben 'two-jobs' Bradley, or at least until the General Election.

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute
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East Midlands Mayor election updates as Labour claims victory nottinghampost.com/news/nottingha…

Said earlier I think this is the best race to give a read across to the General Election: lots of marginal parliamentary seats of different types and no incumbents. Early call suggests it’s not close.

Broxtowe just behind Rushcliffe for best turn out. Bad news for both Caroline and Darren Henry.

So Sunak is doing the rounds, saying that Labour didn't deliver in everywhere they expected to,is rather like the Captain of the Titanic saying that the iceberg took a bit of damage too.

Laura election summary latest:

“Fantastic night for our glorious leader as enemy of the people Starmer suffers catastrophic series of victories”