Ferrets in a Sack

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Factionalism without clear factional lines is a very strange thing.

Wait.

*sniffs*

Something's... wrong...

Aha!

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Not true. While this years local elections can't be directly compared to previous rounds of local elections held during previous periods of Labour rule at Westminster, they were certainly better (a relative term of course) for the government than most rounds of local elections during the late 1960's were. Generally speaking they seem to be roughly comparable to local elections during the late 1970's (adjusted for demographic and political change... and of course to the huge piecemeal changes to the local government system and local elections since then). Not that that's much of a comfort for the government as Labour did worse by any measure in 1979 than 1970.

Of course they were also "better" than most rounds of local elections for Labour before the War, but making anything of that is, frankly, taking the piss a little...

Not that any of that really matters... but I think it's important to at least try to kill myths before they get firmly established. Probably too late on that. Damn you 24 hour news!