English local elections, May 2014

[Serenity Now]

Rallings and Thrasher PNS out. Labour 1 point ahead of the Tories which is not bad a year out.

Not bad for who and why?

I'd say he certainly meant not bad for the conservatives - in the last decade or so the opposition have won every set of local elections before the general, and by much larger margins, only for the government to be re-elected at the general.  The Conservatives won the 2000 and 2004 locals, for example.