Hi folks, welcome to another one of our political chats. It is the morning after the day before,

the comet has hit the Labour Party and I mean, I'm going to try not to look so happy about it

throughout this whole thing, but it's been great. Well, not only do the comet hit, it then

reversed up and then just ran over Labor again and then just did that a few more

times. Yeah, yeah, and not just Labor. So it's been quite bad so far. However, most of the

results actually still aren't in. With local council elections and the devolved councils,

they actually don't count them through the night, even though the votes are counted in the thousands rather than the tens or hundreds of thousands.

Yes.

So they could have done, but they don't for whatever reason.

And there is a little bit of a bias here in that the in-city places are more likely to count

through the night because they've got the infrastructure to do it and they got less

travelling to get them there. So it's the leafier places but nevertheless that's well

understood in British politics and therefore even though the first results are extra, you know,

skewed towards urban centres, we can take that into account.

Yeah and so there are lots of results that aren't out yet but we're going to go through

the ones that are out.

We're recording this at about 11 o'clock on Friday morning, so we have a fair amount in, actually,

which is enough to draw some conclusions, and the conclusions aren't great.

So we're going to go through what the predictions were, and then see how they're beginning to stack up with the results.

So, I mean, this is just an article from, what was it, The Telegraph or someone like that,

news statements, sorry, where the, and I've just picked this as just a common barometer of the expectations of these results.

It's just, this is going to be a wipeout in England.

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