Rory Stewart

Not to be mean, but in my experience, when Tory local councillors lost their seats, they blamed David Cameron or Theresa May or whoever it was.

And just, sorry, just for listeners who aren't completely following the micro details.

One of the big things here is there are just so many more Labour seats up than was true last time.

The narrative a year ago was Chris Mason's The Rise and Rise of Reform.

Last year was the moment where reform really seemed to break through and it took the mayoralty in a couple of places and it took six councils and it was a huge explosion.

But

Labour only lost something like 400 seats last time round because there weren't that many seats up.

This time, Labour almost certainly will lose well over 1,000 seats because there are over 2,000 of these Labour seats up for grabs.

Forget about percentages and absolute numbers.

This is going to feel like an unbelievable hammering for the Labour government.

And then you add to that that we were saying

shortly after Salma was elected, that Labour looked like it was in with a good chance in Scotland.

It's definitely not gonna win in Scotland.

Alassane Was not gonna be the first minister in Scotland.

So put all of that together, people are gonna be thinking,

This is why I said to you a couple of days.

You think he's Joe Biden?

Yeah, he's rapidly becoming Joe Biden because he's basically in a bunker with his wife saying, it's all going to be fine.

You can't do that.

It's just totally unfair.