Saba Salman

However, he didn't say anything about the Labour stance on Gaza before he defected and in fact was deselected.

So he's up there campaigning.

This is the character who was done for housing fraud.

No, exactly.

But I mean, going back to the vetting thing, it's that thing of him standing there with Zach Polanski brandishing a bright green vote green.

They do.

And they like to photograph it and they like to put it on social media.

And then it's spotted.

Absolutely.

There's some backhanders and that's the stuff of rotten boroughs, really.

But yes, many examples where people have, you know, been very kind to their chums and helped them with, you know, planning or housing.

Not at all.

The bins, the bankruptcy.

That's right.

Something else beginning with B. Yeah, one of Britain's most bankrupt councils.

It's the largest in Europe and all the 101 seats are up for election.

This is another one that's likely to go into no overall control, which, you know, we are seeing increasing numbers of this.

You would think it would be a positive thing because you then have more local debate.

You don't have a party political stance.

But certainly in all the years I've been covering local government, I've noticed that the no overall control thing used to be far more rare because we just had the two, three main parties involved.