Local Election Results...

...were a little difficult to get excited about.

Labour took a kicking because most people now realise that they are a bunch of incapable, mendacious shites. The Tories did well because most people now realise that Nu Labour are a bunch of incapable, mendacious shites. The Lib Dems, under the non-leadership of Ming the Merciful Campbell, are stuck in a state of limbo and cannot even offer themselves as a decent protest vote anymore. And the minor parties (UKIP, Greens et al) remain precisely that - minor parties.

In fact, the results of this year's local elections are not unlike the results from last year.

Anyone really interested in UK politics could almost ignore this year's elections are a repetition of last year's elections. British politics hasn't moved on - we are still stuck in a state of nothingness as we trudge through the arse end of the Blair regime.

It is the next few months and years when things will start happening again. Blair will go - probably resigning next week. And Brown will take over, barring some sort of miracle. Then the questions start - can Brown defy expectation and actually reverse the decline of the Labour party? Will Cameron actually add some policies to back up the PR? Will the Lib Dems realise Campbell was a mistake and ditch him? And can any of the minor parties exploit the frustrations with the growing consensus between the major parties and challenge the status quo?

From now on things will get interesting; ignore the Local Elections of 2007 as the anti-climax they most definitely were.