What "Southern Discomfort" on Labour's part? Failure to
win a seat that Labour has never won? The Conservatives have never won an overall
majority without that seat, and they also failed to win it.
Based on last year's 60 per cent showings in
Southern villages that Labour had not contested since the 1970s, if ever, that
party has nothing to worry about.
And remember that Derby, Leicester, Nottingham
and Southampton are no longer administratively in the counties that bear their
names. Nor is Portsmouth in Hampshire in that sense. Nor is Stoke in
Staffordshire. Nor is either Blackburn or Blackpool in Lancashire. There are
other examples besides.
Therefore, the Conservative Party ought to walk
these county council elections. But it is not going to. Not at all.
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