

Chair Mansfield Labour Party and Chair UNITE East Mids Regional Political Committee. All tweets in a personal capacity. RT does not mean I agree.
A final thing to watch will be turnout. One viewpoint held by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn is that he will expand the electorate by appealing to millions of non-voters. Turnout was 31% in 2012, and 35.7% in 2014. If Jeremy Corbyn really is energising non-voters, we should expect a turnout above 40%.
In every single instance, opposition leaders gained councillors. The last time this didn’t happen, in 1987, Margaret Thatcher called a snap general election, and crushed Labour weeks later. Losing seats is not generally an indicator that things are going well.