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I cannot remember a local election results to take this long to get the results all finalised.
Am I the only one too who is likely fed up of hearing of this great success of UKIP in these elections.
Yes,they have won over 150 councillors but they have not a single council and are not even in 2nd place in any except for a small few.

They have done well in getting their vote up to 17% nationally but that is not going to win them seats in general elections either.
Yet it is UKIP all over the news.

For me some of the main points were Labour failing to take Tamworth, there is a result that they should have worked harder to achieve,Tamworth being an inportant target seat for the 2015 election.
Other major news for me would be.Labour's rather incredible success across London councils, the Conservatives taking Kinston from the Lib Dems, Labour wiping the Lib Dems out in Manchester,where Labour now have 95 seats along with one Independent on the council.

The Conservatives against the odds holding on to Swindon and then for Labour too also in Birmingham,despite some switching of seats, Labour strenghteneing their grip on that council after years of it being a Con/Lib run council.

There are loads more too but all we are getting is UKIP.
For crying out loud, had they won about 4 or 5 councils fair enough, to have not won any or come close to while doing pretty well, that is hardly the success of these elections.

Sunday and the European results may well be the major success for UKIP and then it will be justified all this attention and lauding over them but 'not' for what they have managed to do in these Local elections.
The media really do make you despair at times.