What to do on the day after elections.

So Labour seem to have been truly trounced in a whole lot of local elections, not to mention the Hartlepool by-election. A friend of mine sent me some figures regarding Labour votes in Hartlepool:-

Total Labour votes

2005           18,251               Blair

2010            16,267              Brown

2015            14,076              Miliband

2017             21,969             Corbyn

2019             15,464             Corbyn

2021              8589               Starmer

She’s trying to work out how they can blame it on Jeremy Corbyn and has decided that a new political phenomenon is about to be discovered: “Long Corbyn”. 

I guess he will serve as the blame-hound for a while yet!

We still don’t know the results of the Greater Manchester mayoral elections. All the sources on the internet tell us that the results will be available on the 8th of May. Tomorrow! Can they invent a name for that day as well? Solemn Saturday?

I’ve been avoiding media analysis of the elections. It’s enough that I have a friend who has become obsessed with the whole proceedings and sends me regular updates. It all gets rather wearing and so I have pushed it all to the back of my mind for the time being. So I don’t know what has been going on in Scotland and Wales.,

Instead we have been out on a family adventure, yet another Diggle Chippy Hike. Some of the family chickened out’ Phil with a cold and the eldest granddaughter because she was digging - or helping to dig - or supervising someone else digging - a pond for frogs in her garden. She really needed to do this as she rescued some frogspawn from a rapidly drying puddle weeks ago and has been fretting over it ever since. The frogspawn has gone though basic tadpoles , to tadpoles with legs,  to tadpoles with legs and without tails - in other words, tiny frogs. They need to be in a pond before they start climbing out of their indoor container and exploring her living room.

The rest of us had a mix of sunshine and a few showers - notably as we finished off our fish and chips at the duckpond. But on the whole a good time was had by all and the views were still fine. 

Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!