99: Graham Stevens- local elections: a Pause for Breath

Uniquely, it was up to the wire in West Hill where, with 10 minutes' notice before coming to the mike in another place, our regular Mal Grimston learned about 0545 today that he has the casting vote in the direction of No Overall Control in Wandsworth, a situation paralelled in at least 6 other local authorities as of this morning.  Lambeth, Lewisham, Croydon, Scotland and Wales won't start declaring till this afternoon through to saturday potentially. Graham and I chew over that, the ripples and augurs for traditional politics , the psychology of polarisation,  and conversely alight at the centenary of the great David Attenborough (I can now reveal that a good friend of the radio show, Mike Kelson,  stood regionally for the Animal Welfare Party) . Stop Press: Reform UK have taken Havering on the Essex border.