So anyway. I’m listening the World At One’s local election coverage on Radio 4. It turns out, according to representatives from all the parties, that everybody had a good night last night. Trebles all round. Politics is now a non-competitive sport, it seems.

Apparently, these days, elections are like the revamped and coddling version of Pass-The-Parcel you have at kids’ birthday parties these days - there’s a prize under every layer of wrapping paper so nobody’s disappointed.

Back in my day the victor got to dance around the room waving his prize while everybody else was in floods of tears. That’s progress I suppose.