Despite the best efforts of the Tory and Labour Parties to try and deflect attention away from Brexit for the local elections, I would hope they both get a hammering tomorrow.
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Some people will think it unfair that hard working local councillors should be on the receiving end of an electoral bashing for their parties' failure at a national level to deal properly with Brexit.
It's not about Brexit or national policies, those councillors and their supporters will say, it's about things like potholes, schools and hospitals.
And, if your area is anything like mine, you get leaflets from the main party candidates saying that they will fix all these things, blithely forgetting that they are the ones who've been in charge for years and not delivering those things in the first place.
Up and down the country we have local councils that have been dominated by the same political party for years, if not decades.
And when the local elections come round the same party gets in. More often than not, based much more on the colour of the rosette they are wearing than the calibre or performance of the candidate.
But these candidates recognise the power of the party colours and also the power of the party machine that they have at their disposal for campaigning, leafletting and fund raising.
Without that apparatus behind them they would find it much harder as independent candidates to operate and get elected.
And the fact that they continue to stand under the party banner for that election is a sh..