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ukip has a record of losing Councillors at the next election,
presumably because 'Leave the EU' doesn't resonate with Council Officers attempting to maintain local services during funding reductions from Central Government. I also suspect that kippy councillors seldom obtain the Chair of important committees so are unable, should they even have any, to implement any kippy local policies.
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I don't think this is what's going on.
The Tories are being punished by both leavers and remainers because the one thing everyone can agree on is that their handling of Brexit has been shambolic.
Labour are being punished by remainers for being pro-Brexit, while also being punished by Brexit-voting former Labour supporters who don't believe the party will deliver Brexit (this is what Ruth Smeeth has said, so they've said it themselves).
BUT this is much worse for the Tories who've lost 16 councils so far, won two and lost 396 councillors. By comparison Labour have lost three and won one, losing a total of 81 councillors.
UKIP has also lost 54 councillors which is interesting...
This is all so far of course - I don't think even half of the results are in yet.