Even more Tory troubles

9.33.03am GMT Mon 11th Dec 2006

I wrote yesterday about the troubles the Tories are having problems with their Parliamentary candidates. News now reaches me that they have lost control of four councils - how very careless!

They have lost Gosport, in Crawley, Dover and Vale and Glamorgan. One wonders where is next?

In Gosport the Conservative leader and his minority administration walked out after losing a vote. In Crawley a Conservative has defected the Liberal Democrats. In Dover the same story a Conservative defected to the Liberal Democrats. In the Vale and Glamorgan the Conservatives lost a vote of no-confidence and Labour are back in control.