It's when Conservative voters begin to distance themselves from the party that the real problems begin

One of the things I discussed in my pre-Easter article was that the Conservatives have more or less abandoned hope when it comes to the local elections. 

In recent weeks Labour have been stepping up their more personalised attacks on Rishi Sunak; whether it’s good or bad politics, supported or condemned, productive or counterproductive, is beyond the point when the truth is, they’re mostly superfluous and unnecessary. 

The Conservatives are set to lose potentially thousands of seats in the local elections, and though polls have shown some ‘a narrowing’ there is no clear indication that whatever the Conservatives put forth - as per ‘Red Meat’ policies - that anything is even remotely working on deeper and more intrinsic political level.

Attack ads or not, the fundamentals don't augur well for the Conservatives.