Somebody needs to tell the Conservatives that there are local elections happening in May

Last week saw the start of political campaigning for the local elections.

There was the obligatory Liberal Democrats not-at-all-serious, so-bad-it’s-good contribution to modern politics featuring a tractor driven by Ed Davey smashing through blue hay bales to signify a Lib Dem siege on the so-called rural ‘Blue Wall’. Labour, meanwhile, launched theirs in Swindon - the ‘least happiest place to live’ in the South West according to Rightmove's 2022 Happy at Home study - on Thursday.

Strangely, the Conservatives didn’t appear to have a launch at all. 

Was it as a result of complacency? Do the Conservatives feel as though - because they are so confident of success, and the polls are in their favour - that any launch of a major electoral campaign is superfluous and unneeded? 

No - it’s just that when they did launch their local election campaign, nobody noticed, which says much.