As it is near Christmas you will forgive me if I don’t contribute any carefully thought through prose but instead let some numbers do the talking, and let you draw your own conclusions.

A prominent Corbyn supporter challenged me on Twitter last week about why I wasn’t doing the weekly update on council by-election results I used to post on my own blog until the General Election. The simple answer is that the excellent @britainelects Twitter feed now publishes them in real time as the results come out on each Thursday night