There are still plenty of results to come in, but the majority have been counted.
Positives:
UKIP gained two councillors
There were some close results elsewhere
Negatives:
Everyone other than the Labour party and the Liberals also gained councillors.
The BNP far outstripped UKIP's gains (8 gains)
There appear to be three tiers of parties judging by the
number of overall councillors -
Tier 1: (quadruple figures)
Con
Lab
Lib Dem
Tier 2: (double figures)
Plaid Cymru
Green
Liberal
British National Party
Tier 3: (single digits)
UKIP
Respect
Socialist Alternative
That doesn't create a great impression of the party, when it lingers at the bottom of the table with the Socialists.
I am going to vote 'indifferent'. While gaining two councillors is obviously better than last year (-1), it is far from a break through into local politics. The BNP stole the night in terms of up and coming parties.
Not a peep about the results on the UKIP website and no congratulations for those four elected councillors. It is almost like the election never happened...