You really ought to leave the swivel-eyed paranoia to the mouth-breathers, j.
maybe they are fed up of being shafted by the same parties and fancy being shafted by a new party?
In case you hadn't noticed, j, no-one in this country gives a flying one about local politics.
As long as the bins get collected and the councillors aren't too corrupt, we don't care.
People just use local elections to express grievance about national politics.