Local Election Madness

I can see that it's going to be one of 'those' weeks.  Much as I enjoy bank holidays. (although, as noted elsewhere, they are technically meaningless to me, as I'm no longer part of the regular workforce, so can take off any day I damn well please), they are disruptive to my normal schedules.  As, per most bank holidays, I spent Monday mainly on the sofa watching old films and eating peanuts, my normal Monday activities had to be deferred until today, making today feel like a Monday.  It won't get any better as the week goes on - with local elections on Thursday, my routines will be disrupted again, as I'll have to find time to vote.  But the elections will cause wider disruption - the BBC, along with most of the rest of the media, have decided that, this year, the local elections will be VERY IMPORTANT.  Which means that on Friday, most of BBC1's viewing time is to be given over to various so called 'experts' poring over the results as they trickle in and telling us how, if these voting patterns were repeated in a general election, would lead to Nigel Farage being PM.  The problem with all such analyses being that voting patterns at local level aren't necessarily indicative of voting intentions nationally.  Particularly when it is highly unlikely that there will be a general election before 2028/29.  Moreover, turnout at local elections is, traditionally, far lower than at general elections.  Not to forget, also, that not the entire country votes in local elections, meaning that results can't be perfectly be mapped to possible national trends.  

Of course, having said all that, we might actually have a high turnout this year, just to prove me (partially) wrong.  While, obviously, I hope that the expectations for these elections of the media are frustrated, not just because I'd like to see their attempts to propel Farage into Number Ten suffer a setback, but also because I'd like to see their overblown coverage fall flat on its face.  But even if this doesn't happen, I still expect the reaction of the viewing public to be 'where the fuck is today's edition of 'Bridge of Lies'?', or 'why the fuck was 'Pointless' on BBC2?  I bloody missed it because its BBC1 slot was full of boring bastards talking shit about politics!'.  The BBC even seem deluded enough to believe that primetime audiences will share their local election obsession, scheduling an edition of 'Question Time' - ignorant berks asking ignorant questions of a bunch of third string politicians - in the evening.  Even 'Have I got News For You' gets shunted to BBC2 - although not because of the local elections, but instead because the Beeb think that a Friday evening, after hour upon hour of local election bollocks which will have driven off most of the audience - is the right time to schedule a celebration of David Attenborough's hundredth birthday.  Madness, sheer madness!  Not to mention a severe disruption to my regular routines, (although, to be honest, I don't actually watch much of BBC1's Friday evening schedule on a regular Friday - but it's the principle that counts).