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How did you react to the local council election results last Friday? Here is one earth-shattering tale from PETER FROST
Frosty's good friend and comrade John Andrews

I CAN never resist staying awake on election nights, and so it was last Thursday. I went to bed but left the TV on playing the BBC election results programme.

It didn’t take long to realise that the predictions that Labour would do well and Idiot Johnson and his mates would get a bloody nose were going to come true.

I drifted off, in and out of sleep, but some complicated internal mechanism woke me for actual results.

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