Thanks for providing Alt Text..in my haste to report the good news for the Greens, I forgot I posted a picture rather than a link (the BBC East election live thread was too long!)

Alex Dunlop
BBC Look East
SHAUN WHITMORE/BBC
The Greens celebrate their success in the Norwich area of the Norfolk County Council election, where they have won 10 of the 13 counts at the UEA Sportspark
It has been a Labour wipeout in the Norwich area, with all 13 county council divisions now declared at the count at the UEA Sportspark.
Before this round of elections, Labour held seven of those 13 seats, ahead of three for the Greens, two Independents and one Lib Dem (the party's Norfolk leader Brian Watkins).
That has now flipped to 10 for the Greens, two for Reform UK and Watkins holding the one Lib Dem seat.

But Rupert Lowe’s ultra far right outpost of Great Yarmouth, returned entirely councillors for his Great Yarmouth First Party, so in practice what was a #Tory council is now incredibly rightwing. Both the old parties collapsed.

While I’m encouraged by the #Green wins in #Norwich, Blofield, Brundall, Diss and Roydon, I am ashamed of Norfolk.

This is huge for #Norwich !

This is what the area of the city has recently experienced:

Cost of policing protests outside Norwich hotel is revealed

Norfolk Police has regularly cancelled staff rest days at short notice for asylum seeker protests.

BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

Proud of how my city has responded to Zia Yusuf’s vile asylum concentration camp plan. Honestly think his hideous policy backfired just as I predicted it would in divided areas with a strong Green presence.

For some reason they’ve still not announced that the #Greens have taken control of #Norwich City Council…this is huge, but they assume their readership don’t care!

Exactly!

Denise Carlo - Green - 3138
Richard Edmunds - Reform - 343
Michael Howard - Labour - 901
Marlowe North - Lib Dem - 189
James Nutman - Communist party of GB - 45
John Ward - Tories - 159

The rightwing local rag, the EDP reported it like this:

‘Professional triathlete Joe Skipper, Reform UK's candidate, lost out by 86 votes to Green Amber Smith, taking a seat which used to be Labour's.

Neil Hardman - Lib Dem’s - 134
Rebeka Jones - Conservative - 195
Mike Sands - Labour - 711
Joe Skipper - Reform 1003
Amber Smith - Green - 1089’

I’ve been saying that for a long time…but when I saw him speaking at a recent event I really did not get the impression he would. He’s been trying to offer up his seat to Andy Burnham…but it’s too late, it’s no longer a safe Labour seat.

Clive Lewis needs to cross the floor.

Sad but not surprised to see Reform gain 2 seats here as well. They took them from Labour. There hasn’t been a Tory presence in the city for some time.