The Guardian view on the 2017 local elections: a clear and present warning | Editorial

The council elections show Theresa May on course for general election triumph. Opponents of her hard Brexit plans must respond or face an even worse defeatDemocracy is among the proudest of human achievements. But politics and journalism are unsentimental. It is the fate of the 2017 UK council elections to be largely ignored as the local democratic events they actually are. Instead they are already being viewed largely through the prism of the general election that is due a month from now. That&