Never mind Labour, it’s a bad night for Nick

It’s being a terrible night for Nick Robinson on the BBC1 European elections programme.

The panel of talking heads started on Wales, before the results came in, and David Dimbleby said there was a rumour that the Conservatives had topped the poll in Wales.   Mark Francois agreed.  Quick as a flash Nick was in there, “We have no evidence that the Conservatives have topped the poll”.       A few minutes later, er, we did top the poll in Wales.

Then Mark Francois started talking about what these figures would mean if transferred across to a general election.   It’s all just too much for poor old Nick  -  with a ghastly grin he rushed in again, “but of course they won’t be.   These are European elections with a very low poll.”

The way things are going, if we’ve got another year of this, I’m really worried about the effects on Nick’s health!