Agree Richard. But just to illustrate the point I made earlier, Labour was defending 16 seats on Halton council in Cheshire. Reform won 15 of them but Labour retain overall control of the council because it holds most of the uncontested seats.
I expect a lot of councils will go to No Overall Control but I doubt Reform will have majority control of many.
Some sections of the media do seem to have lost sight of the fact that plenty of places did not vote yesterday. There were no elections in my neck of the woods, for example.