The Green Party is hoping council gains will pave the way for a second MP at Westminster.
Unlike some other parties, the Greens have never gone in much for expectation management, and they are bullish about their prospects now.
They have run councils before but have never won outright control of a major local authority at the ballot box.Greens says other parties like to talk about climate change but "often don't follow that through" with their policies. "I think we're doing that at local level and our job now is to translate that into trust at a general election so that we get more MPs in Parliament."
The Greens are polling at around 5% nationally, which would not deliver any MPs at all if it was repeated evenly across the country.
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