Theresa May’s local election victories sign the death warrants of both Labour and Ukip

TWO for the price of one! Theresa May celebrated a Bogof town hall election triumph, signing the death warrants of both the Labour Party and Ukip.

Lifelong voters and Ukip diehards are deserting en masse to the Tories.

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As a bonus, the vaunted revival bit the dust, with Tim Farron’s midget army routed in areas it desperately needs for a General Election comeback.

And the SNP got a taste of things to come as Tory tanks rolled unchecked into territory once deemed unconquerable — with a 20-year-old novice seizing a key seat on Glasgow city council.

But it was Labour, already well on their way along a long march into the political wilderness, who suffered the most spectacular damage.

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Before votes were even counted — and in what would once have been an unforgivable act of treachery — ex-Labour heavyweight Roy Hattersley called for party leader Jeremy Corbyn to be ditched.

He is whistling in the wind.

The party is now occupied by Trots and revolutionaries who support Corbyn and will eventually decide who should take over his place on the Loony Left.

Nobody in Labour’s ranks has the clout and stature to save the party.

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Yvette Cooper? Not a chance. And she’s the best of the bunch on offer.

The pool of talent is now so dry, some optimists are suggesting lightweight Clive Lewis or dull-as- ditchwater “Sir” Keir Starmer might breathe new life into Labour’s corpse.

But after this election meltdown, Theresa May’s Tories are the only show in town — both in Britain and in Europe.

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EU chief    has done the PM a favour by getting personal and leaking distorted versions of a Downing Street dinner summit.

Until he blundered in, the Tories feared worried voters might simply tune out of a boring one-horse election campaign.

Attacks on witless Corbyn were like punching at thin air and, with loopy Diane Abbott making an ass of herself, it seemed like needless cruelty to a dead horse.

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Now Juncker has given the PM a proper punch bag and she is landing devastating blows — to the cheers of voters of all parties.

On yesterday’s showing, we will see Labour breaking ranks on June 8 — and a full-scale switch from Ukip that will hand the PM a remarkable victory in her own right.

Juncker’s threat to punish Britain and demands for an £85billion ransom will rally those who saw the General Election as a foregone conclusion.

There is now a choice. Surrender to the EU we have voted to leave. Or turn out on June 8 and give Theresa May the landslide majority she says she needs to take on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.