ELECTIONS are like buses - you wait an age for one to turn up and four arrive at the same time.

Last year it was the referendum, this year the General Election, next year the Scottish Parliament election and in 2017 it will be the turn of our councillors to go to the polls.

But first, the 45 members of the ruling Labour group in the City Chambers will have to get their heads around the SNP landslide across Scotland and their party's collapse in England.

Not only have they lost their national leader with the resignation of Ed Milliband but the city is a Labour free zone in Westminster.

Gordon Matheson and his colleagues have a Conservative Prime Minister in Westminster, an SNP First Minister in Holyrood and seven Nationalist MPs to deal with.

Labour councillors must feel as if they are between a rock and a hard place.

Labour has controlled Glasgow since Methuselah was a boy and for many, it seemed as if the party had taken over permanent control of the City Chambers.

That feeling was reinforced in many quarters at the last council elections when many predicting they would be booted out of control by the SNP.

It didn't happen and Labour returned with an overall, if reduced majority.

However, it is an interesting thought that there are more Labour politicians in the City Chambers than there are representing Scotland at Holyrood.

Scotland has 38 Labour MSPs while Glasgow has 45 Labour councillors - 18 more than the SNP.

It will be interesting to see if that political balance remains after the next election.

However two years is a lifetime in politics and miracles can happen.

It is likely Glasgow's Labour councillors are already hoping for one.