WHAT a few days we've had at Worcester City Council - and it's not finished yet.

The city's lone Green Councillor Neil Laurenson is so mired deep in negotiations with Labour and the Tories you'd think he was trying to orchestrate a military coup.

And after studying the voting patterns in detail since last Friday's 3.30am confirmation of another hung council, The Source is now prepared to make a daring prediction: this will happen every year.

The dreaded 'no overall control' scenario, or 'NOC' as the Twittersphere call it, first reared its ugly head in 2012, leading to the Tories swiftly cobbling together an A4 sheet-long deal with the Lib Dems to stay in power.

Two years later and it's happened again, and here we are with a Labour administration engaged in a similar game of horse trading.

Looking at the maths next year, the Tories could well gain the final Lib Dem seat in Claines, that's no secret.

But they could also lose one seat very easily, with Cathedral the likely contender, and then...yes you guessed it, it's the good old NOC yet again.

But The Source has a solution for Cllr Laurenson, who by now is all too used to being traded around as the Kingmaker's king, the big boss.

For his birthday let's put together a knocked-off 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey' game and present it to our Green Lordship.

Then, every May he can put on the blindfold and have one stab at pinning the velvet tail on the donkey's rear end.

If it's right on the spot, he can back the largest party and if not, he can sit on his hands all year and let a minority administration rule the day, with all the chaos, fudging and shenanigans that would ensue.

Just think of the time this would save, the so-called 'donkey's solution'.

You don't need to thank me for this.

* EX-Tory councillor Francis Lankester was enjoying a curry at Altaf's Balti the other week and happened to be sitting right by Mohammed Riaz, his fellow former Cathedral ward politician from the good old days.

Mohammed has long since ditched the Conservatives, and The Source even spotted him helping Labour on their campaign trail only last week.

That shouldn't be a surprise of course as his son Jabba Riaz did the same, and ironically defeated Mr Lankester last week to keep onto his own Cathedral seat for Labour after switching sides back in October.

Staff at the popular curry house, in Tolladine Road, were probably wondering what was going on when the duo got into a verbal disagreement over "disloyalty" from table-to-table towards the end of their meals.

Talk about argy-bhaji!