Vote Labour on 5 May
The campaign for the 5 May local elections is lacklustre in many areas. Even lifelong Labour activists are dispirited, with Starmer’s push to the right. Despite “partygate”, the cost of living spike, and their heavy lid on public sector pay, the Tories could even come out of these elections OK. As Luke Akehurst documents on LabourList , the seats contested now were last contested in 2018, when Labour did particularly well. (And as Akehurst does not mention, that was due to Corbynism’s popularity then, before its economic-equalising message got drowned by equivocation on Brexit and antisemitism...