Labour's election beating by the Green's on Starmer’s own doorstep!

The scale of the win by the Green Party on Camden Council, in Keir Starmer's constituency should cause Labour worry!
Right, so Starmer’s had his backside handed to him in his own back yard by the Green Party has he? This should serve as a warning, but I doubt he’ll take heed. Politics at local council level has been dominated by stories of Labour resignations, defections and by-election losses, in no small part due to the position of Kier Starmer with respect to the situation in Gaza right now and the atrocities being committed by Israel following a Hamas attack, which to all except the most hardened Zionists is seen as disproportionate to the point of being a genocide and an example of ethnic cleansing, any attempt to impose sanctions upon which has seen the UN Security Council get vetoed time after time by the US. But for all the claims I and others have made that things may not be looking as rosy electorally for Starmer and Co as national polling might suggest, these matters are dismissed as being irrelevant because local election results are not a good analogy for national results and although true, some of the scale of the losses and where they are happening, in staunch Labour strongholds makes me think they’re foolish to dismiss such things out of hand. But now we’ve had a result in Starmer’s own constituency, a by-election on Camden Borough Council the result of which should worry him significantly, if this is how his own constituents feel about the party he leads and of course the power they have directly over him, come the General Election.
Right, so it’s local council by-election time again, though this one was a little bit different, this one was a Green Party defence, triggered as it has been by the departure of Sian Berry, the former Green Party leader, as she is now running to replace the retiring Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavilion. Therefore her Highgate seat was being vacated and having been lost to the Greens by Labour previously, very narrowly, this was expected to be a tough defence, Labour really wanted this seat back, so that Highgate Ward would once again be 100% Labour, the Ward also having two Labour Councillors currently, but things did not go that way.
What you have to realise first here, is how tight the race was previously when this seat was last contested, Camden Borough Council had it’s last set of local elections only last year, so we’re only 18 months in and Sian Berry topped the vote for Highgate Ward with 1,967 votes on a 49% turnout, local elections always low. The Labour candidate, also elected to the Ward, was just 69 votes behind her, the Labour candidate who didn’t quite make the cut coming fourth, was still only 440 votes behind Berry, so you can see how narrowly she got elected to the Council.
So the Greens expected a fight here, they expected this to be tight and Deputy Green Party Leader and London Assembly member Zack Polanski made this clear in a tweet he put out a few days before polls opened saying:

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