Labour has been humiliated in a shock by-election win in a council – just weeks ahead of the local government elections in May.

Ilford Independents beat the current party of government out Mayfield ward, of one of its safest seats, in a huge swing that saw its vote share plummet.

The comment on Labour Hub by Rita Mahli, of Chingford & Woodford Green Community Independents, should be particularly chilling for Keir Starmer and his right-wing cronies:

Locally and nationally [Labour] seems to be haemorrhaging support with a raft of ill-judged and unpopular policies, with voters demonstrating in local by-elections and national opinion polls that they will no longer support a Party who, it is sometimes hard to believe, came to power only less than 12 months ago.

Labour has thrown away its lead in the polls and its goodwill among voters in a quite spectacular fashion.

The Party’s failure to speak out about the genocide in Gaza and its continued arms sales to Israel no doubt played a massive part in the loss of one of the safest seats in the area.

Withdrawing winter fuel payments from pensioners, cutting benefits for the  disabled, cuts to public services and failure to fund the NHS were all raised.

Voters routinely stated that Labour lied to get elected. That the Party has let them down. That they are dishonest and not to be trusted. That the mainstream parties are all the same – it doesn’t matter who you vote for, your life doesn’t get any better. And that’s from voters across the spectrum.

If this is a glimpse of what Labour can expect in the local elections, then the party is heading for a nightmare wipe-out.

Its only scrap of consolation is that the other main parties are equally hated.

Source: Shock by-election win for Ilford independents – Labour Hub