Rereading my post from yesterday on the Hampstead Town by-election I'm struck by how little judgement I passed on the loss by the Tories of a second councillor since May 2006. To paraphrase Lady Bracknell, as so many have done before me, "to lose one councillor, Mr [Marshall], may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose [two] looks like carelessness."
Why are the Camden Tories haemorrhaging votes when their party is riding high in the national polls? Possibly because the Lib Dems and the Greens are better at local campaigning than they are. The Tories have money which helps them with the air war, but you can't win wars from the air (as the Americans keep finding out to their cost). Only the Lib Dems and the Greens have the foot soldiers to be able to win the ground war.
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