CounterPunch | J Gilray/LoC
The political gloom lifted here just a bit this week, when it became clear there will soon be a leadership contest in the British Labour Party…. Labour received the worst drubbing in its history: 1400 municipal council seats lost, including 450 in London; loss of control of the Welsh Senedd (the quasi-independent, unicameral legislature); and an equally large defeat in Scotland. In London, Labour surrendered votes to the Greens – now, under Zack Polanski, a socialist alternative – and ceded control of half the borough councils.