Five more defections from Labour to the Greens are sending Labour into meltdown ahead of local elections that look increasingly badRight, so five Labour councillors in Brent didn’t suddenly wake up allergic to red rosettes. They left because Keir Starmer has dragged the party so far off its moral axis that staying would’ve made them look dishonest in front of the very people who elected them and because the Green Party actually stands for the values that were formerly Labour’s. And you can see why. Councillors aren’t fools — they’re the first to feel the backlash when a party stops sounding like the values it claims to represent. So when five walk out together, and when others in Lambeth and Hammersmith & Fulham have already done the same, you’re not looking at local turbulence. You’re looking at the cost of Starmer’s leadership. Even the pol ...