Waltham Forest is the borough that gave us Norman Tebbit and Iain Duncan Smith. Yet it has a local council composed of a Lab/Lib Dem coalition. It has three constituencies and while Chingford and Woodford Green is Conservative, the other two are Labour. While Walthamstow is a safe Labour seat, Leyton and Wanstead is Target 165.
One encouraging bit of news is that the Lib Dems appear to have imploded. The Lib Dem leader, Cllr John Macklin, Cllr Bob Bellam. a Cabinet Member and Cllr Bob Carey, the Lib Dem Chief Whip are all now standing as independents against official Lib Dem candidates. Quite extraordinary.
Last year Labour had their own bit of implosion with Lord Harris denouncing the "developing scandal" of fraudulent misspending in the Council.
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