Lewis Baston: Green gain in Greenwich highlights local pressures

Lewis Baston: Green gain in Greenwich highlights local pressures

There was a spectacular result in Thursday’s by-election in the Shooters Hill ward of Greenwich Council, where the Greens gained the seat from Labour with a big swing after a campaign dominated by local issues. There have been five by-elections in Greenwich in just over a year. That’s more than anywhere else in London recently, suggesting the maritime borough is not a happy ship. One of those by-elections, held last November, was also for a Shoo…