People have got very excited with their hot takes over Holborn and St Pancras. Zack Polanski has been ‘humiliated’, and yet nobody has ever got within 3,364 votes of beating Labour before in the constituency. And this at a time when some Lib Dems and Tories were holding their noses and lending Labour votes. Even if it was a by-election and we have that universal get-out that ‘things are different in by-elections’ I’d never have thought sitting through the election counts in the Dobson/early Starmer days that the majority here would be this low. Then the Greens say they trebled their vote share, but we know that’s really distorted because they weren’t really playing in 2024 when they were virtually telling supporters to vote for Andrew Feinstein. And Labour are hailing a blistering victory for ‘hope’, but spent every day with hundreds of people knocking on doors, bought lots of ads and brought all the big guns out for a return of only 12k votes - 82 per cent of eligible voters in the constituency didn’t vote for them despite all this effort. No wonder the X bot was confused.