Cllr James Esses represents High Barnet Ward on Barnet Council. “The Conservative Party is dead”. Not in Barnet it isn’t. In fact, it’s thriving. The results of the May local elections offer irrefutable proof of this. In an age of heightened disillusionment with politics, increased fracturing of party loyalty, and Reform snapping at the heels of the traditional parties, Barnet Conservatives received 102,246 votes (35.4 per cent of the popular v…