London local council by-election campaign
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It wouldn’t have taken long as there were only 1418 papers to count (there were 3 invalid votes, voting for more than one candidate).
I was at the count and it only took a couple of hours. Talked to the Tory candidate who thanked us for sending him a copy of the Socialist Standard with the articles on Adam Smith. We had hoped that he might be tempted into replying in writing.
The result is in line with what we get at local by-elections in the area.
Turn-out was 22 percent down from 27 percent at the full council elections last May.
Yes but it means that Mick McGahey’s joke doesn’t work so well any more. But I see that one of the candidates in the Rutherglen parliamentary by-election (where 10 signatories are still required) also held yesterday one of the candidate got only 6 votes. Maybe the punchline is that 4 members got expelled for not voting for their candidate.
Anyway, nine more nails in the coffin of the capitalist mode of production.
Add those to the eleven secured in Tunbridge Wells last year and the revolution will be a-coming anytime soon.
“At least that’s not fewer votes than nominations, these days.”
How many nominations is it these days for local elections?
And it only cost £105 to print 2000 leaflets and nothing to distribute them.
Nobody has yet made the point that in the Rutherglen by-election in Scotland yesterday that the TUSC candidate got the same percentage of the vote which in number of votes was 178:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Rutherglen_and_Hamilton_West_by-election
And they campaigned for a whole raft of reforms. In any event, we are both in the sane league.
” . . .sane league.”
Dr Freud has entered the conversation.
Just joshing.
I saw that the SSP also had a candidate in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. Arguably more high-profile than the TUSC candidate. He didn’t do much better.
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