Our London Assembly Election Campaign
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More tweets from the hustings:
Discussions about alternative ways to increase housing stock. @Chrissie_W13 advocates modular construction @ChrisD_French talks about repurposing office blocks@ShinyShep: need to retrofit
Adam says the solution is abolishing capitalism.
— Herne Hill Forum (@hernehillforum) April 24, 2024
Adam says the police exist primary to protect property rights, not support the community.@ChrisD_French said mayor should not be police and crime commissioner- that should be someone else and met needs reform.@ShinyShep emphasised need to reform the met
— Herne Hill Forum (@hernehillforum) April 24, 2024
Leasehold reform. Member of public said @SadiqKhan had not carried out commonhold pilot scheme he had said he would@LabourMarina said she would look into the pilot issue.
Adam said leasehold is a feudal relic
— Herne Hill Forum (@hernehillforum) April 24, 2024
@ChrisD_French doesn’t own a car. Need a pavement up approach. Active travel is great but we need pavements clear of clutter and hire bikes
Adam said we should have free public transport.@LabourMarina said LTNs have improved active travel options
— Herne Hill Forum (@hernehillforum) April 24, 2024
Leafletting today in Brixton:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/10048538/4446544912577219645
150 or so there and in Clapham High Street. A further 250 in Streatham Hill.
The Southwark News in its article on the mayor and assembly elections
https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/politics/london-elections-2024-how-do-they-work/
refers its readers for details on who the candidates are and what they stand for to this site:
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/gla.c.2024-05-02/london-assembly-elections-constituencies/
where, in the appropriate places, there is a link to a copy of our election leaflet.
Southwark News report, published today, on that Herne Hill hustings:
Missed this:
City Hall election: "send a message that you want a world of common ownership and democratic control"
Socialist Party of Great Britain candidate Bill Martin on their London Assembly platformhttps://t.co/VEkT9AZOG3
— BarnetPost (@BarnetPost) April 28, 2024
Four of us handed out 400 or so of our leaflet at the May Day event in central London today, a march from Clerkenwell Green at the edge of the City to Trafalgar Square for a rally to be addressed by various leftwing trade union leaders including Mick Lynch.
We decided that the easiest way to move our stall from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square was to go with the march. But behind which banner? Certainly not any of the “Marxist-Leninist” contingents from workers from the Middle East and Asia with their hammer and sickle banners and especially not the one with a huge picture of Stalin. In the end we settled for Haringey trades council which happened to be the last one. So, we were as far away as possible from the vanguard(s).
The sad truth is that without the “Marxist-Leninist” contingents there would only have been a few hundred there. The trade union banners were followed only by 3 or 4 people. Also, some there seemed to think that there were on a pro-Palestine march.
At one point a man obvious City gent crossed the road between the marchers. We asked him if, as a capitalist, he felt intimidated by a workers’ march. He replied that he didn’t.
Voted: they only cursorily checked my ID (just to make sure there was a photo there at all), then handed my ID to a supervisor. I made a wee fuss, but she explained they were just tallying use of council issued ID.
I forgot my stickers, so had to spoil my ballot long hand.
Another mention in the local media:
Lambeth and Southwark election candidates for London Assembly
We had to ask for the original version to be corrected because it had us advocating TUSC’s programme of reforms.
Today they verified the number of votes cast. Tomorrow they will count the number cast for each candidate.
Here are the figures for Barnet and Camden. They give the size of the electorate (413,809) and the number of voters (163,657). So, turnout here of just under 40%.
The figures for Lambeth & Southwark are 448,552 and 175,428, a turnout of just over 39%.
Result for Lambeth & Southwark just declared:
LAB 84768
GRN 35144
LD. 22030
CON 21121
RFM 8942
SOC 2082 or 1.2%Barnet & Camden 1639 (1%)
Labour 70,749 43.2%
Conservative 51,606 31.5%
Green 18,405 11.2%
Liberal Democrats 12,335 7.5%
Reform UK 7,703 4.7%
Socialist (GB) 1,639 1.0%So, our results are about par, a bit down on our best in Lambeth…
Looks like not many voters followed Ed Griffiths’s advice (which we didn’t endorse) and voted for us in the constituencies and the Communist Party for the party list vote:
In Barnet & Camden the CPB list got 719 votes and in Lambeth & Southwark 945.
I met the Reform UK candidate, Tony Sharp, at the count and he described the CPB as tankies. I suppose most of them would have been. Apparently he was once the deputy leader of UKIP.
Well done to everyone who took part in the campaign, and hopefully we’ll get some more interest from it.
More psephology. There was only one other group using the word “socialist” standing in the GLA elections — TUSC, the front organisation of the spurious socialist but actually state-capitalist organisation that calls itself SPEW.
They stood in 4 geographical constituencies like the 2 we stood in. Here is how they did:
North East: 5595 2.7%
City and East: 4710 2.6%
Croydon & Sutton: 2766 1.6%
Havering & Redbridge: 2145 1.2%The same league as us even if higher up the table despite offering attractive sounding reforms in the hope of garnering votes. A minor reformist party that can’t compete with the bigger ones when it comes to that.
Their task is as difficult as ours but at least ours — socialism — is worth campaigning for.
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