Greenwich voters went to the polls yesterday in the General Election and Council Election and delivered a successful set of results for Labour.
Nick Raynsford was re-elected as the MP for Greenwich & Woolwich with 49.2% of the vote. Spencer Drury moved the Conservatives into second place, with the Liberal Democrat candidate coming third.
In the local elections, Labour candidates swept the board in the Peninsula and Greenwich West wards.
By the end of the night, Labour were up by four council seats, taking two from the Conservatives and wiping out the Lib Dems who were defending two seats in the Middle Park and Sutcliffe ward.
There’s a good chance that this was the last Council election to be held under the present voting system. It would be possible but much less likely for Labour to gain a majority under a form of PR (my tentative preference would be for 10 five-member wards elected under a form of Single Transferable Vote).
No sane person from another party would agree to join a coalition with a Labour Party led by Chris Roberts – a man who appears to have official approval to nominate different home addresses for different purposes.
Roll on May 1st 2014.
and what about PR? i don’t want labour…