Don’t Blame Me I Voted Yes!
Usually, I’m the one who gets blamed for everything. After all, I’ve had so much bad luck and sorrow lately, that people feel that to heap a bit more on me won’t do any harm!
But if you’re disappointed that you voted Yes to AV and didn’t win, then you can’t blame me, as I did the same! At least though after the result and a good lunch with a friend in Carluccio’s, I had enough strength to take back the bottomless box to IKEA and get it replaced and buy another four!
One of their guys told me that bottomless Branas boxes are a bit of a problem. So when you buy them check you have the five parts and they are all strapped together. After all, what use is a Branas without an as?
The Anonymous Widower 
Hackney did vote yes though, along with Islington, Camden, Lambeth, Southwark, Haringey, Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow Kelvin, Edinburgh Central. It was almost 50:50 in Brighton. Spot any pattern here?
Comment by Marc | May 6, 2011 |
There is a pattern, but as a statistician, I wouldn’t judge them yet. The turnout was low in London, but there really wasn’t a standout pattern there. Some Consevative areas gave a strong No and so did some Labour areas like Brent and Barking.
The only thing I might throw in was that there was a lot of canvassing by both sides in central London boroughs, so did that give a higher turnout.
I think we should wait until someone with better statistics than me gives a definitive analysis.
Comment by AnonW | May 6, 2011 |
Actually the pattern is crystal clear – the areas with more trendy intellectuals and alternative type people went for AV. Unless you think there is just as many of the chattering classes in Barking as Islington.
Comment by Marc | May 7, 2011 |
I think I’ll go along with that. In other words conservative areas, with a small cee, didn’t want change. After all most old Labour voters are very conservative and haven’t changed their views in decades.
I also think that there may be another factor at work here. Most of those reading the literature on the Dalston Omnibus were women and a lot weren’t white. As I said before I don’t make snap judgements and that may not be correct. I await a proper study with interest.
Comment by AnonW | May 7, 2011 |