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[snipped]This is just gibberish, isn't it?  Why not just say 'LOTS OF FOREIGNERS CAME TO LIVE IN LONDON AND THE ROTTERS ALL VOTED LABOUR' if it's what you actually mean?London's always been a shifting population subject to demographic changes - this nonsense about 'traditional British surnames' is pretty close to outright bigotry, as well.  You can't tell from an electoral roll entry where someone was born, grew up or went to school so any assumptions you do make are likely to be based on prejudice rather than facts.Also this idea that selfish people with no sense of community vote for the parties that tend to prioritise social rather than individualist solutions needs work on the logic front, too - if these incomers really are 'interested in their own wealth making and family, and not the community' they'd be voting for the heirs of Thatcher rather than Attlee, wouldn't they?  That was Thatcher's great central idea, after all.All in all, what's wrong with the idea that Labour identified key London battlegrounds in 2015 and made damn sure they won them in 2014 by getting feet on the street and ensuring the vote turned out?  Walpole ward's in Ealing Central and Acton, after all.  Supporting this idea is that they actually said before the election that this is what they were planning...Finally this...'Caught between the risk of being tainted by the race card or spurning it's bedrock supporters.'...implies that you think the Conservatives bedrock supporters are racists. That might be your issue there, actually.Personally I reckon the strategy of pushing Ealing as the next Hammersmith and Fulham may not have been the brightest idea given what happened there last Thursday.  That particular libertarian-influenced experiment turned out to be a dead end, not the future of local government, but it took in a lot of Tory strategists on the way by the looks of it.

Thomas Barry ● 4353d

It is no real surprise in this ward given the rapid change in demographics.Take a closer look and the electoral register reveals a demographic that is now all over London.Page after page show a minority of traditional British surnames. Quite different to just 8 years ago.  There are surnames from just about every nation.Get to know the district well and you find that a lot of these are quite wealthy people, new to the area.  They are unlikely to vote, they are simply not interested. They are interested in their own wealth making and family, and not the community.  Rather like our middle class upwardly mobile generation. Then there are the ordinary folk who are new citizens. Labour has gone out of their way to be friends of those new to the UK and have won their loyalty.Collectively, they are no longer a minority but the range of origins are far and wide so broken down, they are still minorities. Labour and the Lib Dems have spent years capitalising on their fears and how they are the party to protect their interests. They have done a pretty good job of brainwashing many who in real life have no socialist principles whatsoever but see that Labour might well be the soft option.At the same time, UKIP have done the same thing with other parts of the community.And the Tories have ignored whats going on. Caught between the risk of being tainted by the race card or spurning it's bedrock supporters.Probably the moral and correct thing to do. But not a vote gainer from the new majority.It's time the Tories opened up and appealed to the many who do wish to be part of the community and to now expose the fickle way in which so many are lured in purely for their vote. To prove that they can represent those who choose to live here, so they can feel that they can be included whatever their outlook.It needs to show how honour and sincerity, equality through ability and honesty, can overcome fickleness, greed and corruption.This is the ticking timebomb that Labour will one day have to deal with.It knows it has allowed too many who are using them for their own ends.That it could undermine the many who are genuine about their political beliefs.So the opportunity exists for the Tories to embrace a wider range of local peoples on a cleaner more open, more honest ticket.Who knows it might spread right through all the parties and then we might really have a better place for all.

Anthony Waller ● 4354d