[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.
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