It was a sad dismal result for the overall YES campaign in the AV election. The Tories and BNP won with a resounding NO vote nationally . I don’t know about the rest of the country but locally in Southwark the Labour and Green parties didn’t practically support the YES campaign. On election day we were fortunate to have two Labour supporters helping in East Dulwich – one being Margaret Higman a former councillor for Alleyn ward.
But in East Dulwich we ran a full YES campaign. We delivered 4 YES leaflets and 2 YES letters across the ward and ran a knocking up operation on the day.
The East Dulwich box count was really positive with a high turnout and roughly 70:30 split for YES and NO voting. Overall Southwark had 53% voting YESand undoubtedly East Dulwich made a big difference to this overall results.
So a big thank you to everyone who voted but especially those that voted yes and everyone who helped run the campaign locally in East Dulwich.
“The Tories and BNP won with a resounding NO vote nationally.”
This makes you sound absolutely pathetic. No grace in defeat at all.
The Tories and the BNP? I know a Labour MP who was supporting the No campaign as were at least half their party. BNP would actuall have benefitted from AV as would UKIP who were supporting the YES vote.
So no surprise that Southwark Labour didn’t help you run a Yes campaign.
You lost badly. The country doesn’t want your system, so stop trying to paint those of us who voted “NO” as BNP sympathisers or whatnots, it’s pathetic and beneath you..