Southwark Liberal Democrats come close to beating Labour across Southwark. Quite amazing considering two sitting Labour MP and one Lib Dem MP represent Southwark at Westminster.
Local Liberal Democrats in East Dulwich, and across Southwark are celebrating after coming the closest they have ever been to beating Labour across the whole borough in a European election. The Labour majority nearly halved with the Conservatives coming a distant third. The Conservative vote fell from 19.3% in the 2008 GLA elections to 14.9% this year.
The news even says Gordon Brown is toying with the idea of Single Transferable Voting for other elections. Times they are a changing…..