, plus a registrar (senior resident) who would shoo
us all into the labour ward's OR and do a section at a moment's notice.
When Kathy, my wife, went
into the labour ward (December 5, 2003) I sat with her reading Julian Le Grand's book on motivation and public policy, working out which passages I could use for an Oxford admissions interview.
Not exact matches
This seat, which includes part of the
ward of High Furness (I've halved the votes from there and italicised them), is heading straight to the Tories - an 18 %
Labour lead four years ago has turned
into a seven per cent Tory lead now.
Labour has, however, supplanted the Conservatives as the main opposition party (albeit still 15 seats short of the Liberal Democrats) and the Greens continue to hold their own in Callowland
ward, pushing the Conservatives
into the smallest party position.
Yes,
Labour got its vote out, but the story from too many
wards across London is not of wholesale switching from the Tories to
Labour but of Ukip cutting
into the Tories» vote and allowing
Labour through.
For
Labour to be on track to move
into government, in the London election, the party should have won a comfortable clean sweep of Tory
wards where a swing of 5 % was required.
In the 1990s the Liberal Democrats enjoyed success at a local level here, but it never translated
into Parliamentary strength and following a difficult period of Liberal Democrat - Conservative control of Hackney council they largely collapsed, leaving every council seat in this
ward in the hands of
Labour.