Q: What do you get when you cross a left anorak with a psephologistA: Someone who will click on this latest/final post from the SPGB's election blog, Vaux Populi.
The comrades over at VP give a breakdown of the votes for the SPGB candidate in the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. Turns out the Party's best ward vote - a whopping 71 votes - was in the Larkhall ward. I'm not knocking it. It's the first recorded victory of a Menshevik over a Bolshevik (71-50) since the Georgian Parliamentary Election of 1919.
Now we know where to concentrate comrades. Larkhall can be the Little Moscow Paris Commune for the 21st century.
PS
Q: What a good definition of 'reaching'?A: When the comrade in the same post suggests that the SPGB's best result in Southwark - Faraday Ward - can be put down to the fact that the Party had an " . . . outdoor speaking station [that] we ran at East Street from the 1930s to the 1960s." [My emphasis.]
That comrade is now being head-hunted by Gordon Brown for the position of Chief Spindoctor for the forthcoming General Election.
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