Why Labour lost my ward...

For non-Brits, local elections in part of England were held on Thursday. Labour took a drubbing and Blair, to show that he wasn't worried, reshuffled his Cabinet so hard it screamed for mercy. In Southwark, the council has no party in overall majority: 28 seats each for Labour and the LibDems, 6 Tories (from Dulwich and that doesn't count much) and 1 Green. Labour lost all three seats in my ward (which is fine with me as I'm a LibDem). However, I got a hint of why that was this morning.

I got stuff from the LibDems in my mailbox (I'm on their mailing list natch), I got a leaflet from an independent candidate. But nothing from Labour. I thought they'd decided (from the frosty reception I gave them when they called me a few years ago) that I was a lost cause to them.

So the elections were Thursday; I emptied my mailbox on Friday. Saturday I opened the mailbox and what did I find? The leaflet from Labour urging me to vote Labour in Thursday's election!

Better late than never? I think not!