Stephen Bush: There’s a window on the estate that has, since the last election, had a “vote Diane Abbott” poster which has over the last few days changed to “Vote Green”, which is just a beautiful snapshot of how odd electoral behaviour can be.

There’s a window on the estate that has, since the last election, had a “vote Diane Abbott” poster which has over the last few days changed to “Vote Green”, which is just a beautiful snapshot of how odd electoral behaviour can be.

Enjoying the group of voters in some areas who are going to have gone Lib Dem - UKIP - Green since 2010

I’ve known plenty of local council candidates who been through four or five (or more) parties with radically different ideologies. Local politics is ridiculous.

It's a glorious thing to witness

The sheer whiplash from that is difficult to imagine, it's like Obama-Trump level of political swing!

It's quite normal for voters to behave this way, you get used to it

Crikey

Once you've reached the zen acceptance that ideological consistency is for weirdos, voters become more interesting and comprehensible

Yeah. But it’s very hard to reach that point if you’re a weirdo. Speaking for myself, anyway.

I kept a running mental tally of the places on Archway Road with a Corbyn leadership “Honest Politics” poster in the window in 2015. All four had all gone Green by 2019. I appreciate this is anecdata not a sample.

It’s fascinating how the Blackstock Road end of the constituency is absolutely covered in JC flyers this time around and the Archway Road one isn’t, IMO.

Cracks me up that I can now say “oh, that end has the centre left natural wine bars, and that end has the leftwing natural wine bars”.

“That’s the centre left kebab shop, and that’s the hard left kebab shop.”

other than on the actual office I haven't seen a single Corbyn flyer anywhere in Archway

Same. Also true of the Highbury Barn end, to the point that when Owen Jones turned up I was like “huh, I had just assumed that ward had moved into Emily’s patch”.

I always think whoever decided the 263 would run from Highbury Barn to High Barnet was having a fun day at the office.

A bunch of signs went up in the market around the station and then came down. No idea.

Weirdly having lived round there this just feels right. Like if you had to ask for a JC epicenter it would run along that end of Seven Sisters

Yeeaah, up to a point, in that it’s the Arsenal end and the Kurdish end, but I think, that’s only true post-Brexit. e.g. my first serious girlfriend’s parents were JCx2 (plus all the GEs since 1983) second reffers as are loads of people round the Archway Road end.

I feel like if (when? I just think his campaign being visibly better has to matter) he wins it will be a fascinating mirror image of his strongest areas in ‘05.

Intrigued to see how the vote breaks down. Also now pining for some Baban Naan.

Squealer has knobbled her!

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