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.
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.
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.
