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How does one Define a "I", "II", "III", "IV", "V" Class type of person anyway....

Funny that the Bluest and the Purplest areas seem to be the most Liberal Democrat...

Presumably, where they're significantly stronger than Labour they mop up Labour strategic votes easily, which makes them stronger in wealthier areas where Labour is weak.

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Not sure, but probably ones strongest in India.

No Jedi?

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You get the impression that the areas most likely to vote LibDem are those where the residents are most likely to be well insulated against any economic unpleasantness... looking at you Twickenham and Richmond!

Then surely the Lib Dems should be winning Kensington and Chelsea?

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Hampstead and Kilburn is indeed very marginal on the new boundaries, but much of the old Brent East vote was enthusiastic support for Sarah Teather. I'm not sure another candidate can garner that many votes in the area. (Teather should win Brent Central, though, despite it being fairly Labour notionally. She's a phenomenal campaigner.)

As for Lewisham Deptford, the Greens really don't have a chance unless the Lib Dems decide not to run a candidate as much of their vote locally goes Lib Dem nationally and has for a while.

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Doubt it. Partly because Dawn Butler is no slouch, but also because Brent Central is about a quarter Black and they all (around 80% of them anyway) vote Labour and do not have any interest in voting for other parties (and that's a fact, not an opinion or even an assumption).

Teather got some bad news last week, btw. There was a by-election in the Stonebridge ward on Thursday and the LibDems put a lot of effort into it. Turnout was very low and the LibDems squeezed the Tory and Green votes away into hardly anything. There was also a strong Respect candidate. But the Labour vote hardly fell from 2006.
While there was never a realistic chance that Labour would lose Stonebridge the failure of the LibDems to eat into the Labour vote there is, erm, "cause for concern" because if the Labour vote in Stonebridge, Harlesden and so on stays solid, there's no way that Labour can lose Brent Central.

That's got to be some of the most extreme spin I've ever heard. The Lib Dems came within 10% of knocking off Labour in one their safest wards in the seat, and it's bad news for the Lib Dems? Tuh. Labour doesn't even come close to a notional majority, so coalescing the "opposition-to-Labour" vote plus a few transfers are all Teather needs.

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There's some residual blue on the Labour map... negative percentages?