Borehamwood North Bye-Election Result

Unfortunately the residents of Borehamwood North stayed away in their droves and as a consequence the turnout for this County Bye-Election was only 18.5% despite a 62.5% turnout in the postal votes. This means that only 1450 people approx. out of an electorate of around 11000 bothered to walk (in some cases less that 400 metres) to the polling station.

So much for the "oldest democracy!"

Any way the residents of Borehamwood North now have a political novice to deal with (or not as the case may be) their problems. The Tory record in Borehamwood is poor and even though the victor is a Rabbi and community minded, so he says, my guess is he will be no better than any of his Borough colleagues when it comes to getting to grips with the nitty gritty. Certainly where I live the 3 Tory Borough Councillors are almost anonymous and are actually never heard from. Most of the residents wouldn't know them because they always blame it on the Government, even though Labour hasn't had any control in these parts for 10 years. Oh well c'est la vie!

The result, by the way, was

Rabbi Plancey, Con. 982
Leon Reefe, Labour. 928
Robert Gamble, Lib Dem, 170
Independent, 125
Con. Majority 54. Con being the operative here!

Before anyone says sour grapes, no just very disappointed that once again (and I know it isn't personal) the electors have allowed themselves to sleepwalk into letting a Tory in just because they found it too much trouble to walk a few metres to vote or even less metres to post their vote.

Oh happy days!!