I am indeed grateful to General Grumble for pointing this out…………totally incredible achievement……….what does it portend…………the SPGB candidate Daniel lambert got 2,900 votes……………the comrades long march to socialism through the ballot box has lift off….hats off to Adam Buick and all the lads and lasses at Clapham high street!!

******the more i think about it the more wonderful this result is……..the SPGB standing on a pure platform of utopian socalism through the ballot box have outpolled TUSC with its reformist anti- cuts position. Even the SPGB cant work it out…….thanks to general grumble again…

From their blog

“What is intriguing is why the vote for TUSC should have been smaller than the vote for us (1047 less in Lambeth & Southwark and 439 less in Merton & Wandsworth). Since TUSC was offering a programme of attractive reforms (“jobs with a living wage for all”, “no cuts”, “cheap, efficient and safe public transport”, “affordable homes for all”, “free education”) while we just advocated socialism, it might have been expected that they would have got more votes than us.

There are various possible explanations ranging from a statistical one (6 and 7 candidates in the constituencies compared with 13 lists) to the political ones that TUSC appealed mainly for the votes of trade unionists in the public sector while our appeal was directed at workers generally or even that some who voted for us deliberately didn’t vote for them because they didn’t believe in their reformist approach or the feasibility of their reforms within capitalism.”

“Just recalculated and we did get more votes in the 4 London boroughs combined than the BNP: 4281 as against their 4086.”

http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/