Blame

[coalescent]

It's been a while since I felt so completely out of step with what polls and elections tell me is the national mood. A friend of mine just emailed the list of places that actually voted Yes to AV -- Hackney, Glasgow Kelvin, Islington, Haringey, Lambeth, Cambridge, Oxford, Southwark, Camden, Edinburgh Central -- which makes some sense of this,

Comments

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'm with you on all of this.

And despite doing all of my campaigning in an area that voted Yes, I still blame myself for not doing more.

[coalescent]

I donated to the campaign, but that was all. Bah.

[huskyscotsman]

Likewise. And I tried to persuade friends and family (hopefully without pissing them off too much), but it was very much preaching to the choir.

[coalescent]

That's true, I did persuade one of my colleagues, who had only seen No materials, to vote Yes.

[huskyscotsman]

Well, there you go!

[coalescent]

I hadn't realised that your district is in the list as well! Tempted to do an LJ poll to find out who isn't in one of the eight, or hasn't been at some point...

[huskyscotsman]

And previously I've lived in... good god, Camden, Haringey and Lambeth.

Maybe I should use this as a shortlist for the next time I move. Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh all sound pretty good. Southwark? Not sure what it's like to live there, but it's certainly got plenty of artsy stuff going on...