| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Chiswick Riverside ward election result declared | |
| Posted by: | Michael Robinson | |
| Date/Time: | 15/05/26 16:16:00 |
| The developments in Brentford on the S side of the A315 were part of Chiswick Riverside in the 2022 elections so won't be included in the large increase of Riverside electorate between 2022 and 2026. The new developments by the stadium look like the main reason why Riverside electorate increased. In London, the best predictor of people voting Conservative (and Reform) isn't wealth but age. Conservative support is very heavily skewed towards older age groups. People living in the newer developments will be younger and I'd be pretty confident they will not be Conservative supporters in the main. You claim "for many voters in Chiswick Homefields and Chiswick Gunnersbury with LTNs also a sore point for many". So what LTNs are a sore point for voters in Chiswick Homefields and Gunnersbury? Because with the exception of the roads closed many years ago to stop rat running (e.g. Beverley Rd, Vaughan Ave) there haven't been any new ones installed there. On the other hand, Riverside has had a whole series of LTN measures since 2020 as part of the S Chiswick liveable neighbourhood scheme. The Conservatives campaigned on opposing these measures in 2022 and 2026 and what happened? They lost a Cllr each year. Maybe the younger demographic in the new developments can explain 2026 but it doesn't explain 2022. If the S Chiswick LTN measures had been that unpopular then the Conservatives should have won all seats in 2022 and 2026 but they didn't and have gone backwards. The Conservatives would be pretty dumb to keep campaigning on issues like C9 and LTNs. To paraphrase the physicist Max Planck "science advances one funeral at a time" and Conservative voters will die off and be replaced by people who have grown up with bike lanes and LTNs and just view them as normal, just like even Conservative voters in Homefields view closed access to Chiswick Lane as normal. |