Talk:Telegraph Hill, Lewisham

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I don't really find the result of the 2006 borough council election interesting enough to justify the amount of space given to it, but I accept that this is just my personal taste, so I've left it in. However, the statement that Respect DIDN'T stand in that election seemed too trivial to keep, so I deleted it; there are lots of parties that didn't stand in that council election - surely we don't have to list them all? Dodo64 20:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can see how the political detail may seem somewhat arcane - I'm sure the neighbourhood's political representation in the borough council doesn't play any major role in its day-to-day life. :-) But to someone with an interest in local politics, the results of this particular ward are striking: it really makes the ward unique among all of London's 624 wards. When I was poring over the election results, Telegraph Hill's result was one of just a handful that stood out as constituting an extreme in the city.

I'm no big fan of Militant/Trotskyite politics myself, but its contemporary success in this one ward as well as the record cumulative score for the parties left of the Lib-Dems are definitely elements of Telegraph Hill's profile that makes it different from any other London neighbourhood. The results table illustrates that.

Of course I'm really glad however that you added some "beef" about the actual issues dominating local politics. Now the info is more rounded off for general interest, and not purely focused on just the statistical side of things anymore! And deleting the bit about Respect's absence seems fair enough. No-itsme 16:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of politics summary from introductory section[edit]

The latest edit which removes from the introductory section the sentence detailing the ward's political uniqueness, on the grounds that this is adequately covered in the "Politics" section, is a misunderstanding of the function of the introductory paragraph in Wikipedia articles, which is to summarise matters expanded on in subsequent sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkbrown (talk • contribs) 22:21, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wording Re: Politics[edit]

At some point, my original addition to the article that Telegraph Hill was unique among London's 624 wards politically, because it had the largest share of votes for parties to the left of Labour and the LibDems, was changed to say that it was the ward with the highest share of the vote for non-mainstream parties, tout court.

I'm not sure if this is true, since rightwing or local-interest parties may have captured significant shares of the vote in other wards. I've therefore changed the wording again to say more specifically that it had the largest share of votes going to "non-mainstream, left-wing" parties. I did that in both places where it was mentioned.

I did so without first signing in, sorry about that. No-itsme (talk) 02:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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