I fear that England is just a deeply conservative country; it's no surprise that the only Labour leader to have won a general election in the last 40 years was Blair

Yep :/ Siiiigh. I miss London so much when I'm not here, but jeez. At least here we have Sadiq, even if Bailey did upsettingly well and Fox got SO much more attention than he merits.

Have moved to Bromley - well, Penge - and I live in the wrong-side-of-the-tracks bit but there's a posh bit nearby so it's very Tory at council level :(