I find it incredible the people in the UK that can see all the lies, hypocrisy, double-dealing, shifty lack of morals and opportunism that Johnson offers yet seem Ok to vote for him.
It's said that many right-wing Conservatives are Christian and have a deep moral view on Families and the like - how can they vote for this man?
Just very odd.
I guess we are learning from the US where people hide some hugely nasty social views behind a pretty fake veneer of Christianity, and are happy to elect some pretty nasty people as a result.
Locally I have reached the stage where I would be surprised if Labour don't pick up Chingford and Woodford Green.
LDs are running a candidate in name only, no push for them at all, and Labour are clearly throwing everything at this one, was canvassed once before I went off on holiday, and had 2 more canvassing visits while away. I'm not sure that is the best use of canvassing resources when there are other seats in the outer North London ring that they should be fighting hard in as well, but I think it will pay off for them here. We even have Hugh Grant helping them with a rally this week.
Tories on the other hand just don't have much of a ground game at all (unsurprisingly given their member numbers and their age!), with the national polls closing I think Labour should be optimistic on this one, surprised to see nobody doing a consituency poll for it yet, just dependant on MRP models so far. I suppose the only proviso is that I do live in part of the seat which is a bit more Labour-friendly, so maybe getting a slightly misleading impression.
It was pretty much a 50:50 Leave:Remain seat in 2016, but demographic change is helping Labour here too, a lot of people moving out from Hackney etc, in search of slightly more value for Housing, I would imagine Chingford itself remains pretty true blue though.