Tooting
2015 Result:
Conservative: 22421 (41.9%)
Labour: 25263 (47.2%)
Lib Dem: 2107 (3.9%)
Green: 2201 (4.1%)
UKIP: 1537 (2.9%)
MAJORITY: 2842 (5.3%)
Category: Semi-marginal Labour seat
Geography: Greater London. Part of the Wandsworth council area.
Main population centres: Tooting, Earlsfield, Balham.
Profile: A traditionally working class area, Tooting is the more Labour inclined part of the constituency and has a significant ethnic minority community. In both Earlsfield and Balham though attractive Victorian housing and good transport links have seen house prices forced up as middle class professionals move in. The seat includes Wandsworth Common.
Politics: The most Labour inclined of the three seats that make up the Conservative`s "flagship borough" of Wandsworth. While Wandsworth is a solidly Conservative borough at a local level, all three seats fell to Labour in 1997. Putney was regained by the Tories in 2005, Battersea in 2010, Tooting has remained Labour.
| Con: | 19514 (39%) |
| Lab: | 22038 (44%) |
| LDem: | 7509 (15%) |
| UKIP: | 624 (1%) |
| Oth: | 970 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 2524 (5%) |
| Con: | 12533 (30%) |
| Lab: | 17914 (43%) |
| LDem: | 8110 (20%) |
| GRN: | 1695 (4%) |
| Oth: | 1316 (3%) |
| MAJ: | 5381 (13%) |
| Con: | 9932 (26%) |
| Lab: | 20332 (54%) |
| LDem: | 5583 (15%) |
| GRN: | 1744 (5%) |
| MAJ: | 10400 (28%) |
| Con: | 12505 (27%) |
| Lab: | 27516 (60%) |
| LDem: | 4320 (9%) |
| Oth: | 935 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 15011 (33%) |
*There were boundary changes after 2005
I misread the article linked to above.
“The Village Café, on York Rise, is where Fleabag works, and her flat, while filmed in a studio, is set in Dartmouth Park; finally, her sister Clare’s house is on Laurier Road.”
Location manager interviewed here about series 1 https://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2017/01/27/hit-bbc-show-fleabag-set-nw5/
So Dartmouth Park could have been standing in for Tooting, although Claire only mentions it in series 2. So maybe the character moved. Not that the producers probably gave it this much thought.
Pretty certain PW-B is an Ealing girl. I know someone who went to school with her there and i would guess she’s upper m/c.
Her character doesn’t disclose any UK political allegiance but I am fairly certain if she has become a U.S resident, she’d vote for Biden not Trump as she gave the distinct impression of being a big fan of Barack Obama…if you know what I mean. 😉
No, we don’t know what you mean.
Perhaps it’s for the best in your case.
Yes, she was a big Obama fan – the clip is on YouTube, but not something we can discuss on a family site like this. 🙂 She does later suggest she wants the priest to tell her who to vote for.
PWB is from Ealing, yes. I believe she’s distantly related to Conservative MP Edward Leigh: her Wiki says “On her father’s side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876.” On the Wiki for The Rev. Leigh, it says “They had several children, the eldest of whom was Egerton Leigh (who married first Lady Elizabeth Gore White; who died 1880) and great-grandfather of the Conservative politician Sir Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough (since 1983).” So it would seem logical that PWB is also related to the current Sir Edward.