I have never really liked the phrase "you get the government you deserve" it sounds too much like Calvinist predestination.

Personally, I want efficient, fair and transparent government and if I don't think I am getting that then I will do my best to change things.

As for Lewisham voting en masse for Labour I think you must have been looking at different stats to me. On a 37% turnout with the winner getting 51% of the vote it means that less than one in five eligible voters put a cross against Mayor Bullock's name. I haven't done the maths for the local elections but it isn't going to be much different there.

Yes, Labour came first in all but one of the local councillor elections but that was down to the first past the post system. PR would have seen a different and, IMHO, a healthier political mix at local level.

Anyway, it is a poisoned chalice for our local Napoleons. If things haven't improved by the time the next elections come along they will only have themselves to blame.