No not Rudi Giuliani, Rudi Vis, MP for Finchley and Golders Green. Unlike his neighbour in Hendon, who is a true and steadfast servant of all his constituents, Mr Vis, has had no time for a large part of his constituency (and that’s putting it politely).
Whilst it will make it that much easier for the Conservatives to win over the good people to vote for us, now that Labour have lost the incumbency factor. Don’t automatically expect a bigger swing than what we achieve nationally.
I felt a tinge of arrogance that prevailed party wide when I joined, that people would just swing back to us, which has now gone, except in a few arrogant Associations. There are a number of hard working Conservatives, servants of the people in F&GG that do and have done a tremendous amount of work over the decades, and that led then to be a little complacent. Whilst F&GG has 17+% of Jews, the highest in the Country, Constituencies are won with 40+%, and here we will probably 45%+, so we must unite all segments of the community.
Maybe because it was never a marginal before, they did not understand how to run a proper GOTV in Golders Green which led to our defeat twice more than it should have. I now understand that things are changing, new people have brought with a new attitude, and I truly wish them well and look forward to three good Conservative MP’s representing Barnet soon (though regardless of the UNS the Jury is still out on Hendon).