Wordle 1,595 4/6*
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Minute Cryptic - 31 October, 2025
"Stalked in bed, werewolf returned after we drifted off?" (6) (A nice easy one. I voted, at lunchtime, in a local electon, which is essentially local government and applies just to a single 'ward' which is a small part of a town. The St John's Ward of Tunbridge Wells has a population of about 7.5k, in a town with a population of about 55k, in a borough, a larger geographic area, with a population of about 115k. In this small ward 4159 People are registered to vote. Which - doing some back of the envelope maths - is most of the adult population. 28.4% of eligible voters voted. The three to watch, in my opinion, were The Liberal Democrats, The Green Party, and, the relatively new party which is associated with the flags on lamposts, not so much the Bhutan and Welsh ones, Reform. Labour didn't stand in this ward. It's a solidly Lib Dem ward and I think they submitted their papers late or made a clerical error. The Lib Dems got 53%, Reform 15% and the Green Party 14%. I voted Lib Dem. Not because I particularly agree with them but tactically because my experience of dealing with immigrants and refugees have been largely positive and maybe that's a privileged position inasmuch as I'm not dealing with people smugglers, next to a hotel or house with large numbers of men who are unable to work, with very little cash, because, almost by design or dysfunction it takes a great deal of time to process their claims. The overwhelming majority of immigrants are here legally and my experiences of them, and the few I've met who have claimed asylum, have been totally positive. From the young Indian doctors helping to deal with my, moribund, dad, to the man running the store in the latterly decaying former chemists, to the nice lady in the charity shop, and relatives. That's not to say I think any large group of people are any better than any other large group of people. There's almost definitely going to be bad people and clusters of them among any suffiently large group of people. I have no blinkers and know people. So I thought Reform, with the immigration Leitmotif, we're going to increase their vote but actually it went down. They are clearly better organised - there was a nice older lady from Reform outside the vote collecting voter numbers, which the Lib Dems were doing too, to see who turned up. The turnout was low. Last general election, where an MP was elected, in Tunbridge Wells overalll turnout was 69% and in this ward, if I remember correctly, about 76%. I don't think this is at all indicative of national trends and I thought it would be. I like the Greens but it's a bit Nigel Thunberg.)
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