#westputney contained and contains an area among the 30% most deprived in #England . #eastputney did not and does not. So if anything class would have operated in exactly the opposite way to what they suggest. Arguably there were three major offsets - #labour had a much higher contact rate among voters in #westputney , #labour at least matched the #conservatives with regard to voting by post and there was a major #getoutthevote operation on polling day itself.

A classic example of this was the difference between two adjacent wards - #eastputney and #westputney - separated from each other by a road called #putneyhill . There was a difference of nearly 10% in voter turnover between the two in May 2022. The ward with the higher turnout - #westputney - had a paper thin margin for #labour over the #conservatives - as measured by the average vote per candidate in a three member ward. The ward with the lower turnout had a modest margin the other way.

#Putney was called Putelei or Putenhie in the Domesday Book (1086). The word comes from the Old English personal name “Putta” and “hȳth” meaning “landing place” or “quay”. Don’t feel #EastPutney or #PutneyBridge need further explaining 🤣