only have benefited your party - if we, the electors, were that stupid..." "Well, congratulations to George Ferguson. I assume that as he was only voted in by 11.55% of the electorate, the usual Tories will come out to say that the he does not have a proper mandate and call for the poll to be declared invalid. In the July 2012 PCS ballot on industrial action, 20 per cent of PCS members voted and of those 57 per cent voted to for the strike (i.e. 11 per cent of the electorate). Priti Patel, Tory MP, said: "Any ballot in which fewer than half of those eligible to vote do so should be ruled invalid." Damien Green, Tory MP, said: "With only around one in 10 voting for industrial action, they have no authority to call their members out on strike." Dominic Raab, Tory MP, said: "It can't be right that union bosses can paralyse vital infrastructure and humiliate the nation on a malicious whim, when just 11 per cent of their members support strike action."" "@Knowlerrr I am afraid I must dsagree, Jon Rogers has often exhibited his arrogance AND ignorance, in public, he has frequently been found to be downright rude to those he perceives as not furthering his political career. I think Fergusson will prove the best f the bunch, though I should have preferred Daniella Radice because her policies would have meant many, real jobs in Bristol to make an environmentally as well as economically sustainable