I’ve posted over at Brent East Campaigning about yesterday, the election count and the result - take a peek. Looks like the BELDs need to get their website updated… no mention yet of Sarahs HOLD of Brent East. From the Lib Dem website election news ticker: 04.12 GAIN - Sarah Teather wins the Brent East seat she won at a by-election (technically a gain measured from 2001) with a swing of 30% and a majority of 2,700...
I’ve woken up and eaten - needed to do that before posting anything. NK and I left the count after Sarah Teather had been returned as the MP for Brent East, but not before posting to sarah teather is my MP. I’ve still got the ‘wild eyes’ I had yesterday, although that’s now from lack of sleep. This politics junkie had quite an Election Day. As I posted yesterday, I’d been out and about in Mapesbury and Willesden with June Thomas from Slate Magazine....
I’m reminded of the Banksy piece in Barcelona Zoo. Tally mark after tally mark after tally mark. From what I’m seeing as I tally out the ballots as they come out of the box for the collate before the count, it really is neck and neck. For every one vote the Greens receive, the Conservatives are getting seven, the Liberal Democrats 45 and Labour 47 = 100 votes. Thats my personal tally count taken from a few different wards and averaged....
Well, I didn’t expect that I’d be at the count for the Brent constituencies General Election ballot. But strange things happen in blogsphere… I’m joined by NK a friend from Goldsmiths. We’re surounded by more rosets than a horse show. It is a three legged…sorry…horse race (sorry Kwasi) after all! Some of the ballot boxes have arrived already but the count isn’t fully underway. Results as and when I get them!...
Out and about in Brent East this morning and all is quiet at Brent East Conservative HQ. My first stop was Sarah Teather HQ at 1 High Road to give my support before going off to meet Sarah at her polling station. Team:Yasmin are at Willesden Green tube, handing out leaflets that look like an inducement to shop at a furniture store (to be scanned later) before going off to vote....