The rest of the country
Having made my own celebratory post, my thoughts have turned elsewhere, to the rest of the country.
To be honest, it looks pretty dreadful, and may get worse at 8.30pm when the London vote comes through. (I did my own bit of London GOTV yesterday, calling four members of my family in London to remind them to vote for Ken, but I didn’t realise how bad it was. Living outside London, one gets heartily sick of news for and about London, and we had a council to win here.)
Hopi’s post on this is spot-on, and more nuanced than the spin of the news organisations.
On the bright side, Kerron Cross appears to have held on, beating the BNP by 14 votes in South Oxhey on Three Rivers Council, according to his Facebook status. And my friends in Reading, where I was this time last year, seem to have pulled some last reserves of electoral energy out of the box - Cllr Jon Hartley held on, thank goodness, and they are still the largest group, even if not an overall majority. Pick-ups in Liverpool look good, too, but Cardiff is still Lib Dem.
