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May
1st 2008: Labours’ Election Meltdown! A
diary of the day by Mike Weatherley Rising
at 6am, my first stop of the day was to: Crawley
and the Langley Green Ward to do some ‘telling’, followed by
delivering leaflets in Three Bridges Ward and a stop off at Southgate
Ward. Crawley gained 4 new seats and now has 26 compared to Labour's 9 and
Lib Dems 2. When I got elected in 2005 in Crawley we narrowly took control
by a majority of just 1 after 35 years of Labour administration - a
wonderful turn around and congratulations to Bob Lanzer and his very hard
working team. Then
off to London and, more specifically, Bromley
to campaign with Bob Neill MP to get Boris and local London Assembly
candidate James Cleverly elected, knocking up as many houses as we could
before the heavens opened and the thunder storms forced us back inside.
The result was a win for Boris Johnson as London Mayor and a 75,237
majority for James – the highest of any London Ward. And
then to round off the day, a spell of knocking up to get voters out in Worthing,
in Gaisford Ward. Delighted to report a 75 vote win for Conservative Ann Barrow
(Conservatives 1026, Lib Dems 951, Labour 137).
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