Caron Lindsay

Chesham & Amersham: a Lib Dem WIN we’ll be talking about for years

By | Fri 18th June 2021 - 2:20 am

Sarah Green MP.

That sounds so good.

Who would have thought that we would have turned a a huge Conservative majority and to one of over 8000 for us?

I am sitting here blubbing like anything. My first thought went back to Murray Walker’s comment about having to stop because he had a lump in his throat when Damon Hill won the F1 world championship back in the day.

I am not just ecstatic that we have won the most audacious and spectacular by-election win for generations. I am thrilled to bits that Sarah, who is pretty much where I am on most issues, is going to be a brilliant addition to our parliamentary team.

Here she is, arriving at the count:

Ok, so you want some numbers?

That works out as

Sarah: 21517
Conservative 13489
Green 1480
Labour 622
Reform 414

And her soon to be parliamentary colleagues are pretty happy:

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Sarah is our third by-election winner with that name, after Sarah Olney in Richmond Park in 2016 and Sarah Teather in 2003 iin Brent.

I will remember the moment she was declared an MP. The neighbours’ milk delivery was happening at the time and I was trying to restrain two spaniels who totally objected to the milknan’s presence in our street. I just that they didn’t wake anybody up.

There will be more time to bask in this historic result in the morning, but for now, I’m going to try and sleep.

 

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

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2 Comments

  • Michael 1 18th Jun '21 - 2:38am

    As the Spectator wrote: “The Chesham and Amersham by-election is on Thursday. Thank God itā€™s almost here ā€” hopefully then we can stop hearing any rubbish about how the Lib Dems are set to tear down the Conservativesā€™ ā€˜blue wallā€™ in the home counties. As the campaign has demonstrated, the Lib Dems are miles away from being able to cause such an upset.”

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lib-dems-are-utterly-lost

    or um… perhaps not šŸ™‚ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Galen Milne 18th Jun '21 - 7:41am

    Great win for the Party as a whole. Looks like we persuaded the Labour vote to vote tactically for us and thatā€™s an important consideration in the next GE.

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