Congratulations to Dominic McCavish, now the first Liberal Democrat elected to Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council.
Liberal Democrat team in Crewe seems hopeful that there will be one or more Liberal Democrat gains from Labour in the elections in the Crewe & Nantwich constituency. Update: confirmed.
A cheery half-wave to the BBC: gosh, your round-up on News 24 has suddenly found a lot more good news about the Liberal Democrast to report!
Earth calling BBC, Earth calling BBC: Liberal Democrats have gained control of Burnley and Sheffield, but there’s no mention in your regular rolling news round-up, which is still stuck on using news from yesterday.
South Lakeland: Liberal Democrats making gains from the Tories. Look set to keep overall control too.
Labour dissent: In an interview with BBC News 24, Labour MP Ian Gibson has given Gordon Brown six months to change and improve. Tick tock, tick tock.
BBC blunder 2: Liberal Democrats have made a net gain of three seats in Wrexham, but BBC reporting it wrongly as a loss of two.
BBC blunder: News 24 has just been reporting how the big shock in Northumberland is that Labour and Tories have the same number of councillors. But they didn’t mention that Liberal Democrats gained a dozen seats, overtaking both of them.
Four Labour loses in Blackburn where Jack Straw is MP.
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Any comment on the following thought…where the Liberal Democrat’s have a strong activist base and a established presence they are performing well…where they dont have any of that the performance isnt so hot…??
There were no results announced over the mobile phone network today. Was that intentional? Pity, because it was a great service, and worked very well.
David – you must have reminded someone because I just received my first text update of the day!
Glad to hear that, Ross, but i haven’t heard a thing yet! You must be on a more prestigious network or something.
(Maybe I have turned it off by mistake??)
David: we advertised (with a text) that we were running a special election results text message service so as not to drown people in too much news if they didn’t want it. Also has been round-up reminder today pointing people at the details on the party website.
Twitter/SMS/Mobiles:
There’s the standard LibDem feed which has just had one text.
I believe there’s another one with more results (I got a text about it). I’m not following that one though (didn’t want to get woken up in the small hours 😉 )
Darrell: Why should that surprise anyone? What it looks like to me is support for Lib Dem run councils and Lib Dem councillors in places that actually have them, but the loss of a random spray of Iraq-protest-votes from 2004, which never won us much in the first place. I don’t see any reason to be terribly upset about it.
It also seems self evident to me that, when we face a media who (broadly) wish we would go away and stop making things complicated, we would do well in areas where we have an activist presence to put across our message directly.
Andy…
I didnt say it should surprise anybody, I was merely putting it as a proposition. I think you are broadly right…those votes have returned from whence they came…the question then becomes how we establish ourselves in areas where there isnt that base surely…
BBC website is reporting that the Lib Dems have held South Lakeland with an increased majority (taking two seats off the Tories and one off Labour and the Greens).
The BBC is listing Liverpool as having been lost by the party (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7372860.stm). I have used the relevant form to ask them to correct this mistake. I would encourage others to do the same: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3950000/newsid_3955200/3955259.stm
From the Evening Standard website:
Boris ‘is new London Mayor’, says Paddick
Boris Johnson is the new Mayor of London, his Liberal Democrat rival Brian Paddick conceded tonight.
The Conservative MP scored a stunning election victory to end Ken Livingstone’s eight-year reign at City Hall and round off a disastrous 24 hours for the Labour Party.
After a nailbiting count, Mr Johnson was so far ahead on first-preference votes that he could not be caught by Mr Livingstone even after second preferences were taken into account.
Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick was the first to concede defeat: “I think Boris Johnson didn’t really want the job. Now that he has got it, that might make him a better mayor.”
Mr Johnson, 43, was endorsed by the Evening Standard this week and his triumph follows our exposés of the Mayor’s office. Mr Livingstone’s aide Lee Jasper was forced to quit after reporter Andrew Gilligan revealed Mr Jasper’s links to a group receiving taxpayers’ cash. The police were also called in after we revealed allegations of irregularities in millions of pounds of London Development Agency grants.
Labour officials privately conceded Mr Johnson had almost certainly succeeded in ousting Ken Livingstone.
It came on a nightmare day for the Prime Minister when Labour crashed to its worst town hall results for 40 years with nearly 300 council seats wiped out. David Cameron surged to an election-winning level of 44 per cent.
A senior Labour official said this afternoon: “We are not going to kid ourselves now – we think Boris Johnson has won.”
The Prime Minister said he had called Mr Livingstone to thank him for all he had done for the capital. Bookmakers began paying out on £100,000 worth of bets on a Boris victory.
Nice to see a congratulations for getting a seat in Barrow although the true reason is our PPC Bary Rabbone and his ground laying work.
Have to say not one of my canvassing helpers was a Lib Dem (except Barry). It seems for Lib Dems up here a bird in the hand was more important. Not one offer of help from the party, very sad.
Dom