Election Over!

It's 5 days after the event - I'm still tired and we still don't know who's going to run (or ruin!) the country! But after the polls were supporting the Tories I'm just grateful that they haven't got an outright majority. And even more grateful that we held onto the three seats here so it's still red all across the City & County, I'm pleased to say.

But oh so close here in Swansea West! The Liberal Democrats ran a dirty & personalised campaign - not just negative spin against our candidate but a lot statements were at best misleading and at worst lies. Not surprisingly some of it stuck, and the majority was reduced to about 500 so we are going to need to do a lot more work to get out of the danger zone next time, which could of course be later this year!!

For the first time in years I didn't go to the count - a bit strange as I have always been in the building even if not eligible to go into the counting hall itself. Instead we ended up in a pub down on the Marina - drinking, eating, watching & worrying all night & on til early morning. For some reason when our result was announced it wasn't shown on TV, just a banner going across the screen. I didn't believe it at first, and funnily enough as I learnt afterwards nor did the Lib Dem candidate who apparently turned a shade of green, through the shock of losing!

So we live to fight another day, and we'll just have to wait and see what tomorrow brings - literally!

Les