Results(!)

by Prue Bray on 10 June, 2009

….. in two ways

First, literally.  We had a by-election on the Borough Council in one of the Conservatives’ safest seats on 4th June.  Yes of course they won.  But we came second, doubling our share of the vote (from 13% to 26%) and more than doubling the number of votes we got (302 to 711).  Went as well as we could have possibly expected.   And at the same time, the Woodley team took a seat on the town council from the Conservatives – by 90 votes, too, so not even close.  Excellent!  

Second, a group of residents had asked for my help in persuading someone to cut down a couple of leylandii trees that had got excessively tall.  So I wrote him as nice a letter as I could a couple of weeks ago.  And yesterday he cut them down!  Amazing!    

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  1. A former Lib Dem says:

    Lol. Have you actually looked at the election results? The Euro results were absolutely terrible for you. Anything else is just pure spin. Lib Dems winning here… lol.

  2. pruebray says:

    Ho, hum “A former Lib Dem” -whoever that might be- clearly hasn’t compared the Euro results this time to last time: same number of MEPs, whether you look at the whole country or the South East. Would have preferred to have done better, but all things considered, not a catastrophe. Unlike, for example, the Labour party.

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