THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

First of all, thanks to everyone who took part yesterday in the first ever direct election for a mayor of Copeland, and an especial thanks to those who voted for me.

The election for MP for Copeland was very close indeed - the Labour majority fell from just under 4,000 when I last stood five years ago to about two and a half thousand.

It was obvious at the verification last night of the four elections which took place in Copeland yesterday that each of the three candidates to be the first directly elected mayor of Copeland has substantial support. I really don't know how this is going to go, and could come anywhere from third place to winning.

After about an hour's sleep following the parliamentary result I shall be going down to the mayoral count shortly: it starts at 10am.

Comments

Jim said…
That's an interesting one and I have not heard the results of it yet. Its one I deliberately avoided trying to call in advance.

I stuck to national predictions, just by reading people as best i could, and made 4 predictions in the comments to this blog.

1, small cons majority overall
2, snp to storm scotland
3, Farage not to be an MP
4, carswell to hold his his seat

Not bad going really. if only a prevous pm/chancellor had paid more attention to that which i was trying to tell him at the time.....................

4:39 pm
Jim said…
hmmm, got bored waiting but glad to see it was Mike, not the labour candidate.

You did put up a good fight though, and that is to be commended.

on the bigger picture, Copeland council need some outside guidance, one that is not of the Labour party, so in that sense this election was a win.

i know thats not much to you right now, but at least it never fell to lacour. I think your electioneering helped that, take that to heart.
6:38 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Obviously the BBC should be employing you rather than most of their expert pollsters and commentators: you did indeed say all those things and you were right when many other people were way out.
11:21 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
I'm not at all upset with the Mayoral result.

I polled more than 9,500 votes and was only a little more than 300 votes from making it into the final round, when it might have been Mike's transfers helping me to beat Labour instead of the other way round.

Either way we stopped the Labour juggernaut in its' tracks in Copeland, and as far as I'm concerned that is a massive success.
11:24 pm
Jim said…
In the infamous words of Sean Connery "schpeldid"
7:09 pm
Jim said…
since when were the BBC expert pollsters, the bbc are a company where Stephanie Flanders was an "expert economist" for goodness sake.

7:30 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Well, you are entitled to have some fun at their expense when you were right when they were wrong.

So indeed was nearly everyone else. Dan Hodges has been saying for five years that Cameron would win and so have a very small number of other people - but I think we have just had a good demonstration of how "groupthink" can lead people astray.
5:43 pm
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