Have just cleared away the pizza boxes, beer bottles and crisp packets from an extroadinary night of Political theatre which is a harbinger of things to come locally.
If we translate it locally the Medway Conservatives are now only going one way; down. On the polls last night and swings noted in other unitary authorities we would see the fall of Strood South, Strood North, River, Princes Park, Gillingham South and Watling. We would be poking Strood Rural and Rochester West.
The dithering, incompetent and tired Conservatives were mauled across huge swathes of middle England and most crucially of all in the marginal Parliamentary seats that they are looking to defend in 2015. The Tories made no substantive in roads against the Lib Dems in many seats and in one, to my surprise, Eastleigh, the Lib Dems have trounced the Conservatives.
The most pleasurable defeat was in Southampton. Having campaigned in a number of the marginal wards and hearing the shocking lack of integrity displayed by a Young Conservative Councillor cohort; it is particularly pleasurable to knock out the future for them locally. Royston Smith; the Union basher, was also served notice; a P45.
Today Tories are licking the wounds and are making the classic mistake; Tories are not loosing because of positioning but because of competence. I would be very happy to see the Tories revert back to their perceived (and behind the pretty logo they are still) sneering, backward, frustrated, dated and dogmatic views on society; they will get routed even more. It appears that is what the membership want; so let them fight UKIP whilst Labour takes the centre. This is no 1980s moment; Labour has planted its purple flag on the centre ground boys; and we aint deviating one inch from it.
Labour has more to do however; this was not a 1995 moment and though the Labour flags were waving high over defeated Tory citadels last night; North East Lincolnshire, Great Yarmouth, Harlow, Southampton, Birmingham, Reading, Nuneaton, Cannock Chase, Carlisle, Birmingham, Thurrock, Sefton, Chorley, Plymouth, Norwich, Newport, Dudley, Derby, Wirral and Rochdale this does not mean we can walk into Number 10.
Labour across the country needs to be a campaigning and grass-roots force; some very strong campaigners were elected last night; well trained after 10 years of grassroots change which I believe the Tories have utterly underestimated. Whilst they are comprised of tired Association structures selecting the same old fella's from the old school; Labour are busy creating a more representative democracy.
The Lib Dumbs last night will be in reflective mood; this is the second year of the Labour barrage and they are being knee-capped across whole swathes of middle England. Sometimes pleasure does come before business; and last night the greatest comment in the room was on the utter denial of the Lib Dem Parliamentary Party to see the wood for the trees.
We wait to see the Boris result this afternoon; a man who has planned the destruction of the Hoo Peninsula who will no doubt get the full and fawning support of the Medway Tories; putting community second as usual to the, and words that Tim Montgomerie used, the 'ruthless party machine'
Not so ruthless as incompetent, inept and failing Tim
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