A splendid day for Derek Giles and the Liberal Democrats as we soundly beat the Tories in Eaton Socon and got Derek elected. Apart from visiting Mum in the afternoon, I was there all day and evening organising the election victory. It was sweet revenge for the acrimonious behaviour of Tory Bill Longford trying to suppress my issues at the Southern Area District Councillors today.
This was election day for Derek Giles in Eaton Socon. I rose early and was at their family house in Stratford Place by 7am, ready to deliver the ‘please vote today’ leaflets to known and probable supporters. I had probably been given one of the most difficult rounds to do and was therefore the last back. We had started ‘telling’ by this time and had to take names and addresses as they had issued no polling cards and so no electoral numbers were available. I organise the committee room, crossing off the electors as they voted, dispatching cars to give lifts and ‘knockers up’ to get our known supporters out to vote. Sandy and Derek Giles had laid on food and I had my lunch there.
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This afternoon, I drove home to collect Di and then we went to visit Mum. She seems okay and we had lots of things to progress before the funeral. I went back afterwards to help with the election and then, at 6:15pm, came home to shave change and prepare for my meeting. I had a meeting of the Southern Area District Councillors and all three items on the agenda were of my creation. A poorish meeting with Bill Longford taking the chair but I still managed to get some important things discussed despite his negative use of technicalities to try to stop me speaking. On to the count of the ballot papers at the Jubilee Hall and there to mastermind a true comeuppance for Bill Longford. His Tory candidate polled only 99 votes against Derek’s 500 odd! We had a drink afterwards and then I printed up some slips and we went out until midnight pasting them onto our poster boards.