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Conservative Sir Anthony Grant easily won our constituency election with a 57% majority and after a couple of hours of financial paperwork, we started our boating holiday. We visited Mum on the way and found her managing with help from her friends. Some local walks after settling in on The Paxton princess on a chilly and clear evening.
The bad news of last night was confirmed this morning. Overnight predictions of a Tory majority of 13 to 15 seats had grown to 19 and ended up at about 20 in the end. Labour had failed to gain enough seats, the SDP lost all three seats and the Liberal Democrats won some but lost more as the Scottish Nationalists were reduced to 3 seats in all. The Tories actually gained seats in Scotland which let them off the hook. So there will be no changes and John Major has a working majority for another five years. It seems that the reluctant and disillusioned Tories came out in the end at the fear of a Labour Government and the weather had helped this process.
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I was unusually uninvolved on General Election Day, chatting to the gardener and noting the variety of birds nesting in our gardens. Then lunch at The Beefeater before writing and financial work in the afternoon; preparing for some leaflets for the Local Government election as the General Election in South West Cambridgeshire Anthony Grant Tory stronghold was a waste of time
Following the early-morning mist, another fine day greeted us and, with sunshine on a warm day, a good turnout in the General Election seems assured. It is odd to be at home and laying in on election day and I was soon subjected to a neighbouring visit from somebody who wondered how best they could help. Once up and dressed, I drove the family off to the polling station where Diana, Daniel and I voted, and the girls looked on. Then Diana and Debbie to St Neots, Della home and Daniel off in his own car to visit Angela after which I chatted to the gardener as we are going to be away for a while.
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A flying visit to Norfolk to meet up with the refrigeration engineer but traffic delays and accidents made me late as I was even booked for speeding! My return was even more eventful in which a lorry had jack-knifed crushing the car coming the other way and killing its driver.
The weather had been fine, and the work went well as the refrigerator was fully commissioned and working well. Home late to find Daniel and a couple of his friends watching the TV as news featured the last set of opinion polls wherein the Tories had pulled back a little on Labour who still had the narrowest of leads with the LibDems holding on to their 20% share
I had to return to Horning to meet the refrigeration engineer and had unwisely agreed to him coming at 8.30am. This meant that I was up at 6.00am, intending to leave at 6.30am and was ten minutes late to start with. The first part of the journey went well, however, and I stopped short of Snetterton for a bacon roll and tea for breakfast at the roadside kiosk. This made me a bit late and then, when a traffic accident led to further delays, I was in trouble. I tried to get out of it by speeding but was then stopped on the outskirts of Norwich and booked by a police car for speeding at 90mph in a 60mph dual carriageway section! I eventually arrived a half hour late and rather agitated.
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A meeting with the Ancient Order of Foresters, as Diana and the girls det off for Cambridge and then involved with local politics with John Brown this afternoon and the Village Hall AGM in the evening, introducing my replacement LibDem candidate John Brown.
Diana took the girls to Cambridge to meet their Grandma and Grandad this morning and Diana was rather hoping that Daniel and I would do the same; but we had an appointment with the representative of the Ancient Order of Foresters. We heard all about the order and then briefed him about our affairs before signing up as members of the Garibaldi Court and making out tax-exempt investments. Daniel then off to Cambridge to see his friend Gary and I settled down to some paperwork and to make my own lunch of smoked salmon salad. I had put a few pounds weight back on these last few days, which is a pity.
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