Boris-stopping time runs out
The election’s over. The polls have closed.
No-one really knows who’s won.
The count starts at 8.30am tomorrow, at three big sites across London.
Unfortunately, with deeply frustrating timing, I have to go on a work trip tomorrow so will be offline and quite possibly out of contact for most of the day, from early in the morning ’til late in the evening.
However, the Stop Boris blog will bring you coverage of any news and results as anything breaks.
I’ll be handing over for most of the day to Mrs. Stop Boris. She hasn’t posted on here before, but you’ll know her research skills, her programming skills, her backing vocals and her hesitant voting hand quite well if you’ve been paying attention!
I’ll be back on here myself either last thing tomorrow or possibly not until Saturday for some final thoughts and reflections on the result and its implications. At the moment, I’m not resigned to having failed to stop Boris, nor am I satisfied we have done so: I simply don’t know, which is just worrying.
Thanks for all your efforts today, Boris-stoppers. Tomorrow, we’ll find out whether we’ve succeeded.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10.05
Everyone is saying Boris has won. The Conservative Party are saying it, the Labour Party are saying it, the Lib-Dems are saying it. We tried, and it was a valiant effort, but it looks like London has fallen.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11.42
Hamish: I agree, it’s not looking good, but I’m not going to follow Conservative Home in ‘calling’ it one way or the other until the results are in. I’ll be doing a post shortly rounding up post-ballot comment and speculation from the media and parties.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11.43
Yes I’ve also read “all sides” are saying Boris has won. It is so disappointing. If this is true, well I’m trying to look on the bright side with the following points:
A) - MOST IMPORTANT! - but petty - if it all goes wrong - we get to say “I told you so”!
B) - If it doesn’t all go wrong, we say “Well we said Boris was a high risk gamble, I guess it did pay off this time…”
C) - Next time there’s a tube strike we go picket City Hall asking where our no strike deal went (the most ridiculous of all of Boris’s “policies”), and generally get to be really vocal when things don’t really change for the better.
D) - If it comes out that the whole Lee Jasper thing really is actually quite bad, we say, maybe we got the better of two evils in the end…
E) - (taken from a comment on Charlie Brooker’s column) If the tories make a mess of London, when it’s GE time will the population really trust them to run the country again? (probably looking on the bright side here, Labour seem to be in a lot of trouble at the moment)
And above all, I’ m just glad the whole thing is nearly over, because without looking at this website every day, I’m far less likely to have rude Boris-dreams any more (I had another one last night, dear god…)
I really think someone should set up a “Boris-watch” website, to keep track of how he is delivering on all these promises he’s made. Though I may not look at it, due to the reason above…!
May 2nd, 2008 at 12.01
Boris in the lead on first preferences after 10% of votes counted.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12.28
One of the bookies is already paying out on a Boris win. It doesn’t look good guys.