We ran to Runcorn for the Thursday 1st May by-election. The forerunners were Nick the Incredible Flying Brick and Nick the Runcorn Rodent, who met there a month earlier to collect the ten signatures and deliver the papers.
I campaigned for the ten days leading up to the election and the Wetherspoons Ferryboat Inn became my constituency HQ, with the kind permission of Sir Tim Martin.
I met a lot of very nice people and made many friends. I was joined on the count night by the two Nicks, RU Seerius, Lady Hell’n Bak, The Psyco-billy Tractor from Crewe, Red Rocket Ron from Liverpool, Sir Archie & Gilly Stanton from Yorkshire, also Lawd Lawson and O.B. Joyful from Hampshire.
It was a long night, first the main count, and then a recount. Labour could have called another, but they gave in. So as we all know The Reform party with Nigel Farage won but not without our help! Our votes were from at least ten former Labour voters, if we were not there Labour would have got back in!
128 people wanted us to represent them in Parliament, I am proud of that.
We didn’t come last, beating four other party’s including the SDP and Catherine Blaiklock who was a big noise with UKIP and the Brexit Party but now standing for the English Democrat party.
Good fun was had by all, here’s to the next one, whenever wherever, we shall be there!
Howling ‘Laud’ Hope