Bart Ricketts

I would like to thank every one for their kind messages and calls, I enjoyed the battle and I will survie to politically fight again :)

and at least  we still ontrol Kingston ! And my original ward Grove has a increased Majority.

Lib Dems retain Kingston Council in dramatic election night

Liberal Democrats today retained control of Kingston Council in an election that saw them increase their majority and wipe Labour off the borough's electoral map.

After a seven hour count, a surprise victory in the former Conservative heartlands of Surbiton Hill took the party over the all-important 24 seat figure.

In total, the Lib Dems won 27 seats, up two, the Tories remained on 21 seats, while Labour lost the two seats it won in 2006, ending the 38-year council career of Councillor Steve Mama.

However, the loss of Surbiton Hill, including campaign manager Nick Kilby and veteran councillor Paul Johnston, masked a strengthening of the Tory presence in Maldens and Coombe and their first seat in the Lib Dem bastion in the south of the borough.

Lib Dem casualties included two young former deputy mayors, Bart Ricketts and Rohan Yoganathan.

Conservatives, who had campaigned on a pledge to freeze council tax for two years, attributed their defeat to the popularity of Kingston and Surbiton MP Edward Davey, who was re-elected with a strong majority on Thursday.

The simultaneous parliamentary and local elections saw turnout rise from less than 40 per cent in some wards last time to between 61 and 76 per cent this year.

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Christmas Card Caption Competition .........?  

£1 or more to  enter....... pledge to raise money for the  Mayors  Charity ............? Best one Wins tea in the Mayor's Parlour, of even 2 tickets to Kingston Theater now its open  !  Answers via comment box below, or email  bart@bartricketts.co.uk . To reduce my own Eco Footprint,  I have deiced to reduce the number of Christmas Card's I send this year,by producing this  online Card. Remember to recycle and reuse your Christmas cards back into some thing useful for next year!

*Have a Green Christmas*  

I attended an emotional service in the All Saints Church, it brought back memory's of family I had lost through Cancer. Marie Curie do amazing supportive work in helping people with terminal illness.   The  Marie Curie sponsored Tree in the Market place, with then switched on by Amanda Burton, who I was very pleased to meet in support of this charity.

  Amanda thought I was quite tall to be a Deputy  Mayor, and I should be an actor instead.......