Peter Kent-Baguley

May Day Greetings

Fraternal greetings to all, and yes, that's it now, the fruits of our collective City-wide electioneering are captured in the ballot boxes. We shall have to wait until late tomorrow morning to see the first of the results from the 20 wards across the City. Because of the huge number of postal votes now and the time consuming process to verify them all, the Friday morning count initiated last year was reluctantly agree by Group leaders again this year. The buzz, adrenlin and excitement of the late night count is lost and certainly last year's Friday count was a very low energy affair. However, with the prospect of widespread Labour losses for the 11 Labour councillors seeking re-election not to mention the other Labour candidates, there will undoubtedly be a mounting tension across the Town Hall tomorrow morning.

For an on-line minute by minute results service turn to: www.stoke.gov.uk/elections