{"id":77889,"date":"2012-05-03T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=77889"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:15:34","slug":"following-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=77889","title":{"rendered":"Following the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day is finally here when London goes to the polls. It feels like it&#8217;s been a long time coming and although it&#8217;s a hard fought business it likely that we&#8217;ll see a very similar set of politicians at City Hall come Monday&#8230; unless you lot choose otherwise that is.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be following the election here, and in particular we&#8217;ll be analysing the results tomorrow, when they come out (which could be late) and over the weekend as we try to figure out exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d welcome contributions on the results taking apart the unusual, celebrating the glorious or explaining the humiliations.<\/p>\n<p>For more minute to minute tweeting follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LondonSmoke\">@londonsmoke<\/a> and our editors twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Jim_Jepps\">@jim_jepps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Razmazz\">@razmazz<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/eastlondonlines\">@eastlondonlines<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DaveHill\">@davehill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MayorWatch\">@mayorwatch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BorisWatch\">@boriswatch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sackboris2012\">@sackboris2012<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RichardOsley\">@richardosley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/darryl1974\">@darryl1974<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AdamBienkov\">@adambienkov<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; feel free to suggest others we may have missed and we&#8217;ll add them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To contact Big Smoke about contributions, links you think we should include or just to generally praise us email <a href=\"mailto:editorial@bigsmoke.org.uk\">editorial@bigsmoke.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day is finally here when London goes to the polls. 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