The thing about Jackie Doyle-Price is that she never had a bad word, arrogant bone or untoward moment in her whole campaign. Jackie wasn't necessarily a change candidate but more of a respect candidate and now MP. She will wear that badge with pride and do her utmost to represent her people.
The Monitoring Officer in Thurrock has called for a full recount as YourThurrock understands that the Tories at the end of the first count have a slim majority of 45
This could be a long night. Correction: it is already a long night. All the candidates are here, the counting has begun. Funnily enough, both Lab and Cons are hardly giving out positive signals.
YourThurrock will be up all night covering both counts.
The return/result for South Basildon and East Thurrock should be made at 1am while Thurrock is expected at 3am.
After all, politics will affect me directly: everything from public sector cuts to economic recovery. I should feel privileged to finally have a say in that.
WITH more people than ever before yet to make their mind up, they should come along to St Clere's school in Stanford to see some direct political opinions.
