[joeysteele]

Shows how wrong the polling is still at present and I believe they are a fair bit wrong in the National polls too.

However, firstly,I am sorry for Zac,yes he is highly privileged but he has been a conviction politician as an MP, apart from as Jack said, his truly awful Mayoral campaign.
He is someone I have a lot of respect for however.

It also has to be remembered, this is not really Labour territory at all, this even in Tony Blair's 2 landslide election wins, went Liberal Democrat and was so until 2010.
The Lib Dems need to take on board, a good amount of likely Labour voters voted for them here and and respect that too.

They, the Lib Dems, made this by election really more about the EU and they have come through.
If they can now build on this and eat their way again into the Southern bastion of seats that are held by Conservatives in the South again,thereby breaking the Conservative monopoly of the area as an almost one party state area now.
Then that will make for some interesting and much better politics in the future

This result effectively takes Theresa May's, on paper, overall majority down to 10 now,if she had to tread carefully before, she has to even more now after this.

I personally thought the Lib Dems had a chance to do really well but didn't believe they would or could win it.
So really well done to them, for me, anything that makes political life harder for this hardline rotten govt. is going to be fine by me.