Well, all the votes are now cast and we await the results. Don't forget we have 2 results here in Kirkby and Liverpool areas, the Council elections and the European Elections. Local election results will now be shown live on Knowsley Councils website so we may have all the results perhaps early or late evening, which could mean a late night for candidates. The European election results are not expected until late on Sunday 13 June.

Live Election Web-Cast/Video Feed

Knowsley Local Council results, as stated, will be published 'live' on there website. It's advertised as a web-cast but no details of what this will entail have so far been put up - generally a web-cast is video feed, albeit a small screen, of some event. This actually sounds a good idea and who-ever is behind it has done well. That's if it works - these things can have gremlins but lets keep our fingers crossed that it all works.

Live election night web-cast - click here!

Electoral fraud

The elections have been blighted by electoral fraud, this could still see some results being possibly subject to investigation, and we've already seen a voting riot in Birmingham after Asians, who have formed there own political party, and New Labourites decided to fight each other, throwing punches in the street whilst a mob surrounded a postman carrying election papers. The election, in some parts, has been likened to an event out of the third world with bartering for votes, threats and possible widespread fraud as being investigated by the police. Any candidate who loses by a few dozen votes is going to be wondering has he or she been victim of New Labours massive cock up regarding our elections. We must never again let postal voting or new labours desired computerised systems ever to be used in the UK. The ballot box, the private booth with ONE person allowed, is the only way to ensure electoral fraud is NEVER again allowed to blight our political arenas. When votes are cast in Kirkby, the police guard them whilst en route to the counting. You'd have more luck robbing a bank than ever getting away with a ballot box. Stealing a vote in 2004 could mean simply slipping your hand through someone's letter box, or taking your mates voting slips, your families, or your neighbours.

Kirkby Times has long reported on many serious local issues which new labour had a chance to rectify. Instead, the council chose to see this website as irrelevant, or biased. They laughed at it - but come tomorrow night, they may well be laughing on the other side of their faces, as the old saying goes. What happens here is the No 1 concern of this website - the results tomorrow matter to everyone. Anything could happen but we could see some shocking results tomorrow, in Kirkby and across the UK.

All Kirkby Times will say at this point is good luck to any candidate who genuinely wants to make a difference and not just be another malingerer in the Council Chambers dancing a jig for Keight (if he makes it) and Ronnie Roundabout. Kirkby Labourites have had a long long time to put things right. Sometimes loyalty to a party works, when the party is in the ascendancy that is, but new labours star is waning, the working class themselves can no longer be relied upon to turn out and dutifully vote labour. Will those election envelopes have been sealed with a new labour kiss? Or will we have chosen to send out a resounding message that they are not getting things right?

All will soon be revealed!