Thank you

Thank you for everyone who voted for me at this election. I am pleased with my solid result as a debutant independent candidate.

I wish to build upon this experience and encourage any constituents still interested in my policies and causes to please contact me using the form on the 'Contact' page this website.

And the results are in!

• Joshua Reynolds (Liberal Democrats) - 21,895 (43.5%)
• Tania Mathias (Conservative) - 18,932 (37.6%)
• Jo Smith (Labour) - 5,766 (1.5%)
• Andrew Cooney (Green Party) - 1,996 (4.0%)
• George Wright (Independent) - 791 (1.6%)
• Timothy Burt (Social Democratic Party) - 518 (1.0%)
• Qazi Yasir Irshad (Independent) - 431 (0.9%)

Congratulations to Josh Reynolds on his victory in the constituency of Maidenhead. It has been a very good night for the Liberal Democrats.

Maidonians have shown they are unhappy to continue with the same politics and have demanded a change.

Josh will have his work cut out to deliver on constituents' priorities: on healthcare and on the cost of living.

Meanwhile, I hope Josh has taken note of the number of votes cast for my platform of electoral reform, and the significant number of spoilt ballots marked "REFORM." The country is crying out for it, and I hope he will do his best to remind this new Labour supermajority that it has been voted in on the lowest popular vote of any government in history and I hope he will use his platform to advocate for a fairer electoral system in the future.

A vote for George Wright was and is a vote for reform, for St Mark's Hospital, for green spaces and for public transport provision - and I intend to lobby for these priorities on the support my voters have given me even though I have not today been elected.

To each and every one of you who voted for me: thank you for your support. 1.6% is an impressive result for a new independent candidate and will remind our new MP that he is being lent this vote through tactical voting after many years of incompetent Tory Council leadership and national government - and that for many locals, it is respect for their local concerns which comes first.

I wish Josh Reynolds the best of luck in his new role.

On Maidenhead's Great Park

The golf course site is public open space as shown in both the Borough Local Plan and the Maidenhead Advertiser in 1953. Unless evidence is produced to show that the requirement of two weeks' publication of plans in a local newspaper and consideration of objections were satisfied, we must consider the golf course site to be public open space still.

Maidenhead Great Park is not just a proposal but a reality; we must fight to protect it - and if the current Council doesn't have the political willpower or financial/human resources, then I will raise the matter in Parliament to the relevant Secretary.

View the Maidenhead hustings

A member of a local politics Facebook group has helpfully posted a full video of the hustings online. See them here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c7cf5TBQ8A

Wessex Regionalism near Wessex Way

I was gladly joined on the campaign trail today by David Robins from the Wessex Regionalist Party. We’ve been leafleting around Wessex Way and other roads named after the Heptarchy.

As part of the Wessex region, Maidenhead will be able to ally itself with other Western areas, putting environmental and green concerns at the forefront and preserving our great Western local character even as we have become more connected, by transport, to London.

https://www.wessexregionalists.info/

Hustings video link

Visit this site to request the YouTube link to Maidenhead hustings:

https://methodistmaidenhead.churchsuite.com/events/fbmxuy5l

Meet-and-greet

Silly me forgot to advertise this event on all my platforms!

I am hosting a meet-and-greet event at Michele’s Café, Cookham, between 11am and 4pm today!