Guildford Lib Dems decapitated - bring out the golden parachute

Well the Guildford election results are now in and the big story of the night is the defeat of Vivienne Johnson (Lib Dem) by a University of Surrey politics student, Matt Furniss, who was elected for the Conservatives. There is an excellent article on the BBC website.

The problem Guildford Lib Dems now face is that they have lost almost all of their half effective Councillors. Whilst Fiona White (their leader for now) remains and 3 jobs Sarah Di Caprio (PPC for SW Surrey, Surrey County Councillor and now Borough Councillor) was newly elected, it is a fairly well known fact that Cllr Johnson used to pull many of the strings of the Lib Dems at Guildford Borough Council.

The question now is can they do without her? Perhaps we might soon see one of their lesser, but elected, figures step aside to allow Mrs Johnson to be parachuted in to a safe Lib Dem seat.