Obama Watchers
26 images Created 6 Nov 2008
The Barack Obama election saw London's Democrat expatriate community celebrate with private parties across the capital.
These pictures were taken at Yates's bar in Leicester Square where CNN hosted a £35 a head bi-partisan get-together, Planet Hollywood where a TV screen showed non-stop live coverage and at The Hoop and Toy pub in London's South Kensington, Obama groupies watched each and every Electoral college vote come in before John McCain concede to an exhausted and emotional crowd.
Later that day, on the BBC lunchtime news, cinema TV screens in the John Lewis department store displayed Obama as their top story, replaying the Chicago rally highlights and the streets of London showed the now famous family in its newspaper.
And eventually, on inauguration day itself, London celebrated all over again when Democrats abroad partied in Texmex style and at a formal ball.
(For more information about the Obama party contact organiser Carole Bell on +44 7786 60 50 50).
These pictures were taken at Yates's bar in Leicester Square where CNN hosted a £35 a head bi-partisan get-together, Planet Hollywood where a TV screen showed non-stop live coverage and at The Hoop and Toy pub in London's South Kensington, Obama groupies watched each and every Electoral college vote come in before John McCain concede to an exhausted and emotional crowd.
Later that day, on the BBC lunchtime news, cinema TV screens in the John Lewis department store displayed Obama as their top story, replaying the Chicago rally highlights and the streets of London showed the now famous family in its newspaper.
And eventually, on inauguration day itself, London celebrated all over again when Democrats abroad partied in Texmex style and at a formal ball.
(For more information about the Obama party contact organiser Carole Bell on +44 7786 60 50 50).
