Comments on: Labour wins again http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:23:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70777 Daniel Fri, 06 May 2005 16:47:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70777 You missed the other big news: that H'Angus the Monkey was re-elected Mayor of Hartlepool in a landslide and got engaged. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/england/4522687.stm You missed the other big news: that H’Angus the Monkey was re-elected Mayor of Hartlepool in a landslide and got engaged.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/england/4522687.stm

]]> By: Mo MacArbie http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70776 Mo MacArbie Fri, 06 May 2005 16:46:13 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70776 Well good, Labor has held off the foul Appeasers! (Just kidding. Does Godwin's Law have a Chamberlain clause yet?) Well good, Labor has held off the foul Appeasers!

(Just kidding. Does Godwin’s Law have a Chamberlain clause yet?)

]]> By: john http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70750 john Fri, 06 May 2005 14:42:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70750 <i>Doesn’t look like any significant gain in popularity for the Tories, and they’re still saddled with a disastrous leadership election system that depends on the votes of blue-rinsed old bigots.</i> Hasn't Howard now said he'll resign as leader after they reform their leadership election policies? Doesn’t look like any significant gain in popularity for the Tories, and they’re still saddled with a disastrous leadership election system that depends on the votes of blue-rinsed old bigots.

Hasn’t Howard now said he’ll resign as leader after they reform their leadership election policies?

]]> By: Delicious pundit http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70749 Delicious pundit Fri, 06 May 2005 14:41:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70749 <i>But you could get all this just by reading the BBC .</i> I know. But it just sounds so sexy when you say it. But you could get all this just by reading the BBC .

I know. But it just sounds so sexy when you say it.

]]> By: James Palmer http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70703 James Palmer Fri, 06 May 2005 08:52:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70703 Doesn't look like any significant gain in popularity for the Tories, and they're still saddled with a disastrous leadership election system that depends on the votes of blue-rinsed old bigots. (God knows what their performance would have been this time if IDS was still in as leader.) I'd say their chances for next time are still weak. I noticed the Labour vote in Brown's own constituency dropped by far, far less than almost everywhere else in Britain ... Nice to see a reduced majority - though still a pretty good one, mind! - for Labour; probably at the level now where a serious backbench rebellion can threaten them, which means they won't be pushing through some of the more appalling anti-civil liberties stuff. Anybody more informed than me know what kind of percentage of Old Labour or Blairites went? Doesn’t look like any significant gain in popularity for the Tories, and they’re still saddled with a disastrous leadership election system that depends on the votes of blue-rinsed old bigots. (God knows what their performance would have been this time if IDS was still in as leader.) I’d say their chances for next time are still weak.
I noticed the Labour vote in Brown’s own constituency dropped by far, far less than almost everywhere else in Britain …

Nice to see a reduced majority – though still a pretty good one, mind! – for Labour; probably at the level now where a serious backbench rebellion can threaten them, which means they won’t be pushing through some of the more appalling anti-civil liberties stuff. Anybody more informed than me know what kind of percentage of Old Labour or Blairites went?

]]> By: cgs http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70696 cgs Fri, 06 May 2005 06:13:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70696 Did you see Galloway's victory speech? Crikey. And then his interview with Paxman? Double-crikey. Did you see Galloway’s victory speech? Crikey. And then his interview with Paxman? Double-crikey.

]]> By: derrida derider http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70695 derrida derider Fri, 06 May 2005 06:03:19 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70695 Five years is a long time, but the Lib Dems must have hopes of becoming the main opposition then, and even an outside chance of government. They'll only need a small swing to pick up an awful lot of new seats (the vagaries of an FPTP system). The Tories are in a deep structural malaise, and getting more and more irrelevant. If the economy is stumbling then, or if Gordon Brown turns out to be unsellable .... Five years is a long time, but the Lib Dems must have hopes of becoming the main opposition then, and even an outside chance of government. They’ll only need a small swing to pick up an awful lot of new seats (the vagaries of an FPTP system). The Tories are in a deep structural malaise, and getting more and more irrelevant. If the economy is stumbling then, or if Gordon Brown turns out to be unsellable ….

]]> By: ab http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/comment-page-1/#comment-70694 ab Fri, 06 May 2005 05:47:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/05/06/labour-wins-again/#comment-70694 Good result overall, shame about Galloway! Good result overall, shame about Galloway!

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