Posted on 05/05/2005 7:59:15 AM PDT by tellw
The Vote is under way!
"Joe Trippi was helping Blair's re-election (but I'm sure that everyone already knows that by now)."
... well, that's a reason for his setbacks right there!
That alone makes my night. : )
-16 and counting. The second half of the races are more titled to the conservatives than the first half. I don't think it is going to get to the hung area, but I'm no longer as sure of that as I was earlier.
That was me! LOL!
keys whooping him. War illegal. Kid blown away
I've seen part of his shtick...really didn't care for it. ; )
Who would the DUers be supporting?
Blair is looking very subdued -- tells me that Labour is not doing well at all and makes my night.
Probably mostly the LibDems, maybe some Labour, definitely not Tory.
Lib Dems are a combination of the old Liberal party (Lloyd George etc) and a Labour breakaway group from the 80s (IIRC).
Now they've swung left while Labour has moderated their socialist ways - moderated, not abandoned.
John Redwood (C), one of the leading eursceptics returned with increased majority.
Liberal dem.
Labor = commie
LDP= pinko commie
Shrewsbury and Atcham was DEFINITELY because of the Lib Dems...Conservatives barely moved while the Labour/Lib Dem transfer was almost completely clean.
I love these rosettes they wear to tell the party they are from.
Labour 246 (-16), Conservative 56 (+8), LibDems 29 (+6), Scottish National 6 (+2), Plaid Cymru 2 (-1), Independent 1 (+1) (340/646)
"Lib Dem" has only existed since 1987, I think. The Liberals were a historically significant party that lost their place to Labour in the 1920s and survived as a tenuous fringe party carried on by a few bright intellectual lights and very few seats in Parliament. Rural, suburban, and Celtic, but rarely very liberal, and too elitist to be socialist.
In 1983, moderate left-wingers split off from Labour (then hardcore Socialist) to found a Social Democratic party on the European model. They joined forces with Labour in that election to present a moderate alternative to both Thatcher and Michael Foot. Well the leftist vote was split and with the Falklands effect Thatcher won huge despite a rough economy.
The Liberals and Social Democrats (again, small parties dominated by bright personalities) merged in time for the 1987 election and have been Lib Dem ever since. They used to campaign on constitutional issues, like proportional representation, but recently decided that a better niche would be to be far-left social democrats who raise taxes and improve public services and oppose war.
So they're winning lots of seats in the cities from Labour this time, however they are consequently losing their historic seats in the rural areas to Conservatives because the voters liked Liberals and Lib Dems well enough, and would never vote Labour, but have now woken up to the party's new direction and are reconsidering their options.
Great question.
saddam's puppet galloway.
Really?
I thought you'd enjoy it. The whole idea of a jewish boy taking the piss out of urban hoods appeals to me. Funny boy.
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