Did I mention I'm also 1/4th Welsh (as is my name) ? 
Posted on 07/24/2008 11:41:19 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Gordon Brown’s worst nightmare was realised early today as the Scottish National Party triumphed by taking Glasgow East, one of Labour’s safest seats.
The hopes of Labour strategists that their disastrous run of electoral setbacks was about to end were dashed as the SNP’s John Mason achieved the enormous 22 per cent swing required to topple the long-time stronghold.
Mr Mason, a Glasgow councillor, overturned a 13,507 Labour majority at the general election in 2005 to win by 365 votes from Labour’s Margaret Curran. Turnout was just over 42 per cent. Earlier in the day, Labour had requested a recount, which delayed the result being announced by around an hour.
In his victory speech Mr Mason described the result as "not just a political earthquake, it is off the Richter scale. It is an epic win, and the tremors are being felt all the way to Downing Street”.
He added: "We have removed the dead hand of Labour control."
Mrs Curran admitted that the Labour Party had to listen to the voters. “I do believe the Labour Party has to listen and has to hear the message from the people of Glasgow East," she said.
While Mr Brown is not under immediate threat, it was the worst possible result as he prepares for a summer holiday and tries to chart a plan for his own and Labour’s recovery.
The result will intensify doubts among Labour MPs about Mr Brown’s ability to win a general election and could spell trouble at Labour’s conference in the autumn when a weakened Prime Minister will have trouble getting his way on a range of policy issues.
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“....This is what we fought for???...”
My thoughts exactly. I can not believe how far my fellow Scots have sunk. Seems the best genes fled to the USA and Oz.
“...You’d figure people in the UK would be fed up with their country’s Christian culture and traditions being erased and replaced with Islamic appeasement..”
They may be fed up with it, but if the Christians DON’T run for office, if they DON’T show up to vote en masse, if they DON’T bloc-vote and support their candidates, if they LET themselves get infiltrated and undermined by liberal socialists, and if they just basically hide their heads in the sand while the country that THEY BUILT is subverted, well, what else do they expect?
Same here in this country. When good men run for office, they need to be supported, fought for, and defended.
Instead we let our people get run out - Tom Delay, John Ashcroft, John Bolton, Rick Santorum, etc.,
And we’re left with Pelosi and Reid...and OComma...
I say that the Sheep Shaggers ie Welshies and the Jocks ie the Scots should make a go of independence. The idea of Charles Windsor Saxe-Coburg Gotha, private citizen, makes me happy.
2. Islam threatens the SECULAR culture of the UK, which has had enough of wars over religion to the point of rejecting religion altogether.
More good news out of Europe!
>2. Islam threatens the SECULAR culture of the UK, which has had enough of wars over religion to the point of rejecting religion altogether.<
Go point, many don’t understand the reasons behind most of Europe’s desire to be secular.
That is one awesome name!
“More good news out of Europe!”
“I know full well the only people to benefit from Independence won’t be the Scottish... it’ll be the English. A prime example of “be careful what you wish for... you might get it.””
You think the English are going to re-institute the right of prima noctes?
The UK comes to its senses once every 40 years, like clockwork, and the clock is still ticking....
Did I mention I'm also 1/4th Welsh (as is my name) ?
Ya never know...
I thought Gordon Brown was well-endowed ?
http://www.destinationcreation.com/informatives/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/keira_knightley_cc.jpg
I know. Sometimes subtlety and sarcasm is lost in such a format... ;-P
Not exactly, it’s more like the green party beating Pelosi. The SNP is also a leftist party. Still it’s great news.
Amy Whinehouse looks like the results of a crossbreading experiment of a labrador and a klingon....no offense to those two intended.
Actually, England and Scotland became the UK when James VI of Scotland became James I of England too. In other words, England joined Scotland, not the other way round.
The union of the two parliaments, in 1707, was largely made possible by the auspices of Scots. The great English public was either antipathic, or didnt give a cuss.
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