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The Radio saysexit polling suggests Tony Blair's goverment taking a beating in the election in the UK. Anyone have any real knowledge of what is happenning?

Two small makeshift grenades exploded outside the British Consulate in New York early Thursday, causing slight damage to the building but injuring no one, officials said. The blasts occurred at 3:50 a.m. as voters were going to the polls in Britain. In London, Britain's Foreign Office said there were no provisions for Britons to vote at overseas consulates. Police spokesman Noel Waters said the grenades had been placed inside a cement flower box outside the front door of the midtown Manhattan building that houses the consulate. After piecing together the shrapnel, police determined the devices were toy grenades that had...

Blair's last plea to waverers over Iraq PM, Howard and Kennedy end campaign by targeting marginals to woo undecided voters Michael White, Nicholas Watt and Tania BraniganThursday May 5, 2005The Guardian The three main party leaders entered a final frenzy of campaigning yesterday, travelling from television studios to marginal seats across the country. Tony BlairThe Labour leader last night appealed to disaffected Guardian readers and other voters in the "progressive politics" camp to support the election of a third-term Labour government for the achievements they agree with - not help to throw it out in a self-defeating protest over Iraq....

How can you tell if a political party is brain-dead? Easy. It spends an entire campaign denouncing the incumbent as a smarmy, good-for-nothing liar, rather than outlining its own agenda. The Republicans tried it against Bill Clinton in 1996, the Democrats tried it against George W. Bush in 2004, and now in Britain the Conservatives are trying it, with equal lack of success, against Tony Blair. Such a tactic is beguiling because, to True Believers, the other side's triumphs are never on the up and up; they must be the result of hoodwinking the hapless electorate. The problem with this...

"Often in error, never in doubt" is the motto of the professional pundit. Today's election is deeply troubling to conservative Washington pundits; even now, most of us cannot answer the simple question, "Should Tony Blair win or lose?" Mr. Blair has been as staunch a friend as the U.S. has in the world. Throughout the war on terror, he has been brave, eloquent, thoughtful and incredibly helpful. A Blair victory would be interpreted around the world as a vindication of the Bush-Blair policy in Iraq. Nor has Mr. Blair's domestic record been so bad from a conservative point of view....

NEW YORK — New York City police were questioning people and studying video surveillance tapes Thursday to determine who may be responsible for detonating two makeshift grenades outside the building that houses the British Consulate (search) earlier in the morning. The explosions, which occurred on Britain's Election Day, caused the glass panels at the building's entrance in midtown Manhattan to shatter but no one was injured, officials said. A one-foot chunk from the planter was also torn off. The department's bomb squad was at the scene and streets were closed in the area. The blasts happened at 3:50 a.m. EDT....

Blair majority 'slashed' By George Jones, Political Editor (Filed: 06/05/2005) Tony Blair was heading back to No 10 early today but with his authority dented by the prospect of a substantially reduced majority. An exit poll announced after the polls closed at 10pm suggested that Labour had suffered a backlash from the Iraq war after the longest and most closely fought election campaign for more than a decade. Mr Blair, who is 52 today, is on course to enter the history books as the first Labour prime minister to win three successive elections. But the exit poll suggested a two...

All the action from Bognor to Ballymena – live(ish) as it happens.     7.30pm BST For some reason, I didn't get around to making a formal UK election prediction. Too depressing, really. But with polls about to close let's just say I expect turnout to be down, and the question then is: who's most motivated to show up? The Tories ran one of the most stupid campaigns in British history — making Blair's "lies" a big issue when, even if one accepts that he did lie, he lied on a subject on which they broadly agree with him: Iraq. The net...

Tony Blair is on course to win an historic third term for Labour but with a much reduced majority, according to a joint BBC/ITV exit poll. The poll suggests Mr Blair's majority will be reduced from 160 to 66. The findings - based on 13,000 voters from 320 polling stations in marginal seats - were announced as polls closed in the 2005 general election. Counting is now underway with the first results of the night expected shortly after 2300 BST.

The Vote is under way!

Per MSNBC...

What will Britain's Conservatives do after getting trounced again tomorrow? Bath, England – From 1874, when Benjamin Disraeli won a decisive election victory, to 1997, when John Major lost a calamitous defeat, the Conservative Party — the Tories, as their convenient older name goes — held office for 84 out of 123 years. They dominated British politics; they demolished the idea that the 20th century inevitably belonged to the left; they were the most electorally successful party in history, in any country. Now the Tories have already lost two successive elections for the first time in more than 30 years,...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to win a record third straight term for his Labor Party in elections tomorrow despite a campaign dogged by sharp criticism of the war in Iraq and his handling of immigration and health care issues. Most political analysts think the result will be far closer than Mr. Blair's landslide victories in 1997 and 2001, but opinion polls forecast a comfortable Labor win in the race for the 646 seats in a revamped House of Commons.

LONDON, May 3 - Election campaigns claim unforeseen casualties, and in Britain's case one may be the ability of British leaders to order troops to war at America's side in quite the same way the United States has come to expect. The campaign for the election here on Thursday has brought a series of damaging disclosures about Prime Minister Tony Blair's actions in the prelude to the invasion of Iraq, provoking forecasts that future prime ministers will face greater constraints in sending troops to war. "Politicians have to understand the degree of responsibility they hold in an era when they...

ILFORD, England (AP) - In this closely fought district on the eastern outskirts of London, the opposition Conservatives - led by the son of a Romanian immigrant - are hitting hard on their promise to crack down on immigration just days before the election. The message is resonating with many voters - even some immigrants. Others are disturbed by the anti-immigrant rhetoric. "Sometimes I think the authorities are too soft," said Dalbir Deol Singh, a Sikh voter in the Ilford North constituency now held by the governing Labour Party. Although he's voting for Labour, he says his children will vote...

It took a second look to ensure that, yes, it was Tony Blair. Eight years of government are now well etched on his features and the strain of the election is showing. Blair, remember, is not used to having to fight elections in the fullest sense of the word. In 1997 he was a fresh face, a welcome relief after eighteen years of the Conservatives, elected almost by acclamation to replace a tired old government weakened by sleaze allegations. In 2001 he was a prime minister in total command facing an unfocussed and still divided opposition.

ROCHDALE, England, May 2 - Between plates of curry and mugs of ale, volunteers studied tattered lists of registered voters at the Labor Party's headquarters here. In a corner, examining a computer screen displaying demographic data about the electoral makeup of this hard-fought district, was Karen Hicks, the former New Hampshire campaign manager for Howard Dean and field director for the Democratic National Committee. Ms. Hicks's presence here in the final days of the national British election campaign underlines what has become an urgent concern of the Labor Party as it works to ensure the re-election of Prime Minister Tony...

HOVE, England, May 1 - If there is one campaign issue that Prime Minister Tony Blair would prefer to wish away before Britons go to the polls on Thursday, it is probably the question of his integrity and credibility in the way he handled the period leading up to the Iraq war. But on Sunday, Iraq came back to haunt him yet again in a newspaper article suggesting that he had committed himself to an American plan for "regime change" months before he told either Parliament or the people that British participation in the American-led invasion was all but inevitable....

This is the crucial bit. It is only now that millions of people will be beginning to focus properly on the decision to be made in casting their vote on Thursday. If the polls are to be believed, something mighty strange is about to happen on that day. The public believe in large numbers that Tony Blair is a liar, that the war in Iraq was a fraud, that immigration policy is an outrageous shambles, that violent crime is out of control and that health and education are in dire straits. And yet the pollsters tell us that this same...