Election 2005
Quote of the moment:
Brooks Newmark, Conservative, 23,597
Alan Hurst, Labour, 19,704
Peter Turner, Liberal Democrat, 7,037
Brooks Newmark, the Conservative candidate that I voted for, won a convincing victory and is off to Parliament for the first time:
The similarity in hairstyle is purely incidental to my support. In Cardiff, where I will be spending rather more of my time over the next electoral term, the Liberal Democrats took Cardiff Central from Labour, winning with a pretty impressive 49.8%:
Jenny Willott will also be heading to Westminster for the first time and the Liberal Democrats as a whole took several Labour scalps in marginal and far from marginal seats, which was awesome.
In other areas, I was impressed by the Lib Dem's holding Brent East, Dr Richard Wyre, the Kidderminster Hospital candidate, holding Wyre Forest. I was disappointed by George Galloway's narrow win in Bethnal Green and Bow, because he seems a lying git to me. It's a shame that the Telegraph could produce no evidence to prove their story of him being in the pay of Saddam, but it's probably in the archives of paperwork taken by the coalition forces somewhere.
Due to the vagaries of the British system of seats, Labour has won a large majority in terms of seats, they had only 36% of the vote to the Tory 33%. That is the lowest amount of the vote for any British government ever since democracy began, with the previous low being 40%. When you consider the number of people who didn't vote, Tony Blair only has the backing of about a quarter of the nation. That's not exactly impressive. Proportional representation should just have leapt up the agenda.
Brooks Newmark, Conservative, 23,597
Alan Hurst, Labour, 19,704
Peter Turner, Liberal Democrat, 7,037
Brooks Newmark, the Conservative candidate that I voted for, won a convincing victory and is off to Parliament for the first time:
The similarity in hairstyle is purely incidental to my support. In Cardiff, where I will be spending rather more of my time over the next electoral term, the Liberal Democrats took Cardiff Central from Labour, winning with a pretty impressive 49.8%:
Jenny Willott will also be heading to Westminster for the first time and the Liberal Democrats as a whole took several Labour scalps in marginal and far from marginal seats, which was awesome.
In other areas, I was impressed by the Lib Dem's holding Brent East, Dr Richard Wyre, the Kidderminster Hospital candidate, holding Wyre Forest. I was disappointed by George Galloway's narrow win in Bethnal Green and Bow, because he seems a lying git to me. It's a shame that the Telegraph could produce no evidence to prove their story of him being in the pay of Saddam, but it's probably in the archives of paperwork taken by the coalition forces somewhere.
Due to the vagaries of the British system of seats, Labour has won a large majority in terms of seats, they had only 36% of the vote to the Tory 33%. That is the lowest amount of the vote for any British government ever since democracy began, with the previous low being 40%. When you consider the number of people who didn't vote, Tony Blair only has the backing of about a quarter of the nation. That's not exactly impressive. Proportional representation should just have leapt up the agenda.
2 comments:
So labour are the winners then? That's fair dos. If I cared I would've voted, and if I could've be bothered to go I would've just soiled a ballot paper, so meh, don't really care tbh. If Koels gonna bitch about it, she can blame herself cos I said I'd go vote for whoever she wanted but she didn't say.
From her blog I think I detected a certain despair at the futility of voting due to the uselessness of all three main parties(in her view). You could have voted Green for her, especially if they had a fittie canvassing...
Post a Comment