A GLASGOW KISS FOR GORDON!
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 08:04AM What an amazing result.
The electorate in Glasgow East, an area which is staunchly Labour and which has returned Labour MP's for almost 90 years, have REJECTED the Labour candidate at the by-election held yesterday and returned the SNP candidate instead! A 13.500, majority was overturned! A 22% swing AGAINST Labour was recorded. What more need be said. We ARE witnessing the destruction of the NuLabour project and Brown is fated to bring about its demise.
There will be much speculation about whether Labour needs a change of Leader, whether Labour needs new policies, whether Labour can restore economic stability. These are all delusions. Labour has been in power too long, people are sick of Labour and want change. In Scotland they choose SNP, in England they choose Conservative. At every turn they choose anyone BUT Labour! Labour does not need to change, it needs to go. It's over and the next year will see further stakes being driven through its rotten black heart. In the meantime, expect to see Labour continue to be arrogant, insist that this is merely mid-term blues, that by-elections are fought on local issues..the usual catalogue of political excuses.
Labour is dead. The burial will happen come the General Election. Thank God.
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Labour is dead for sure, but most notably the Union is in terminal decline!
The New-Labour project has foundered. A perfect global economic storm, combined with its own economic profligacy and the fact that it has been in power for 11 years, has led to a decisive shift against it among the electorate throughout Britain.
Obviously Brown has been a disaster as PM and leader of the party. Obviously he should be replaced by his colleagues asap. But my guess is a combination of fear, calculation and demoralisation among Labour MPs will ensure that he survives to lead them to a huge defeat in 2010.
Daithio,
I think that was part of Labour's plan!
They started singing bye, bye.......
DV
It wasn't Labour's plan to break up the UK, as they've 39 MP's in Scotland.
But yes you're right their devolution plans have heralded a change too far.
Tristram Hunt writes:
It was empire, Protestantism and the Napoleonic wars that - in Linda Colley's celebrated idiom - forged Scotland and England into Great Britain during the long 19th century. But most of those nation-building bolts have now disintegrated, and it has been left to Gordon Brown to re-weld the union with his lofty talk of liberty, the rule of law, and the British way of life.
Yet the awful truth is that the tide of history is flowing in the other direction. From Slovakia to Kosovo to the nation formerly known as Belgium, the trend is for smaller, ethnically codified national entities at the expense of broader civic federations. And, when it comes to the United Kingdom, British government policy has only served to encourage such localist affiliations.
Odds on Irish Unity have shortened, time to go to Rome and get your candles blessed I think ;-)
The only sad thing is that the UK now has to "labour on" under this despicable, evil government for probably another 22 months, until the electorate finally kicks them out for good.
Hmmm....I ought to be feeling happy, because as the Labour Party is virtually (financially) bankrupt, their inevitable losing of the next general election ought to reduce them to the level of a tiny minority party, and thus kill off the whole "labour" movement for good. And yet... my distrust of this mendacious bunch of vile slugs is such that I wouldn't put it past them to do ANYTHING to try and cling on to power, at this stage.