Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Tonight, We're Going To Party Like It's 1976
A warm welcome to the IMF on its arrival in this country in order to correct and chastise the Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer as if he were an errant schoolboy.
The main news here is that that no one considers this to be news.
Projected National Share is basically rubbish, but for Labour to top it based on the English county elections is little short of miraculous.
Of the few of them that, following the creation of unitary authorities, still have much in the way of population, Labour won Derbyshire from the Tories, won Nottinghamshire from the Tories, became the largest party in the Lancashire that the Tories used to run as a majority administration, had in any case dominated Durham since the Ark, and now does that so massively as to be almost comical.
7.5 per cent of the eligible vote in the English shires, so look for half that in the English cities, and half again in Scotland or Wales: no normal person supports UKIP pretty much by definition.
Still no seats even on most English county councils. Still fewer Councillors nationally than the Greens. Still no MP, anywhere.
Your not STILL supporting Miliband, are you? I mean, seriously?
ReplyDeleteThe guy who managed 29% (try not to laugh) of the national vote at last week's elections?
Gordon Brown got more than that in 2010.
Remember what I said about no normal person wanting anything to do with these parties?
You must feel humiliated.
Projected National Share is basically rubbish, but for Labour to top it based on the English county elections is little short of miraculous.
ReplyDeleteOf the few of them that, following the creation of unitary authorities, still have much in the way of population, Labour won Derbyshire from the Tories, won Nottinghamshire from the Tories, became the largest party in the Lancashire that the Tories used to run as a majority administration, had in any case dominated Durham since the Ark, and now does that so massively as to be almost comical.
7.5 per cent of the eligible vote in the English shires, so look for half that in the English cities, and half again in Scotland or Wales: no normal person supports UKIP pretty much by definition.
Still no seats even on most English county councils. Still fewer Councillors nationally than the Greens. Still no MP, anywhere.
Now, on topic, please.