tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post2021080897134198308..comments2023-12-11T08:49:46.305+00:00Comments on Dizzy Thinks: Brown and out?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-66817073269726663922008-07-25T16:42:00.000+01:002008-07-25T16:42:00.000+01:00Dizzy you missed out the wider meltdown in the Loc...Dizzy you missed out the wider meltdown in the Local Elections and coming 5th in Henley.<BR/><BR/>'They will swing left, and be consigned back to the margins of politics where they belong.'<BR/><BR/> Well said Richard. I always thought they were at best a third party (with an Irish silent H).Conandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028671462205997161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-6976422523292884712008-07-25T13:49:00.000+01:002008-07-25T13:49:00.000+01:00Lab never really expected this shocking result.Tha...Lab never really expected this shocking result.<BR/><BR/>That swing of 22% is good, but look at it this way instead:<BR/><BR/><B>42% of the people that voted Labour in 2005 (in Glasgow East) didn't vote for them this time.</B><BR/><BR/>In Glasgow! An astonishing, seismic result.<BR/><BR/>Lab vote 2005: 18775 votes<BR/>Lab vote 2008: 10912 votes<BR/><BR/>Lab must knom that The End has well and truly arrived, but I can't see anyone wanting the top job at all. Even GB must see he has to go now, so surely we must be looking at a general election before 2010.<BR/><BR/>Happy days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-2743844802646555802008-07-25T10:45:00.000+01:002008-07-25T10:45:00.000+01:00It's worse than that for Labour. The New Labour pr...It's worse than that for Labour. The New Labour project is over, they have no philosophical position left to occupy and socialism in its final warped form is being finally ground into the dust.<BR/>Remember the Sun front page... "This is a dead party" with William Hague as a dead parrot? Labour's life expectancy is far worse. If they are defeated in the general election (and history says they will be), where will they go, what ground is there to occupy?<BR/><BR/>They will swing left, and be consigned back to the margins of politics where they belong.Richard Hollowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496289874547803218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-6300832887555279752008-07-25T09:47:00.000+01:002008-07-25T09:47:00.000+01:00I'm just trying to picture in my head what kind of...I'm just trying to picture in my head what kind of a reception he will get at the Labour conference, assuming he's still in place.Letters From A Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612766550608940053noreply@blogger.com