Labour was tonight preparing itself for an electoral hammering as it awaited the results of the Crewe and Nantwich byelection. Party sources have admitted that Labour could lose by as many as 8,000 votes in what is being billed as the most important byelection for more than a decade. The polls close at 10pm and the result is expected between 2am and 3am. Some activists on the ground in Crewe said that turnout had been higher than expected.
Party sources have admitted that Labour could lose by as many as 8,000 votes in what is being billed as the most important byelection for more than a decade.
The polls close at 10pm and the result is expected between 2am and 3am. Some activists on the ground in Crewe said that turnout had been higher than expected.
If it is of that order Brown has little chance of surviving to the next election, possibly not till Xmas. Of course, there is the minor problem that there isn't a credible replacement but right now allowing Brown to walk in unopposed last year is looking to be a mistake of clinton AUMF proportions. An election losing fatal error that can never be washed away. keep to the Fen Causeway
They smell blood. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
NuLab could do with a stiff reminder where its loyalties should lie, but unfortunately without a credible progressive party in the UK we're left with a choice on a spectrum between bimbly well-meaning ineptitude and outright frothing racism.
Cameron is already preparing his short sharp shock of national austerity speech (for everyone except his City chums.)
Education? Health care? Transport? Climate change? Social investment? Infrastructure? Strategy and foresight?
No, I don't think so.
And American "Welfare-to-Work" has now been replaced by "Work for Welfare" over there.
Now that I think about it, looking through the agenda, is there anything in this that they didn't rob from the post-1994 US? Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
what's with the stupid tree symbol?
Green. So, very, very green.
I'd say it's like the Bush administration for retarded people, but as no one among the Tories could possibly be as stupid as Bush, I'll conclude it's an act, and thus that it's even worse.
You're forgetting the Epic Fail that was the Thatcher legacy.
Stupid? Criminal? Self-serving and smug? Abusive towards the weak and poor?
When they say 'You can have it all', that's exactly what they mean.
and the multitudes who pitilessly turn our thumbs down on her entreaties. Hers and every other Blairite scumdrels that has polluted our politics since 1997. To the lions with them. keep to the Fen Causeway
The long knives will be out after Crewe, but it's not clear that any of the second-raters would be more popular or effective than our current leaderiser.
My nightmare NuLab choice would be John Reid. Mr Bovver Boot would make an exceedingly bad prime minister, and really shouldn't be allowed within Westminster's grubby oik exclusion zone, just in case.
Looks like an out of work muppet looks like an escaped lunatic is obviously bonkers is obviously a religious nut is too closely connected to the war is too closely part of a Brown/blair faction.
if you were looking for a choice from Labour who was popular or against the war, you'd really be left looking at Mo Mowlam or Robin Cook, and they're probably disqualified through being dead Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
