The election results over the last few days have been very bad for Labour.
Brown and his, increasingly small, core team have been trying to define the criteria for assessment for weeks. Thy claimed that people would say "a pox on all your houses" and abandon all of the mainstream parties, they said that economic crisis was the end of capitalism, they said the Gordon Brown was well respected by the grass roots and voters even if the Westminster village were attacking him. All of these claims have been shot to bits by the results.
In both the European and local elections voters abandoned Labour and rather than run to the loony fringes voted Conservative. The Conservatives have beaten Labour in many of Labour's traditional heartland regions.
The fact that left of center parties all across Europe have lost votes to the center right shows that voters do not believe in the end of capitalism, rather they recognise the need for business minded parties to dig us out of the economic hole we are now in.
And most damning for Brown is the clear statement made by the British electorate. Far from being an issue of Westminster introspection, his failings as Prime Minister have been rewarded with the worst Labour election results in 80 years.
I suspect that Brown will refuse to recognise any of these things and try to carry on regardless, I also suspect that the Labour party will show just as much weakness now as they did after Blair. It was that weakness which let Gordon Brown walk into Number 10 unopposed and untested.
Many pupils struggle with basic sums
1 hour ago
Posts
5 comments:
James said that Labour voters rather than run to the loony fringes voted Conservative
1.2% more of the voters went to the Conservatives compared to 5 years ago (before the Labour General election victory). Not a really a great victory for the Conservatives.
UKIP is no longer a fringe party, maintaining 17% of the vote.
The big winners were Greens +2.5% and a number of fringe parties, each with less than 2% of the vote. Even the BNP got a larger swing to them than the Conservatives, and gained more seats on the night.
We now have over 900,000 racists in the country. I blame Ken and Boris for normalising racist language in mainstream politics.
Thankfully there's a blue light at the end of this very dark tunnel - and it's not only the paramedics come to commit Gordon!
Have you neen on the meths all night Jimmy, or are you just insane?!!!
"The big winners were the Greens and a number of fringe parties"........the Greens who did not increase their UK seats in the Euro Parliament and the fringe parties who got a total of ZERO UK seats in the Euro Parliament.
They'll certainly be able to be very effective when it comes to standing up for the UKs interests in the Euro Parliament after those 'big wins'.
Whereas the Conservatives actually increased their UK seats in the Euro Parliament.
Rattler 17,
If your only measure of success is extra seats then the Conservatives, UKIP and Lib Dems all did equally well. If you measure of success is share of the vote, or total number of seats - then Conservatives are the big winners (again).
But James stated that Labour voters switched to the Conservatives. They didn't, they switched to Greens and minor parties. That is why Conservative share of the vote only went up by 1.2%
What we know is that when Conservatives last got less than 28% of the vote in European elections they went on to lose the General Election. This is not really the victory they needed for electoral success this autumn.
Rubbish. We're well on the way to victory anytime the general election is held, commie-boy.
Post a Comment