tony bologne. seems all the major pals of the great coiliton have suffered shame and gloom with their constituents. but not our dear one. he is invincible.

time to learn to eat cat food. ah, retirement.

Gee, is there a message in this for the Democrats?

Uh, move to England?

Uh, move to England?

Naw. We'll buy Diebold.

England today decided that it was tired of being the second most right wing first-world nation on Earth. Good for them.

In the 1970's the Liberals were down to 6 seats in Parlement. A good philosophy never dies and can comeback to national promenence.

Y'all do realize that the Tories also supported the war. Are the equivilent of our Republican Party. That many of Kerry's, Dean's, Clinton's people were over there working for the Labour Party. That Bill Clinton was over there working for Blair. The country will be moving further right with this makeup. The Liberal Democrats didn't makeup anything. Democrats shouldn't take any solice from these results. Unless you have such a dislike for Tony Blair that you'll go against party alliances. The end result will be at least 79 seat margin, y'all bought on the exit poll projection again, didn't you learn from our election not to leap to far on those? Our Labour friends were pulling for Kerry to win over here.

Actually Peter, Blair is down to a 57-seat majority as I write this, and the number one reason given by those who voted against Blair among late deciders was Iraq. The second largest reason was immigration, and those folks were in the bag for the Tories anyway.

"Well, at least in Great Britain, there is a political price to be paid for lying to your countrymen in order to get into a war."

The Republicans in the US are already paying the price, dumbass, and not because the hysterical left has been beating its collective chest (or meat) about opposing the war. The great middle of the country - which is where elections are won and lost - has swung away from Bush and the GOP.

The die is cast, and if you people don't fuck things up in '06 with another run at gay marriage or socialism or whatever else it is that gets you hot, I think the Dems will make solid gains.

Enjoy your math, if it makes you happy.

When I posted at 9:28 PM there were 605 seats decided. Now there are 620 seats decided. The tally is 350+ for Labour leaving 270- for all the others. 80 seats!!! No wonder Democrats can't win elections, they can't count. Go back to school Steve.

Here is the REAL message: in the UK, they still have a free press and an inquiring Media (sometimes too inquiring). They put the story out and let the citizens judge on it's merits. Here, the Administration gives the press and media the story they want told, and it gets told their way.

Peter, my schoolwork is just fine, thanks.

Labour's majority as I write this is 65, with seven seats left to be decided.

results

Lab 355
Con 197
Ld 62
Others 28

4 still outstanding

from here it looks like a lead of 62 . Guess its Peter's math skills that need improving.

incidentally 350+ for labour leave 290+ for the opposition not 270.......I guess peter needs to learn his arithmatic again. LOL

355 - 287 (197+62+28) = 68. Not 62.

Just to be quoted correctly:

"Now there are 620 seats decided. The tally is 350+ for Labour leaving 270- for all the others"

But here's the money quote from dear Peter;

The end result will be at least 79 seat margin, y'all bought on the exit poll projection again, didn't you learn from our election not to leap to far on those?

And what did those exit polls say;

Blair's party went into the elections with a 161 seat lead in the House of Commons, but is expected to now come out of the election with only a 66-seat lead,...

With 4 seats left to be decided Labor's majority stands at 68 seats.

A mere 2 seats variation from the exit polling prediction!

Concensus is.... Peter's a wanker!

But what do we really learn from this episode?

Peter should have just stuck with his criticism of what he percieved as a cynical shortsighted anti-Blair attitude instead of going for the cheap personnal attack.

Thanks for playing Peter. Johnny has some lovely parting gifts for you. Tell 'im what he's won Johnny!

The Liberals did attain their goal of reaching 60 seats. The backbenchers in Labour are unhappy with him. The new Parlement will move to the left.

'him' of corse being Blair. Expect a new PM soon, good riddance.

The lesson is if u are a leader of a foreign country and you get too close to the pariah Bush, you will pay an electoral price for it.

Not to pile on or anything but with 2 seats outstanding the margin now stands at 66 seats in Labors favor.

Who could have predicted that?

damn their exit polls are GOOD.