Labour Clobbered in British Local Elections
Guess the Brit’s don’t like “New Labour” without Tony Blair:
Gordon Brown admitted that it had been a “disappointing” night for Labour after the party suffered its worst election results for four decades in what was his first proper electoral test as Prime Minister.
With results still coming in from elections around England and Wales, Labour’s projected national vote share was put at just 24 per cent, trailing 20 points behind David Cameron’s Conservatives on 44 per cent, and even behind the Liberal Democrats on 25 per cent.
The margin was similar to the drubbing received by John Major in council elections in 1995, two years before he was ejected from Downing Street by Tony Blair. Latest analysis suggests that the Tories would enjoy a landslide Commons majority of between 138 and 164 seats if the results were repeated in a general election.
Given how pathetic the Tories have been of late, they certainly wouldn’t deserve that sort of a majority…but the policies of Brown are alienating a lot of Brits. True to form, the left wing of Labour - who made Labour un-electable for more than a decade - are prescribing increased taxes and welfare as the cure-all. Tories probably can’t believe their luck.
102 comments May 3rd, 2008
