Elections

[mrph]

The results look pretty good, from my point of view. Blair gets a kick in the teeth, the BNP get almost nothing. The Conservatives get a bit of a boost, but not enough to suggest that they'll walk straight back into government next year... and the Liberal Democrats also get a bit of a boost.

Was pleased to see that we didn't have a BNP candidate standing in the local elections, too. They did field candidates in the Euro elections though, and I'm hoping they get nothing...

Comments

Re: Scared

[merlina.livejournal.com]

agreed! The real tragedy is that Blair destroyed the Labour party - or that the Labour party allowed itself to be destroyed, a process begun by Kinnock and his 'modernisers' and continued to an extent which would have been inconceivable not that long ago. That means there isn't, for many people, a tenable alternative

Re: Scared

[zarbi.livejournal.com]

I a bland, soft-left sort of person, and so I had no objection to Kinnock and Hattersley, especially when people like Benn were far more interested in in-fighting than getting into power and actually having some chance of doing good (well, that was my impression of things). I was prepared to put up with a lot from Blair in order to see Labour back in power, but I have lost patience. Tution fees and pointless stupid delays on things such as same-sex rights, fox hunting, and reform of the Lords were very annoying. What I simply can't understand, and what makes me think Blair must go, is the fixation with Bush - what is the strange fascination with America? I would have expected a Labour prime minister to be opposed to the politices of such a fundamentalist right-winger as Bush out of principle.

Re: Scared

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

pointless stupid delays on things such as same-sex rights

Don't get me wrong, there are an awful lot of things that I dislike Labour for - but my view was that at least they had brought gay rights forward, and my impression was that they were a lot better than Conservatives for this..? Eg, it was under Labour that we finally got equal age of consent for same-sex (the delays on this were due to the House of Lords), whilst Conservatives until recently supported Section 28 IIRC.