disgusted Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7522153.stm Beginning of the end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 With a bit of luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7522153.stm Beginning of the end? we can but hope... maybe now his own party will finally turn against him over the summer and he will get booted out and have to call an election... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 It's a poison chalice which no one with any sense will want for two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Come on Obs - stop polluting the place with politics and keep it in the section we created for all this stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Obviously Gaz, you can't read your own board. Who wrote the first post, who introduced the topic, who posted it in the wrong place - not me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Stop changing the subject.... this is a thread dedicated to gloating about Labour getting battered in Glasgow. Don't spoil the effect!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Tell Gaz, not me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 According to UK Polling Report and published in today's Guardian, if the Glasgow East result were to be repeated in a General Election, just 20 Labour MPs would survive, many of them not well known, and all but one of the current Ministers would be gone. Interestingly Robert Wareing (17) has been deselected by Labour, so know doubt he is now fancying his chances as an Independent. The survivors 1 Edward O'Hara Knowsley; 2 John Cummings Easington; 3 Peter Kilfoyle Liverpool Walton; 4 Jeff Ennis Barnsley East; 5 David Blunkett Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough; 6 Joe Benton, Bootle; 7 Chris Bryant Rhondda; 8 Don Touhig Islwyn; 9 Ian McCartney Makerfield; 10 Tom Clarke Coatbridge Chryston and Bellshill; 11 Ann Clwyd Cynon Valley; 12 Dennis Skinner Bolsover; 13 Chris Mullin Houghton and Sunderland South; 14 Yvette Cooper Normanton Pontefract and Castleford; 15 Dai Havard Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney; 16 Hywel Francis Aberavon; 17 Robert Wareing Liverpool West Derby; 18 John Healey Wentworth; 19 Huw Irranca-Davies Ogmore; 20 Frank Field Birkenhead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Just shows you can do anything with projections based on stats! Had to laugh at the Tory comment on the by-election that "their share of the vote had held up"! With a first past the post system, share of the vote is a a meaningless phrase, and Scotland and indeed any deprived area in England will remain Tory free areas. The problem in England is getting old Labour voters to start voting for a socialist alternative to "NEW" Labour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 The problem in England is getting old Labour voters to start voting for a socialist alternative to "NEW" Labour. Is there one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 There are several: problem is - the left tend to argue with each other over ideology rather than getting down to practicallities; which leaves the way open to the extreme right - which is where Labour voters are starting to drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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