The General Election

I don't have much to say about what was, as in the previous two, a fairly mundane campaign and a wholly anticipated result. Within the limits always going to be imposed by the farcical British electoral system - in which the Conservatives can gain more votes than Labour but fewer seats, or the Lib Dems have a fifth of the vote but only a tenth of Parliament - the result was very pleasing.

Sitting on the fence, by Stephen Von Der Heyde [From BBC News: In Pictures]The Conservatives did not get in, and thus can not kick those millions (or is it merely thousands?) of immigrants back to where they belong (a war zone on the other side of the globe will do very nicely, thank-you); the Lib Dems achieved their best result in modern political history, and will have learnt the valuable lesson for next time that they need to focus on - and will gain by - splitting not only the Labour vote, but the Conservative vote as well; and with his reduced majority Tony Blair will no longer be able to govern with such presidential style, and those bills which his party disagrees with (perhaps because they are bad bills, TB?) may now get filtered out, regardless of the lashes of the Whips.

Labels: general election, Politics