Southall & Sedgefield results
First electoral tests of Brown's leadership passed with flying colours.
The allegedly invincible Lib Dem by-election machine created by Lord Rennard over decades shown by Tom Watson, Joan Ryan and new London Labour Party Regional Director Ken Clark to be eminently beatable (by over 5,000!).
Cameron a busted flush - and deservedly given Tory opportunism in terms of community politics in Southall.
Roll on the General Election and a 4th Labour term!
posted by Luke Akehurst at 1:58 am
5 Comments:
There can be no other way of reading these two results as anything but a really bad outcome for David Cameron in person.
For the rest of us, the negative thing overall is how the Ealing shenanigans verified just how far there is an ongoing breakdown in political party coherence and loyalties in the UK... a bit like the politicians belatedly following the increasingly fewer voters
10:32 am, July 20, 2007
Very poor for DC, esp in Ealing. Putting his name on the ballot paper was a huge tactical mistake.
The Tories are claiming that they've done well to increase their vote. Straws and clutch springs to mind. Back in the 80s and 90s, Labour / LibDems would have romped home in a Tory seat with a similar majority
10:59 am, July 20, 2007
The Southall result is very good for Lab.
Sedgefield is more or less how the majority of people were expecting
12:04 pm, July 20, 2007
Ealing Southall is the smallest swing against a Governing Party since Beaconsfield in 1982 (during the falklands war).
A remarkable result.
2:36 pm, July 20, 2007
Interesting that the smallest swings against a governing party should mark the beginning (Beaconsfield) and the end of ACL Blair's parliamentary career!
Southall was a good result for Labour - the actual vote for all parties went down, so the LibDems cannot claim any great success there.
Sedgefield was disappointing. OK, Blair had been a well-known candidate but for the BNP to get 9% of the vote when we have a good local candidate is more than a little disappointing.
11:19 am, July 22, 2007
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