it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
Well, there are 6 English/Scottish constituencies still left to report, plus 18 for Northern Ireland which will all go to minority parties, and it currently stands:
Labour 353
Conservative 196
Liberal Democrat 60
Of those 6 outstanding, in the last election (2001) 2 were LibDem, 3 were Labour and one was Tory. So the Tories have a chance of breaking 200 -- but I do so hope for symbolic reasons they don't. And I'm happy that the LibDems broke 60; it would be nice to get it up to 62. At this point, it's not really possible they could do better than that.
Labour's lead is therefore cut to around 65, down from 165 in the last election. Will it make any kind of difference to Labour policies? Well, I would hope they will have to take opposition to the war a bit more seriously now, but fundamentally, I think we're back to Buisness As Usual, folks. Sigh.
EDIT: LibDems held both St Ives and Argyll&Bute -- hooray!
EDIT: Labour held both Crawley and Wirral West -- even if Tories win Harlow, they'll not make it over 200 seats. Hooray!
Labour 353
Conservative 196
Liberal Democrat 60
Of those 6 outstanding, in the last election (2001) 2 were LibDem, 3 were Labour and one was Tory. So the Tories have a chance of breaking 200 -- but I do so hope for symbolic reasons they don't. And I'm happy that the LibDems broke 60; it would be nice to get it up to 62. At this point, it's not really possible they could do better than that.
Labour's lead is therefore cut to around 65, down from 165 in the last election. Will it make any kind of difference to Labour policies? Well, I would hope they will have to take opposition to the war a bit more seriously now, but fundamentally, I think we're back to Buisness As Usual, folks. Sigh.
EDIT: LibDems held both St Ives and Argyll&Bute -- hooray!
EDIT: Labour held both Crawley and Wirral West -- even if Tories win Harlow, they'll not make it over 200 seats. Hooray!