U.K. Labour Party Slips to Third Place

[RandySF]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/30/uk_labour_party_slips_to_third_place.html

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party fell to third place in an Ipsos-Mori poll for the first time since 1982 -- when the party supported both raising taxes and unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Said pollster Ben Page: "Labour is very, very weak."

Bloomberg reports that an internal document "distributed at the ruling party's annual conference sets out a day-by-day schedule for building support, suggesting a four-week election campaign beginning in April. No date has been fixed for the vote, which must be held by June."

[LuvNewcastle]

1. I love how their campaigns last 4 weeks

while ours last a year or more.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Doncha just love

the way we use pieces of paper and pencils for voting too. :)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. The "Third Way" leads to Third Place.

[redqueen]

3. Link to poll results.

Ipsos MORI’s September Political Monitor (carried out by telephone between 25-27 September among 1,003 British adults aged 18 and over) shows the Conservatives have lost support to the Liberal Democrats, with the Tories on 36%, Labour on 24% and the Liberal Democrats on 25%. Fieldwork for this poll began on Friday 25th September as the LibDem Conference wound to a close, and it seems clear that they have benefited from the attention. Nick Clegg's personal ratings have also increased since August.

(more at link)

http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=2475

[dipsydoodle]

5. My distaste for New Labour

is such that I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire - wankers.