Britain's Labour Party suffers losses in local polls

[lovuian]

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when ya can't win try to cheat
100,000 votes are spoilt due to electronic voting machines

Blair is gone for a reason
Britain's ruling Labour Party suffered marked losses in local and regional elections, the last of the Blair era.

But results Friday showed that the party steered clear of an 'electoral disaster' that had been widely predicted.

Nearly 40 million voters were called to the polls across Britain, except in London, Thursday to choose town and city councils and elect the representatives to the regional parliaments in Scotland and Wales.

The elections, coming in the middle of Labour's third term in national government, were seen widely as a 'final verdict' on the 10-year tenure on Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is due to step down within the next few weeks.
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[Wetzelbill]

1. Blair is the thinking man's Bush

man, I don't even know what I meant by that. :silly:

[Eugene]

2. Blair defiant over poll results (BBC)

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Friday, 4 May 2007, 19:57 GMT 20:57 UK

Blair defiant over poll results

Tony Blair says Labour's results in the 2007 elections will provide a
"perfectly good springboard" for the party to win the next General
Election.

Despite his party suffering big losses in England and Wales, and later
being defeated in Scotland by the SNP, he said Labour had escaped
a "rout".

He said it had been a "dreadful set of results" for the Lib Dems and
said the Tories had not "broken through".

The elections were Mr Blair's last before he steps down as Labour
leader.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6621807.stm

[silverojo]

3. He's destroying the Labour Party

With the only alternative being the Conservatives...I'd really hate to be living in the UK right now. :scared:

[Rydz777]

4. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the

largest number of seats in the Scottish Parliament. The SNP favors breaking up the 300 year old union with England and creating an independent Scottish Republic within the European Union. The SNP has a plurality but lacks a majority in the Parliament, but it was a major setback for the Labour Party and Blair's successor Gordon Brown, himself a Scot.