New Labour minus over 250 seats....

[Loosehead]

Protest vote or have the public had enough of New Labour and His Tonyness?

[WaldoMcFroog]

A bit of both, I suspect, with probably more on the former.

Where I live is staunch Tory with little Labour support and the people at the polling office said it had been dead all day, suggesting without Labour to protest vote against, people weren't that bothered. Overall, I believe the turnout was up.

It seems perhaps that regardless of the colour of their rosettes all parties lose sight of reality by a third term and become tainted.

[youngmafbog]

Quite true waldo.

I reckon Tony is learning the hard way that middle england giveth and middle England taketh.

It was only a matter of time.

Tony has of course shot himself in the foot. He appeased middle england voters and wooed them into New labour but then forgot the staunch labour votor. Now he's p*ssed off middle england who does he have left.

He has to go to give labour any credibility but then we're back to old labour with brown. Should just about be the icing on the cake for a Tory victory.

[flip-flop]

Comrade Brown in charge - that truly scares the life out of me: Nobody doubts that he is fiercely intelligent, but it does scare me that he is a socialist, which would mean squeezing us until we pop (more so than now) tax wise. I am also concerned that he will undo all the good work that Maggie did by legislating against sympathy stikes and so on. The very last thing this country needs is a return to 70's union led power.

Makes me shudder.

Plus I can never forgive his outrageous pension theft - my poor father-in-law, who has worked since he was 14, has pretty much been left without a pot to **** in since his retirement last year, having ploughed thousands upon thousands into his pension.

[Zen]

250 seats lost,over a thousand criminals lost. Rather careless I think.

[jake-the-peg]

I hate to rain on your middle-England parade but last nights results were no worse than those in 2004.

Of course the following May Labour won the election and with up to 4 years left to run in this parliament.

Personally I reckon TB has a bee in his bonnet about serving 10 years and we'll see him go about this time next year.

Should be just long enough for everbody to get tired of seeing Cameron say "Yes" to everybody

[jump79]

Definitely a protest vote, although other parties seemed to interpret the results as a popularity vote on their side, ie- Cameron.

[Lonnie]

I should say definately a protest vote, this sort of thing has happened consistantly with local elections, but whe the local election has been in the same year as a general election, 'consistantly', the Labour vote has risen again.

[Loosehead]

well flip flop usually I have some allegience to your views but "fiercely intellegent" and "socialism" are oxymoronic, old chap. I don't think there are many left who think socialsim can work, with the possible exception of old Labour...... Oh dear

[Toureman]

both!

[The Prince]

Labour out. They are gradually destroying this country in my opinion.

All hail king Cameron.