…… I really truly hope so
Well done to the many comrades who stayed up to some ungodly hour to watch the result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election. I got up at 3:30am this morning, saw the result, quietly cheered (don’t want to disturb the neighbours) and went back to bed.
Below are the figures.
- Labour: 14,718 (42.1%)
- Lib Dems: 11,160 (31.9%)
- Conservatives: 4,481 (12.8%)
- UKIP: 2,029 (5.8%)
- BNP: 1,560 (4.5%)
- Green Party: 530 (1.5%)
- Monster Raving Loony Party: 145 (0.4%)
- English Democrats: 144 (0.4%)
- Pirate Party: 96 (0.2%)
- Bus Pass Elvis Party: 67 (0.1%)
Will the result further the meltdown of the Tories in yellow, they have dropped to 7% and may plummet further into the political gutter? Let’s hope so…. here’s to the further demise of those can’t-keep-a-promise Tories in yellow. I salute your cowardice, your weakness and your indefatigability in doing the other Tories bidding, ditching your policies and making people really loathe you. As Britney Spears once sang, “You’re toxic”…. Indeed..
Nice work for 8 months! Keep it up and you may completely implode!!
“Labour: 14,718 (42.1%)
Lib Dems: 11,160 (31.9%) ”
Now, hadn’t it been for the Labour previous govermnet endorsing neoliberalism and Bush’s so-called War on Terror and the LibDems having just betrayed their own voters, I’d say “I wish I’ve been British”.
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Nice work for 8 months! Keep it up and you may completely implode!!
I’ll second that! There is no more treacherous a party than the L-Ds. Promising certain things, then delivering the opposite and trying to acceptable-ise it with cheap double speak.