Labour to win with 66 seat majority

Breaking news from hippie Guardian election blog: Just announced by the BBC: Labour is expected to win tonight, but with a greatly reduced majority of 66 seats. It’ll be a good night for the Conservatives, who should gain 44 seats, but the Liberal Democrats will be disappointed if they only gain the predicted two seats. … Continue reading “Labour to win with 66 seat majority”

Breaking news from hippie Guardian election blog:

Just announced by the BBC: Labour is expected to win tonight, but with a greatly reduced majority of 66 seats. It’ll be a good night for the Conservatives, who should gain 44 seats, but the Liberal Democrats will be disappointed if they only gain the predicted two seats.

An excellent outcome, if you can believe these pesky exit polls. Since both Tories and Blair were pro-liberation of Iraq, this election was not the endorsement of fascism the Liberal Democrats were hoping to achieve.

UPDATE: Iain Murray is following the results closely, Samizdata not so much.

Murray says a margin of less than 80 seats is trouble for Blair (he would have to step down before the next election), and less than 50 is pretty much the immediate end of his leadership. Blair’s heir apparent, Gordon Brown, strikes me as weak.

8 thoughts on “Labour to win with 66 seat majority”

  1. Weird (to me, at least) that you link the word fascism with Liberal Democrats. I would love to hear you explain fully tow things: What is Fascism? How are Liberal Democrats fascists?

    PS: I don’t know if this would be of interest to other readers of your blog or not. You, of course, would know better than me.

  2. In this context, Saddam Hussein is fascism, and those who advocated keeping him in power are therefore (objectively) pro-fascist.

  4. Did you want me to explain why mass killing and torture are bad behaviors too?

    My point is that there’s a contradiction between the claims that the reduction in the size of Labour’s majority and the fact that the party that picked up the most seats was also pro-liberation. The Lib Dem Party had hoped to make major gains with their program of pacifism and self-indulgence, but in reality their total seat count is less than Labour’s margin over the second-place party.

    Tacit endorsement of fascism didn’t work for them in this election.

  5. I didn’t ask you to explain why mass killing or
    torture is bad. I asked you to explain 1) your understanding of what fascism is 2) why you think Liberal Democrats are fascists.
    Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

  6. Here’s some grist for the mill:

    Characteristics of fascism:

    -powerful nationalism
    -disdain for human rights
    -identification of enemies or scapegoats
    as a unifying cause
    -supremacy of the military
    -rampant sexism
    -controlled mass media
    -obession with national security
    -religion & government are intertwined
    -corporate power is protected
    -labor power is suppressed
    -disdain for intellectuals & the arts
    -obsession with crime & punishment
    -rampant cronyism
    -fraudulent elections

  7. Yada yada yada – look I’ve explained and re-explained by linkage of the Lib Dems to fascism. You either agree or don’t.

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