The (hippie) Guardian’s summary of the British election:
Labour should be very humble and grateful that so many voters have been prepared to stick with them to the extent that they have. But the electorate has changed the momentum of British politics overnight. This has been a powerful blow to a political movement which until now has had no real experience of defeat to be treated in this way, losing seats to Tories, Liberal Democrats and, as a remarkable result in Blaenau Gwent showed, to independents. The politics of the ensuing days and weeks will focus on the future of Mr Blair after his superhuman majorities have now been cut down to something more like politics as normal. Yet the prime minister’s future is not, in the end, likely to be as contentious or crucial a question as whether Labour itself can regroup and recreate itself in time for the next general election.
HT Norm Geras.
This is the end for Tory leader Michael Howard.