{"id":3257,"date":"2005-05-05T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T21:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/05\/labour-to-win-with-66-seat-majority-from-guardian-unlimited-election-2005\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T21:07:27","slug":"labour-to-win-with-66-seat-majority-from-guardian-unlimited-election-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/labour-to-win-with-66-seat-majority-from-guardian-unlimited-election-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour to win with 66 seat majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBreaking news from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/election2005\/\">hippie Guardian election blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just announced by the BBC: Labour is expected to win tonight, but with a greatly reduced majority of 66 seats. It&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iainmurray.org\/MT\/\"> Iain Murray<\/a> is following the results closely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/\">Samizdata<\/a> not so much.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s heir apparent, Gordon Brown, strikes me as weak.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/labour-to-win-with-66-seat-majority-from-guardian-unlimited-election-2005\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labour to win with 66 seat majority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Qx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}