2.39 pm Friday
The results coming in from England suggest the Murdoch Effect is killing the Tories and my role model Ken Livingstone, the newt-fancying pro-lesbian bigamist, may just take London back, in his sixty-seventh year.
Watch this space.
9.95 am Saturday
Boris has beaten Ken by eight thousand votes, reversing in London a trend all over England that puts Labour on 39 percent and the Tories on 31. Labour has gained 823 seats and the Tories lost 405 and the Lib-Dems 336. Labor’s vote is up 16 points, the Tories’ down 9 and the Lib-Dems 8.. The Socialists will win in France tomorrow and the semi-Katterite super-socialists, who will abandon the euro and reaffirm the drachma as I lately advised, in Greece the same day.
This means I guess that Boris will be Tory leader soon, after his fellow Bullingdon buffoon David Cameron is booed by the Party Conference in September, and Clegg, mayhap, with Labour’s support and Miliband as deputy, Lib-Dem Prime Minister by Christmas and putting up new laws that will bring in preferential voting and so extinguish the Tory Party by 2020.
And so it goes.
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Murdoch runs the only printed newspapers in SE Queensland. His toxicity has been apparent for quite some time to anyone with an internet connection, and who has been paying the slightest bit of attention. Despite this, and subsequent to the voters venting sufficiently against the State Labor government, they decided to further trample Labor in the Council elections. I think we may be a good couple of election cycles behind the curve taking shape in Europe and the UK. Labor here are done for now, but they will rise again. Let them go.
If only. Boris thingy comes across like a bloody idiot . . . reminds me of some local conservatives . . .
Bob, as a leftish Aussie living in the UK, there is no chance Ken is going to be elected. Today and over the longer term, Boris will be the big winner of these elections.
Listening to Livingstone’s parting speech leaves a heavy heart for any Australian member of the Labor Party. His fighting words against the Tories, the media and unfair free market was something to behold.
If you can get the transcript Ellis, it would be well worthwhile putting up here.
He puts every member of the current federal cabinet to shame. They have lost their light on the hill, the defence of the most weak and their fighting spirit. Instead of fighting the Murdoch media, they kow-tow to it with their ‘maniacal’ obsession with the surplus, sacrificing every single good idea to bolster the lives of pensioners, students and our lowest income earners.
Livingstone may be a figure of Labour’s past, but he’s an icon of the way it needs to be presented in the future. It is extremely sad this great man and orator lost this last election. Now that he is unemployed we could use his insight down under to save this god forsaken shadow of a working class political party. But I doubt he’d waste his time on such a bunch of imbeciles. God help us all.