Good luck to all Labour candidates - 4 comments
I do feel I could have done more (like, something) to help with campaigning for today's Council Elections, but having no elections in Brighton and Hove made it that much more difficult to become fully engaged this time around, I'm afraid.
Recent actions by our Ministers have hardly helped matters, but more on that later. I imagine the political blogosphere will be a hive of activity as soon as polls close. A huge amount of flak will be flying, but we should try to make the best of it, and make sure that Labour becomes the best, the most intelligent, the most imaginative, and the most radical, progressive force it can be, whatever the short-term difficulties and hurdles.
In the meantime, best wishes to all our blogging Councillors and to our aspiring, blogging candidates.
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Numbers to watch out for:
Anything between 300 and 350 net losses will mean Labour is roughly doing as badly as 2004, which was bad enough.
I reckon the net loss will be at least 400 seats, and surely a loss approaching 500 will cause Blair to think about an early exit, if he is not already thinking about it.
The bloodletting cannot continue, Labour is dying on the ground.
Thanks! I for one will need as many votes as I can get
Share of the vote is the figure to watch for. If the Tories manage to get a higher share than they did under Hague or IDS - say, 40% - then we can indulge in some *slight* bloodletting.
I'd be worried if they reached anything like 40%! I could always look on PoliticalBetting but I'm frightened to :-)
Wasn't planning to say anything that might cause undue controversy before polls close, but I must say that I'm quite keen on the bloodletting idea. Look how many 'generations' the Tories went through up until '97 (even if they got worse in so many ways). For me, there are still too many traces of '94-'97, and the Hilary Benn gen - besides, he's no spring chicken - should be right up there, with more of the recent intake in positions. Really, with the number of MPs we have, we should have a wider, and younger mix, and people like Prescott really ought to call it a day. I'll reserve judgement on the Blair issue for the time being.
People do have short memories, of course. In 1977 we did shockingly badly, being heavily outpolled by the Tories even in the Metropolitan areas, and yet in 1981 (*with* Foot, but *before* the SDP split), there was a complete, and dramatic turnaround.
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