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The Written World
Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in each [...] read our review » -
“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did indeed [...] read our review » -
Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review »
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Brown’s position already appears fairly untenable. Playing Fantasy Politics for a minute, is there anything in the Labour Constitition to prevent Blair from making a political comeback, if he won a by-election somewhere.-Unlikely I know (Labour winning a by- election, that is).
According to the Guardian’s live-blogging effort.
After, I think 5 confirmed constituencies,
7 of 14 constituencies declared.
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris Johnson: 46%
Ken Livingstone: 40%
Brian Paddick: 9%
10.55pm: Ten out of fourteen constituencies declared.
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris: 718,959 43%
Ken: 659, 311 39%
Brian P: 166, 347 10%
Only four more to go.
Ain’t been watching and hate the word “Twittering” but looks like a done deal ?
11 of 14 constituencies declared.
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris Johnson: 804, 439 42%
Ken Livingstone: 709, 929 37%
Brian Paddick: 187,158 10%
Only a few minutes away for a result!!!!
10.45pm: We’re getting close – THIRTEEN out of fourteen constituencies declared, according to Sky…
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris: 963,700 42%
Ken: 834, 396 37%
Paddick: 220, 998 10%
Debbie
Only a few minutes away, possibly.
11.39pm: We’re getting close – THIRTEEN [Fourteen? - Ed] out of fourteen constituencies declared, according to Sky…
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris: 1,043,761 43%
Ken: 893, 877 37%
Paddick: 236, 685 10%
On to the second preferences now?
Result tomorrow then..
Looking like it Pete.
Here we go. And it’s Boris alright. It’s official.
Boris got over a million. 1,430,761 votes.
Who cares… really?
Full results. TOTAL FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES
BNP 69,710
UKIP 22,422
Sian Berry/Green 77,374
Christian Choice: 39,249
Left List: 16,796
BORIS JOHNSON/Con 1,043,761
KEN LIVINGSTONE/Labour 893,877
Winston McKenzie (ind): 5389
Matt O’Connor (English Democrats): 10,695
BRIAN PADDICK/libdem: 236,685
Because there was no one person with over 50% of the total vote, the two with the most (Ken and Bozza) went to second preference votes.
FINAL FINAL TOTAL:
Boris: 1,168,738
Ken: 1,028,966
So there we have it.
Boris Johnson is the next mayor of London.
Congratulations to the city of London on a great race. Very interesting. Commisserations to Labour. Anyone see Tony Benn earlier on BBC? I thought he gave the best analysis of the reasons behind labours downfall. He described the credit crunch as an economic 9/11.
Not like Tony Benn to underplay a financial crisis.. ;op
“the credit crunch as an economic 9/11″, indeed.
*shakes head*
Yeah now that you mention it, he did over play it a bit. But I’m too young to remember him back in the day pete;-)
Just as well some of us are still around then..
*harrumph*
Congratulations to the city of London on a great race.
It wasn’t the City of London that was voting:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
It was the Greater London area.
I think Boris did really well not to say something terrible, like perhaps by accident, or even on purpose. It was like a horse race, my cable box had to re-tune because I’d kicked the power, the putter was turned on, at the same time, it was a neck and neck thing
it could just so easily have been BBC 24, it wasn’t, the old Fujitsu, pushed harder, bleeped on, browser open, Slugger in the frame and I knew, I really did, Boris had won! in fact I had another window on the BBC news website before the telly was working.
well if the yanks can re-elect Dubya, anythings possible.
Im sure Tony Benn will be going home for a whiskey infront of his nice coal fire
Oh no he won’t, Republican Stones. Benn is strict Methodist TT. So it’s a large mug of tea for him. I’ll be drowning my sorrows with the hard stuff though.
Im sure Tony Benn will be going home for a whiskey infront of his nice coal fire
Posted by RepublicanStones on May 03, 2008 @ 01:00 AM
I am not normally one to point the finger but RS the above does show you to be a little lightweight on the political heavyweights. Tony Benn is perhaps one of the most high profile tea-totallers that i can think of and more so takes it so literally that rather than it being just a euphemism for abstention from alcohol he does actually drink inordinate amounts of tea !!
As for those who in times of political defeat actually would have sat down in front of a warm fire with a tall glass of whisky then I can think of no other than Margaret Thatcher who drank little else and when she did she could drink it in quantities that would have many a man foaming at the mouth, slackening at the sphincter and finding posture horizontal more possible than vertical.