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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review » -
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] 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.