Friday, May 02, 2008
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).
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 08:25 PMAccording to the Guardian’s live-blogging effort.
After, I think 5 confirmed constituencies,
9.42: Ken has apparently won the majority of first preference votes in Brent & Harrow. It’s going to have to be a pretty big majority to make a difference now, but it’s still something to hold onto for Ken and his fans.
Of course, according to the cameras roaming the streets looking for experts, most of Ken’s fans are now holding on to something already. Mainly a stiff drink.
9.47: New numbers!
Boris Johnson: 378,239 votes
Ken Livingstone: 343,770 votes.Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 09:52 PM7 of 14 constituencies declared.
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris Johnson: 46%
Ken Livingstone: 40%
Brian Paddick: 9%Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 10:29 PM10.55pm: 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.
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:03 PMAin’t been watching and hate the word “Twittering” but looks like a done deal ?
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:05 PM11 of 14 constituencies declared.
FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES:
Boris Johnson: 804, 439 42%
Ken Livingstone: 709, 929 37%
Brian Paddick: 187,158 10%Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:28 PMOnly a few minutes away for a result!!!!
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:33 PM10.45pm: 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.
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:42 PM11.39pm: 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..
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:47 PMLooking like it Pete.
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:47 PMHere we go. And it’s Boris alright. It’s official.
Boris got over a million. 1,430,761 votes.
Posted by on May 02, 2008 @ 11:53 PMWho cares… really?
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:01 AMFull 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: 236,685Because 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: 1,028,966So there we have it.
Boris Johnson is the next mayor of London.
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:05 AMCongratulations 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.
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:09 AMNot like Tony Benn to underplay a financial crisis.. ;op
“the credit crunch as an economic 9/11”, indeed.
*shakes head*
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:12 AMYeah 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;-)
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:14 AMJust as well some of us are still around then..
*harrumph*
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:19 AMCongratulations 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.
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:48 AMI 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.
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:50 AMwell 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
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 01:00 AMOh 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.
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 12:23 PMIm 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.
Posted by on May 03, 2008 @ 09:45 PM
