now that's what I *call* a result

[ramtops]

Willie Rennie	12,391	35.8%	+15.6
Labour	10,591	30.6%	-16.8
SNP	7,261	21.0%	+ 2.1
Conservative	2,702	7.8%	- 2.5

Swing Labour to Lib Dems	16.2%
Swing Conservative to Lib Dems	9.1%
Swing SNP to Lib Dems	6.8%

well done, Willie Rennie, MP - and his campaign team

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Too damn right. My joy in seeing Labour's collective ass kicked every which way is unconfined, this morning, though PK's was possibly slightly tempered by my shrieking the news at him before he'd properly woken up. However, I do believe it got his attention.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I do believe it got his attention.
I can see that it might.

[aca.livejournal.com]

I find it most annoying when our archaic voting system produces such inconclusive results, don't you.

:)

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if the LibDems are now being perceived as the party of the left when compared with Labour and the Tories.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly hope so - that's what we *are*.

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

{nods}

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Compared to NuLab, Oswald Mosley's "I was a man of the Left" speech doesn't sound so ridiculous

I don't know what makes me happier - a good kicking for NuLab, or the indication that the recent leadership infighting doesn't seem to have done much damage.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

well, delicious as the result is, we can't put *too* much into a bye-election result, I suppose.

nevertheless, I'm particularly enjoying the fact that Gordon Brown is now represented by a LibDem :)

[lovingboth]

Was not he - guess which character I cannot get to work on this Czech keyboard! - an MP for somewhere else a few years back?