Quick thoughts on the British election
I managed to avoid the time-suck that would have been following the campaign, and went to the theater last night so didn't even follow the results streaming in.
- Get used to saying "Prime Minister Gordon Brown" -- it'll be happening soon enough
- A smaller but still very workable majority will be good for the Labour government. There's nothing so bad for a government as complacency that the major opposition party is an embarrassment to itself.
- Long-term predictions are a fool's errand but I'll make one: Labour will win again in 2009/10.
- Good on the Liberal Democrats for their best showing in 76 years.
- It won't be long before Helen Clark is claiming that this bodes well for her own upcoming election. Sound like BS to you? It is, but I don't think any Labour leaders believe the trans-national Labourism they spout whenever a Labour party wins.
Posted by robe0419 at May 6, 2005 8:06 AM
