As the Dust Settles

As the lights go out on another General Election there are, as far as I can see, only losers. A very strange situation indeed.

Labour, or more accurately, Tony Blair suffered a kicking but not to the level that some commentators would have you believe. A 66 seat majority is a perfectly satisfactory result. Enough for the Government to proceed with but close enough for them to pause first. Tony will go whenever and Gordon Brown will take up the reigns of power. The danger is that the backbenchers get all panicky and rebel against Tony and force him out. The only reason many of them have a career as an MP is because of Tony and they should tread carefully.

Tory Fascists: Made inroads into Labour's majority but, lets be honest, most gains were as a result of protest votes from people switching to the Lib Dems. With the anger at Tony and the Iraq war a properly organised Tory party could have probably won a narrow victory, but they remain a clueless rabble shovelling in the darkest corners for votes based on obscene policies. They have to reinvent themselves and jettison anyone tarred with the brush of Thatcher if they are ever again to challenge. I hate them but this country needs a strong opposition and at the moment the only opposition seems to be coming from within the Government ranks.

Lib Dems: If they were to punt Charlie for a dynamic, charismatic leader and work their balls off they could make a breakthrough. But they won't do either.

Angus:(where I live) SNP hold so we wave goodbye to Sandy Bushby (tory fascist) as she buggers off back to Perthshire. Not all the farmers and newly arrived English folk could get her in.

Northern Ireland (where I come from) The effective destruction of the UUP (with one sole survior in North Down, my home constituency) can only be bad news for everyone. I was never a fan of David Trimble as he had a reputation as a hardliner but, to his credit, upon taking the leadership he did more than any other Unionist to take the chance of peace and share power with the Nationalists. That the deviant, murdering scum of Adams and McGuiness et al have seen off the two mainstream parties (UUP and the nationalist SDLP) while not giving up one bullet nevermind a gun in 11 years of the so called peace process should be explained by the powers that be in Dublin, London and their chief supporters in Washington. I hope that Paisley's DUP are not permanently the leaders of Unionism in Norn Iron but until the deviants are backed into a corner from which they cannot escape I see little change in the political polarisation of my country, this saddens me.

The sooner we get back to discussion and action on the only, single issue that matters, the Economy (or lack thereof) the better. Thatcher's legacy still haunts this country. Thanks to that insane bitch we have no industry of our own to speak of and this fact has to be addressed if we're to have any sort of future. Gordon Brown will be the man who has the chance to build a lasting legacy, but when?