Well, with all seats bar Kensington declared (yes,
Labour are in with a chance of winning Tory safe seat Kensington, which has gone to several recounts), Labour sit on 261, up 32 seats from the start of the election, with the Tories denied an outright majority on 317 — having lost a net 13 seats.
Not exact matches
They warned a packed audience that
Labour is in danger
of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect
with white working class voters
in historically
Labour constituencies if it
is to have any
chance of winning power.
Is this a sign
of Tory confidence, that they now believe they
are in with a
chance of winning a solid
Labour seat, or panic that Lib Dem targets have fallen out
of reach?
I do not think it will get interesting two years for the Tories to pull the Elephant out
of the hat, I suspect Clegg and his party will not get another
chance to
be in power, will
labour win the next election, nope not
with Miliband and Balls.
Had we pressed ahead
with our plans for a mostly or wholly elected Lords there would have
been a second chamber election mid-way though this parliamentary term, giving us a
chance to put a new
Labour agenda to the public and —
in the event
of a
win — prove to ourselves and to the country that we can
be election winners again.
«David's breadth
of leadership skills and experience, combined
with his clear vision
of where he wants to take the party and Britain also, offers our best
chance of winning again
in Norwich, Swindon and Milton Keynes, without which there won't
be another
Labour government.»
If the
Labour party — a major controlling proportion
of it — doesn't rapidly accept that the only
chance to make amends
is to stand
in the centre ground, shoulder to shoulder
with, listening to, working for the British people, and fight and
win elections from there, then it will cease to exist and it will deserve to die.