Local Election Result

We've recently had a by-election in Brighton (not my part of town) and
the results are here:
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1226134

Interesting when they're compared to 2007
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1165353#subtitle17

All parties seem to have remained pretty much constant except, if I'm
reading it correctly, the Lib-Dems who appear to have collapsed.

A sign of things to come?

 

Dropped by about two thirds from ****-all to a fraction of ****-all.

But I wouldn't put too much faith in that being a representative result
for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it's a by-election. They're notorious for kneejerk results -
see Glasgow East 2008/2010 for an illustration.

Secondly, it's early days in this government and the LDs are taking a
bit of a pasting as scapegoats for the heavy cuts. The general election
was only two months ago even if it seems like longer and the baying
hordes have had knives out for the LDs since hte coalition was
announced.

Thirdly, and perhaps most crucially, that ward is rock-solid Green, not
exactly holding a mirror up to the nation as a whole.

Labour were fucking lucky losing that election. If they'd retained power
and had to make the kind of cuts the coalition are being forced to make
right now, it would have sunk them for a generation or more. As it is
they might get to make a reappearance in four or five years. The cunts.

 

Lizzie Deane?

Oh, a different Lizzie Deane.

I'd vote for this one:

http://b5.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/02126/51/18/2126118115_l.jpg

 

Worth a squirt