Regular readers may notice another change on the sidebar (if the code managed to work, it looks fine on review to me, but eh, that could just be my comp), I have signed up for advertising sidebars LOL, yes, I have changed from Anakin amateur to Lord Vader semi professional. Basically due to the fact that I get so many search hits for pinball machines, might as well direct those poor souls to somewhere more appropriate than my mindless blog :) So it is a public service and if ever I get a thousand hits I might make some money out of things as well, win win all around.
Am just trawling through what has come up as the best advertising links for my past few entries, and one of the links regarding the British election comes up as www.thankyoutony.com, which is a site where you can thank Tony Blair for supporting the invasion of Iraq. Piqued my interest, had a look, and all I can say is that the advertising links do not necessarily pertain to editorial policy on this blog :) but could be something for everyone who bounces in and out here, so keeping all the punters happy, not just the wimpy liberal ones (such as myself, that last comment was said in self deprecation, so please don't be offended).
And yes, surprise surprise, Tony Blair won the election. Or more to the point perhaps, the Labour candidates in 324 seats won the election to form a majority, what with the father of that dead soldier candidate speaking his mind as Tony was winning his own electorate and George Galloway winning on an anti-Iraq platform (clarifying, anti Iraq WAR, not against the country itself), and the former Labour guy winning as an independent when some Blairite out of towner was selected for his electorate. Wasn't a good night for Tony...
And all the coverage about how the Tories aren't breaking out of their heartland support of low thirty percentage rating, and how Michael Howard did an OK job but is bailing, it doesn't quite explain to me how a difference of basically three percent can give you another 130 seats over the other party? And yes, the Tories didn't even get to the 209 seats Labour got after the 1983 election, that party's nadir of recent times, but they did 35 times better than the 2001 election - all that effort last time around to get one extra seat... now if only they could do a more positive campaign next time around.
And yes, this was actually a three party election, so all due credit to the Lib Dems - as I have read in some opinion pieces, Tony Blair won't be around next time, and maybe, just maybe, Iraq will be in a better position, so it could just be a one election thing, but at the moment, all credit to the Lib Dems...
Next up on the British electoral agenda, the European constitution vote - and yes, I am too much of a political junkie LOL. And next up in the English speaking world at least is the New Zealand election, yes, we are the pipsqueak of the English speaking world, but still, there you go. Unless, of course, the NDP and Libs can't hold things together in Ottawa...
More soon, have to recharge my newsgathering batteries :)
Pauly
Am just trawling through what has come up as the best advertising links for my past few entries, and one of the links regarding the British election comes up as www.thankyoutony.com, which is a site where you can thank Tony Blair for supporting the invasion of Iraq. Piqued my interest, had a look, and all I can say is that the advertising links do not necessarily pertain to editorial policy on this blog :) but could be something for everyone who bounces in and out here, so keeping all the punters happy, not just the wimpy liberal ones (such as myself, that last comment was said in self deprecation, so please don't be offended).
And yes, surprise surprise, Tony Blair won the election. Or more to the point perhaps, the Labour candidates in 324 seats won the election to form a majority, what with the father of that dead soldier candidate speaking his mind as Tony was winning his own electorate and George Galloway winning on an anti-Iraq platform (clarifying, anti Iraq WAR, not against the country itself), and the former Labour guy winning as an independent when some Blairite out of towner was selected for his electorate. Wasn't a good night for Tony...
And all the coverage about how the Tories aren't breaking out of their heartland support of low thirty percentage rating, and how Michael Howard did an OK job but is bailing, it doesn't quite explain to me how a difference of basically three percent can give you another 130 seats over the other party? And yes, the Tories didn't even get to the 209 seats Labour got after the 1983 election, that party's nadir of recent times, but they did 35 times better than the 2001 election - all that effort last time around to get one extra seat... now if only they could do a more positive campaign next time around.
And yes, this was actually a three party election, so all due credit to the Lib Dems - as I have read in some opinion pieces, Tony Blair won't be around next time, and maybe, just maybe, Iraq will be in a better position, so it could just be a one election thing, but at the moment, all credit to the Lib Dems...
Next up on the British electoral agenda, the European constitution vote - and yes, I am too much of a political junkie LOL. And next up in the English speaking world at least is the New Zealand election, yes, we are the pipsqueak of the English speaking world, but still, there you go. Unless, of course, the NDP and Libs can't hold things together in Ottawa...
More soon, have to recharge my newsgathering batteries :)
Pauly
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