For an indepth review of the results check out this page<\/a> at the Beeb.<\/p>\n

My home seat is a safe labour seat so not much to report on that front. The labour candidate got 50% of the vote which was only a few points down on the last election. <\/p>\n

My one prediction proved true, though I must say I didn’t expect Howard to announce his upcoming resignation.<\/p>\n

It looks like Labour will have a majority in the mid-sixties. Perhaps this will encourage some of those back bench labour MPs to be a little more aggressive in opposing things like ID cards. (The biggest waste of money on the horizon.)<\/p>\n

Current temperature 66F\/19C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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