Labour win with there majority reduced.
Tories second with slightly better result.
Lib Dems third with slightly better result.

*yawn*

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What's this i hear bed? Word has it you and Pam are sleeping together.

Galloway - the anti-war 'Respect' candidate - hammered Tony's candidate and overturned what was a Labour margin of 10,000 votes to win. Shows what the people think (not that THAT matters).

Gerry Adams first to be returned in Northern Ireland.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

I am an italian, but I know london.

in the constituency of galloway 45% of the electors are islamic.

Several things came out of the UK Election I don't see commented on here.

1. Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Secretary of the Treasury equivalent) is pushing Blair to resign sooner rather than later so he can be the Prime Minister. He is backed by some of the Labour MPs, who in many cases ran for reelection by ignoring Tony Blair, rather than pointing to him. This tells me that Blair is a definite lame duck.

2. Howard, the leader of the Conservatives, will resign soon. Maybe they will finally choose a competent leader (but their track record since Thatcher argues against it).

3. Several moderates were chucked out in Northern Ireland and replaced by hard-liners, especially among the Protestants. Sinn Fein managed to hold its own, which given its recent problems is also surprising. This does not spell good news for making the peace accord there work.

4. With the right sort of election result next time (weaker Labor and stronger Conservatives), the Liberal Democrats could actually hold the balance of power in a minority government situation. The way the Conservatives have been going on, though, this seems unlikely.