Brit Labor party has big loss

Reuters/NY Times:

Britain's ruling Labour Party lost an election for a parliamentary seat in a traditional Labour stronghold, in a serious setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed on Friday.

Defeat in Thursday's poll in the Glasgow East constituency, which Labour won with a huge 13,500 majority at the 2005 election, will fuel Labour unhappiness with Brown's leadership and could lead to moves to oust him, some analysts believe.

The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) scored a dramatic victory by a slim 365-vote margin in Britain's third-largest city as voters turned against Labour in droves.

The result, following a series of other recent Labour election defeats, will strengthen expectations that Labour's 11 years in power may be nearing an end and that it could be defeated at the next general election, due by 2010.

"This SNP victory is not just a political earthquake -- it is off the Richter scale. It is an epic win and the tremors are being felt all the way to Westminster (the UK parliament)," SNP candidate John Mason said in his victory speech.

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I think the driving force behind many of the recent setbacks for Labor are their environmental policies are causing real pain. Their trash pickup policy is just bazaar. They are also imposing fees on many things to discourage use. Then there is all the nanny state nonsense as well as the failures on education which is plagued by goo-goo liberalism.

On top of that the Socts have some who are seeking independence.

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