Thread: Huge loss for U.K.'s Labour in local elections
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Old 05-03-2008, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Larkinn View Post
Actually the "lefties" have had control since 1997. Oh and if "the people" wanted to kick the lefties out, they would have. They didn't. Despite the perception that Blair was Bush's poodle and got them involved in the idiocy that is Iraq, they still prefer Labour.
That would be why they just lost over 300 local seats and the Mayor of London. England does not work like us, they do not have set elections for their Central Government's high office. And the people have no direct involvement at all.
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