"Labor gets a drubbing at British polls"
"by Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post | May 3, 2008
LONDON - Journalist-turned-politician Boris Johnson was elected London mayor yesterday, capping his Conservative Party's nationwide stomping of the ruling Labor Party in a rebuke to the leadership of Prime Minister Gordon Brown....
Johnson, who becomes London's first Conservative mayor, soundly defeated two-term Labor incumbent Ken Livingstone on a day when Labor finished an anemic third nationally behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats - Labor's worst local results in 40 years.
Analysts said the party's dismal national showing was largely due to shaky public confidence in Brown, who took office last summer. As the British economy suffers fallout from the US subprime mortgage crisis, Brown's approval ratings have sagged to 28 percent amid fears that he lacks leadership and direction....
Nothing like a "terror attack" by "Al-CIA-Duh" to help those ratings, right, Gordo?
Please see: May Day Memories: British Patsies
In elections for more than 4,000 local seats across England and Wales, the Conservatives finished with 44 percent of the popular vote, far ahead of the Liberal Democrats with 25 percent and Labor with 24 percent, according to a BBC analysis....
Brown's challenge now is to keep Cameron and the Conservatives from ending Labor's 11 years in power...."
Yeah, Gordo NEEDS a "TERROR ATTACK!"
You HAVE BEEN WARNED, Britons!!!!
