Good news

My father had his operation today, all went as planed and he is recovering well and will remain in the ICU a little while. heading down to see him tommorrow, i feel more relived than ive ever felt.

Election reaction ( see i keep my promises)
Figured that no one who reads this cares what i think about the elections but hell ill give i a go . oh and tomorrow i will do my reaction on Tony Blair and his legacy.

British Elections

sperated into three sections, english concils, welsh assembly and scotish parliment. Firstly i will deal with the english concils, Conservatives Gained a considerable ammount of seats, labour and lib dem lost seats. Whilst if you look at the raw figures for the elections with the tories on 40% of the vote this looks like a massive swing to the right and the tories will win the general election by a huge margin, however there are a couple of things to consider . Fristly the Conservatives have always been seen as party of local goverment and therefore have always done well with the concil elections, Secoundly the labour has now been in power for 3 consective terms, however well things are going a goverment is allways likly to be unpopular because people are eger for change. and Thridly the Labour had a very simillar result in the last set of local elections but still went on to win the general election convincingly. So the broader picture is a bad night for the labour party , but no where near as bad as expected and a good night for the Tories but far away from the break through which the wanted. The lib dems are a seperate issue again, coming of the back of a decent ( if not spectacular) general election and with growing unpopularity of the Iraq war you would expect gains , however a serious lack of leadership , aswell as credablity at the moment so them lose seats overall. i imaging several of those within the party are thinking of a leadership change less that a year into Sir Minge Campell's rain ( not how you spell that word but you get the message).

Wales again was a similar story with some 3 seats lost by labour and 3 won by nationalist plaid cymru, no real change with labour the largest part with 26 memeber ( out of a 60 seat chamber) but they will have to share power with the lib dem's this time round.

Scotland was the biggest story, with the SNP winning by one seat. However no majority meant that they had to form a collelistion , however nobody seems to like them, the Lib Dems ( the only likely bed fellows) refused because the SNP insit on having a 2010 referendum on inderpendence. So instead the SNP are going to do somthing unheard of in british politics , for a minority administion. this means that they willbe the ruling party , however as the do not have an outright marjoirty of the parliment passing legislation will be tricky in particallar regrading things like inderpendence. Whislt in the context of british politics this is revolutionary it is the norm in much of western europe. So again bad night for labour however the expected swing was labour to lose by 20 odd seats so , again not as bad as it might have been.

So to recap... Tories- Close but no Cigar... maybe you should have some policy... just an idea.
Labour- Bad ... but i dont have to make a deal with god not to let the tories in ....yet
Lib Dem- Dear god sack Minge... and how come we only get power when theres a collelition


The french elections- The right wing Sarkozy won..... ( somthing like 53% to 47%) which was as predicted , i think he will be a very devisive charector in politics in the coming years as he tries to reform frances failing economy ( think male thacther) As for the socalists i think the main problem was the Royal wasnt the right woman for the job, she was gaff prone and came across as fake. and thats all the thought provoking discussion you are gonna get on france


Tomorrow ( if i have time ) Tony. It's 4 in the morning and my spelling and grammer are awful. but i will check back and edit this..... maybe

Ummm Maybe proper updates on the way

yes, i will by the end of the night have written a dual ellection specail. After an important week in both british and french politics i will update a long-ish but hopefully not boring ( although most will swicth off entirely) look at the weeks events. In other news to combat me inablity to sleep and my boredem i am contemplating branching out into other media. at first i thought i could do an auido blo/ political pod cast . but i figured that would probably suck, so instead i am thinking of maybe an idiots guide to politics on youtube. it would give me an accuse to sharpen my video editing skills before having to do the movie. ( yet another pet prodject of mine) who knows... maybe if i can be bothered

The old bar blog

Horrah , there wireless in the old bar. Im here doing research of my curent essay on the WTO. Endless PDF's of the internet. but i thought i would get a quick pint in and watch the chelsea game on the big screen while im here. but i am doing work.... i promise. Went to the geogre last night with mono, ben, chris, and DC. twas night some of the loads came back and we plays some wii spots and watched some anime, dindt get to sleep till four not a ideal preparation of a day of essaying. I promise in depth anaylisis of both the french elections and the british ones as soon as i get some spare time.... keep you eye peeled..... pr your mouses or whatever