The election result was a complete surprise. Nobody would have expected it. A Labour MP was elected. Here in Manor Park. In East Ham Constituency. In Newham. I'm not capable of sarcasm - I'm just a dumbass.
It's like football where there is ony one football team.
It's like a horse race with only one horse.
Labour, Labour, Labour. Democracy doesn't have a chance here, does it?
The BBC website has the most beautiful results and in case that doesn't live forever, here is the beef of 2005:
| Name | Party | 2005 Votes |
% | +/- % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Timms | Labour | 21,326 | 53.9 | -19.2 |
| Abdul Khaliq Mian | Respect-Unity Coalition | 8,171 | 20.7 | +20.7 |
| Sarah Macken | Conservative | 5,196 | 13.1 | -3.6 |
| Ann Haigh | Liberal Democrat | 4,296 | 10.9 | +3.9 |
| David Bamber | Christian Peoples Alliance | 580 | 1.5 | +1.5 |
| Majority | 13,155 | 33.2 | ||
| Turnout | 39,569 | 50.7 | -1.6 | |
It's nice to know that there are still so many people in Newham who will vote for the same party until the very day they die, no matter what that party does. It's almost like being in China's pseudo-communist One-Party State.
The big whoopy-shit excitement in this election was the "Respect" party. Respect, of course, is a beginner's option on how to deal with so many different types of people in Newham. So many types, that since you will never be able to speak all their languages, you can try observing them with "Respect", even if you can't conduct a more sophisticated human transaction, one that might enrich both of you in Spirit, Love, Wealth, and Health?
In a population which is less rich (than most parts of Britain) in money, education, inteligence, sophistication, and other Blessings of birth, all we could hope for was "Respect" from a George Galloway-led Party?
Honestly, if you're the dominant party (i.e. Labour in Newham), and you're going to have a protest vote, at least be intelligent enough to groom your opposition by nurturing them until they're an effective and worthy competition. Because that's good for everybody, good for democracy, and not just being selfish, selfish, selfish.
It's useful to compare 2005 with the previous result in 2001, which is available from the Electoral Commission, in a dowloadable PDF, which will tell you that the results then were:
| Name | Party | 2001 Votes |
% | +/- % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Timms | Labour | 27,241 | 73.1 | +8.5 |
| P.J. Campbell | Conservative | 6,209 | 16.7 | +0.6 |
| B. Fox | Liberal Democrat | 2,600 | 7.0 | +0.5 |
| R. Finlayson | Socialist Labour | 783 | 2.1 | +2.1 |
| J. Paridhal | U.K.I.P. | 444 | 1.2 | +1.2 |