By Election Results.

Labour have won the by-elections in Ealing Southall and in Blair's old constituency of Sedgfield.

Ealing Southall - Was a bit messy, i would have gone along to campaign for us, but couldn't as i had school and then was away on Duke of Edinburgh expedition in Scotland, but glad to see we won, as was expected. Was a really good kick in the nuts for good ol' Davie C.

Labour's majority was reduced by over 7% with a 5¼% swing to the Lib Dems, with the Tories again in 3rd, God it is good to see the Tories doing badly! The Greens had a decent result, finishing in fourth followed by George Galloway’s Respect Party (hate the man and i am so glad that he has been banned from the Commons for i think it is 17 days), UKIP, the Christian Party, an Independent, the Monster Raving Loony Party, English Democrats and two more Independents.

I was slightly surprised that the Fascist BNP didn't do better, as normally in places with a large migrant community, such as Ealing, you get a few racist, disenfranchised bigoted white van men sorts who turn to the far right. Glad to see that such people were in short supply, guess they may have voted for the EDP or some of the independents.


In Balir's old constituency we also won, as was expected, but with a big fall in our majority.

Phil Wilson, but Labour saw its majority drop by 14% with an 11% swing towards the Lib Dems who leapfrogged the Tories to take second place with the fascist BNP doing rather well coming in fourth place, rather worrying eh?

No prosecution over Cash for Peerages.

Yates of the Yard as he has been called has passed his findings on to th CPS and advised them not to prosecute. This brings to an end the 16 month saga, wherein all parties involved have had a trial by media.

Morally speaking, there should have been a trial, as wrongdoing and a large cover up occured. However, practically speaking, it was probably best that there wasn't a prosecution. Why? Because there is no way that any of those who would have been prosecuted would have got a fair trial. They have undergone a trial by media over the past 16 months which has basically prejudiced any possible trial.

I think it would have been a good thing for British politics had there been a trial, for it would have lead to a real acceleration and a real push towards an elected upper house, along with in the long run cleaning up politics, however, there would have been a short term disaster and crisis in politics as all the main parties would have been drawn into the mess, with the Tories being just as guilty as Labour of 'selling peerages' when they were in office.

Practically, any prosecution was impossible, morally there should have been one. So i am disappointed that proceedings have been stopped, yet at the same time i am glad that this mess and speculation is over and done.