Increased share of the vote; increased vote

Originally posted @ 2:26 am, Fri 7th Nov 2008

Labour has held Glenrothes, increasing our share of the vote from the 2005 General Election and increasing our vote from 2005.

The Tory party was reduced to a miserable 4% share of the vote.

As Winston Churchill might have said, "We may allow ourselves a short period of celebration".

Even during the Summer, generally the public were not blaming the Gov't for the economic problems. Now there is a recognition of the challenges Britain faces and of Gordon Brown's success in leading the global efforts to avoid a crash of the banks.

But we know there is still a lot to do - most particularly, to help people through the downturn and to try to mitigate the downturn.