Bad news in Edinburgh South

From Guardian's aristotle:

The 2005 general election Votes Share %
Nigel Griffiths, Labour 14,188 33.2
Marilyne MacLaren, Liberal Democrat 13,783 32.3
Gavin Brown, Conservative 10,291 24.1
Graham Sutherland, Scottish National Party 2,635 6.2
Steve Burgess, Green Party 1,387 3.3
Morag Robertson, Scottish Socialist Party 414 1.0


Labour majority: 405
Time of declaration: May 06 2005 03:02
Turnout: 70.0 %

So close (only 405 majority), and yet so far. On the other hand, can't pretend I would've been opening the fizzy wine had Marilyne won, either. I'd only really have been happy with Steve Burgess or Morag Robertson anyway.

Fuck politics for a game of soldiers, and may Nigel hate every minute of the next 4 years for his bad conscience.



Addendum

The Basa's photo from edinburghsucks reveals why Nigel's window remains pristine and whole. It's the CCTV camera mounted on his doorway, and pointed straight at the area outside his office. Bollocks. And WTF didn't we all engage in a little postal ballot fraud to rid ourselves of this prat.