Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Election blow for Labour
Still the horrors pour in. A good example of the rare case when Field Marshal Haig was wrong about “the situation never being as good or bad as first reports indicate”. The whipping is now up to 330 seats lost. Ouch! Pleasantly, though, it seems that the widely advertised far-right surge has vanished: the BNP lost 3 out of 5 seats, UKIP got a huge 2. Their main achievement seems to have been walloping an ANL protestor and getting arrested.