Another chapter in the sad tale of "Tony Blair's Legacy" unfolds as predicted on Mudcat.

Scottish Nationalists have taken one of the "safest" Labour seats in the country.
Glasgow East a deprived area, with huge numbers of long term unemployed, health issues on a massive scale, life expectancy of 62 and wholesale dependency on benefits, has turned against the Labour Party for the first time in my memory.

The change has been described as a political earthquake which has moved off the Richter Scale.

But....for the more politically sensitive among us, the tremors were felt before the start of the Iraq War, when people first began to realise what the Labour Party had become.
The shocks became stronger as Blair was forced to leave office and electorate's disgust with the whole corrupt and hypocritical Labour machine became apparent.

Over a year ago Mr Blair toured the world in search of a "Legacy".
I said then that his "legacy" would be as "The man who caused the break up of the UK". This now seems to behappening, with the SNP poised to make massive gains in the next election.

It would be easy to feel sorry for Prime Minister Brown, who is reaping what has been sown by Blair, but never forget Brown was as much a part of the "New Labour Project" as Blair, and supported him in his Iraqi adventure.

When the electorate turn against a government, that government is finished....this has happened to Labour, but weep no tears for them, they have been the architects of their own misfortunes