Can we play you every week?

I'm really hoping that Labour give Tom Watson a senior role in all their campaigns from now on. Given that he's already getting hagiographic congratulations for engineering one of the largest ever swings against Labour (27%) who knows just what he could do at a general election? One wonders just how many seats he could turn from safe to marginal with personal attacks on opposition candidates and Tebbitesque rants about 'yobs', 'crackheads' and 'junkies'.

(Dave has a good post on this: 'I suppose “issues’ are Old Labour and for all I know the word is banned from the Millbank dictionary.' As I noted before, it seems mentioning your candidate's name is also banned - I think The Candidate Who Cannot Be Named got just two mentions during the entire campaign by his campaign manager. It's good to know that Labour felt confident enough to run a campaign on his merits)

It's a shame for Nicola - guess we'll have to wait until the next election to begin the super-secret Swansea University Liberal Democrats conspiracy to take over the world.

Also, Yvonne Ridley should be congratulated for doing so well for Respect in Leicester South. That might go against the grain for some of you, but repeated praise for her could mean that she gets enough of an ego-boost to stand up to Mr Indefatigability and his ego and split the nutters up. It's only a matter of time before it happens anyway, so why not help to speed it up?