The British general election of May 2005 generated much discussion, with sentiments of despair in some quarters and jubilation in others.

Unless voters demand change, the ballot box will not allow them to express their will democratically.

Britain’s General Election And The Power Of The Anti-War Vote.

Blair may be here to stay after all.

Mark Steel on Labour dissilusionment

In the general election, people took a risk and didn’t succumb to the bully media who told them the sky would fall if they voted their dissent. The same gamble is needed in the US, to end the Iraq debacle.

Britain’s May 5 general election included polls for 18 Westminster seats in British-ruled Northern Ireland. The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters.

The alternative economic strategy at the heart of the Green Party manifesto.

Reviewing the Respect Manifesto.

Tony Blair gets a hiding from the electorate over Iraq and still gets to form the next government

Britain’s Labour government has won a third term in office, but on a massively reduced majority. The May 5 poll is being described as the “Iraq election” because of the millions who registered their disaffection and hostility to Prime Minister Tony Blair and his party.

A British reporter from America explains why Britons will vote for a guy named ‘Brown’ – so Blair can’t lose.

In recent days, New Labour apologists such as The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee have been berating the liberal middle classes about their duty to back the Blair government.

Faced with defection over Iraq and a falling turnout, Labour blames the electorate rather than its own policies.

The Conservatives show no sign in stopping their campaign of fear in a desperate bid to regain power. The strategy is simple: scapegoat those who are different to us.

The central question of the election is whether we can trust the judgement, or the word, of the man who is now asking us to vote him back in Downing Street for a whole third term.

A challenge more solemn and serious than usual.

He is following in Martin Bell’s footsteps, but with a bigger target: Tony Blair himself.

An army of independent, single-issue candidates is challenging the party machines in Britain’s general election campaign. A new age of guerrilla politics dawns.

Truth can be subverted, but for millions of decent Britons the subversion is over, and the penny has finally dropped.