The Conservatives have gained Bexley and Hammersmith and Fulham, two of their key targets in London, from Labour. The news will fuel pessimism among Labour bloggers who are expecting a poor result overall. The Ministry of Truth says things are looking "a bit ropey" even before most results come in from London, where it predicts "things are likely to get really dicey".
Bloggers4Labour suggests "the time is nigh (if not now)" for the prime minister to resign. A view shared by Labour rebel and former health secretary, Frank Dobson. He blamed Labour's loss of Camden council, which it has held for 35 years, on "local manifestations of bad government policy" on the NHS and housing. Never one to mince words, Dobbo claimed today's cabinet reshuffle would prove nothing more than a "re-arranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic" and said what the government really needed was "new management".
