Wales

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Wales was one of Labour's best regions, again. Union membership is not about to collapse in Wales and if you think it is you must be on crack.
The Tories won back two seats they should never, ever lose, and one which they should hold most of the time.

Not impressive *at all*... they couldn't even win Cardiff North back...

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Bad night for Plaid Cymru, wasn't it?

They deserve it for using the slogan "Blair lied, vote Plaid."

I want to use this oppertunity to thank the ever bloody minded voters of the Isle of Anglesey for re-electing a fantastic M.P and making the pollsters, the pundits and Plaid Cymru look like bloody fools.

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What was that independent candidate that took 15% of Mona's voters (you wanna give the island a different name? - try Latin instead of Norse. ) standing on?

He was a former Tory (list) AM who got taken off the list in 2003 for being too independent minded.

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Hain has said that Law will be let back into the Party if he votes with Labour most of the time in the Assembly and in Westminster.

O/c he didn't *quite* put it like that, but the meaning was clear.

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He would probably be quite a loyal backbencher compared to some.

True enough; it's in the interests of both sides to have him let back in; Law knows he can't really do a lot as an Indepedent, and Welsh Labour would rather their majority in Cardiff Bay be official again rather than de facto. I don't remember Law being especially left wing either.

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Yep

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He will probably back in the party by conference season.

There's a good chance of that; fairly soon but not *too* soon

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I'll have a look now. Don't think all the metro counties have been finished though

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The Metro hearings are taking a long time because some of the proposed changes are either: a) unpopular b) blatently stupid.
More of a than b though.