The queen had better go back home soon.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scottish nationalists committed to independence from Britain became the biggest party in the Scottish parliament on Friday in elections which left a political headache for Prime Minister
Tony Blair's successor.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) ended 50 years of Labor dominance in Scotland in Thursday's vote and Labor suffered heavy losses in local council elections in England and lesser losses in elections to the devolved Welsh assembly.

With Blair expected to announce next week he is stepping down as prime minister after a decade in power, he leaves a poisoned chalice to finance minister Gordon Brown, the 56-year-old Scot who is almost certain to succeed him.

Brown must wrestle with the problem of how to revive support for the Labor Party, whose popularity has slumped because of opposition to the
Iraq war, a series of political scandals and a general sense of voter fatigue with the party....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/ts_nm/britain_elections_dc_22

conservative/liberal and what, besides independence from England, do they stand for?

hops a plane home.

And I hope she wears that natty hat, too.

too bad she doesn't give interviews.

Christopher Hitchens, Lou Reed, and the Dali Lama.

by god, I'd tune in for that.

UK is for getting outta Iraq?

This looks too disgustingly familiar..

"The Scottish vote was marred by hitches. Voters complained that tens of thousands of votes had been rejected because people were confused by complex ballot papers. Counting in some major constituencies was delayed by computer scanning glitches."