That's 37% of the ones who actually voted.

OVERALL:

39% didn't vote
23% voted labour
etc

So 23% of the people who are registered to vote, voted Labour. Not much of a mandate.

Brown's in charge
BILL JACOBS AND IAN SWANSON

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown emerged from yesterday’s General Election as the real British Prime Minister.

Although Tony Blair was celebrating a historic and unprecedented third successive Labour victory, it was clear that much of his power had ebbed to his Downing Street neighbour.
 http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=488822005

Blair declared winner in Sedgefield amidst reports of fraud
 http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/90/36/

20,000 missing votes heighten Birmingham postal fraud fears
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19809-1600 737,00.html

Postal vote to be probed
 http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=488522005

BEGG SEAT POLL PROBE
 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=1548 6025&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=begg-seat-p oll-probe-name_page.html

Postal voting fraud is widespread, Straw told
 http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n ews/2005/05/06/nelecstraw.xml

Police ordered to stop investigating vote rigging in Blair's constituency
 http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/82/36/

‘Taint’ in polls to mother of parliament
There are charges that many votes have been stolen. Political parties are set to demand that suspect results should be overturned.
 http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may62005/ foreign174556200555.asp

John Humphrys claims his postal vote was stolen
By Louisa McLennan, Times Online

The radio journalist John Humphrys and television presenter Mariella Frostrup have complained that they were prevented from voting yesterday due to alleged failures with the postal voting system.

Mr Humphrys, the presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, revealed that he had gone to the polling station, only to be told that he couldn’t vote because someone had already applied for a postal vote in his name.
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19809-1600 918,00.html

Voting fraud exposed in Bethnal Green and Bow
 http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=762

New postal vote safeguards urged
Postal votes were requested by around five million voters
Election watchdogs have demanded new safeguards to prevent postal voting fraud which they say has undermined confidence in the electoral system.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/f rontpage/4520893.stm

Of course, they'll pretend to be concerned about the NEXT election, and leave this one be ...

With 23% of the eligible population, Blair has no mandate
This is no democracy - the Count Dracula vote was 20%
The 39% non-voters surely have the burgeoning mandate
This is all lying crap

Who the fuck runs or edits indymedia now, why the hell do you allow people to post drivel like this (no wait let me guess, its 'sooo libertarian' to tolerate shite like this).
I mean this article isn't news, its nothing other than some liberal spewing his personal minute by minute thoughts into an incoherent rant. Its an abolsute disgrace that it isn't deleted.

And as for whoever wrote this, well in case you hadn't noticed new labout haven't brought us unlimited economic properity, we don't all geta car in the garage and eat at the carvary or whatever, why don't you try walking round a london hosuing estate or sunderland city centre before talking this sort of shite.

And who else did you think was going to get elected anyway? The lib dems? Jesus, as if they'd be any better, in fact i'm quite sure they'd be a whole lot worse considering how anti-trade union they are.