Yet more maps

This time of the recent federal election in Germany.

Leading Party by Constituency - Direct Vote

Percentage vote (list) for the CDU and FDP

Percentage vote (list) for the SPD, Left and Greens

The more things change…

Neil Kinnock in 1983:

“If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.”

Seems that some things don’t change.

Rhodri Retires

I guess that this counts as the end of an era. His dreadful jokes and bad hair will be missed more than words can say. I do hope that whoever is elected as the next leader of Welsh Labour develops some similar idiosyncratic tendencies. Politics needs more eccentrics.

Also… it’s interesting to note that the story had dropped off the frontpage of the BBC News site by the end of the day – if the Mayor of London had announced his retirement this would not have happend. Typical geographic bias by the media once again.