'Blur' Drummer runs in local 'By-election' for Labour

Labor in literal terms can be considered physical work. But since you most likely don't live in the U.K., the Labour Party is actually a political party there. I don't live there either so I have absolutely no idea what they stand for, I just know that they are fairly popular and that former prime minister Tony Blair was one of them

They have been the governing party in the United Kingdom since 1997. They WERE very popular from 1997-2003 but that lessened after Tony Blair supported the Iraq War. In the last few months they have become slightly more popular because Gordon Brown, the current Prime Minister of Britain, is more experienced in economic matters than the leader of the Conservative Party (opposing party) and the British public trust him more to handle the recession, which we are all praying will end sometime soon.

They are the Left party, the Conservatives are the right, and the liberal democrats are the third-place, third-rate, scraggy in-the-middle 'other party' that nobody really cares about anymore.

while it's true that the liberal party has been ignored recently, since labour became 'new labour', it's become progressively more and more right-wing to the point that the liberal democrats are now the most liberal option of the 3 main parties.