"Tories snatch Crewe from Labour"

"Tories snatch Crewe from Labour", that's the BBC's headline re last night's by-election result. An interesting choice of word "snatch", sounds a bit sneaky or a bit of a fluke. Meanwhile the press report it differently:

The Telegraph - "Crewe and Nantwich by-election: Edward Timpson victory a blow for Gordon Brown" - a generally pro Conservative paper
The Times - "Disaster for Brown after Tory landslide" - a generally pro New-Labour paper
Sky - "Labour's Crewe Cut: 'Brown Doesn't Get It'" - a generally pro New-Labour media outlet
The Independent - "Labour's wipeout: Tories win Crewe and Nantwich by-election" - Pro Labour newspaper
The Guardian - "Brown facing meltdown as Labour crash in Crewe" - pro Labour newspaper
Sub headlines off "Tories overturn 7,000 majority" and "Swing indicates election disaster"
Daily Mail - "Tories win Crewe by a landslide leaving Brown in desperate fight for survival" - generally pro-Conservative paper albeit with an often pro-Gordon Brown editorial line
The Sun - - "Crewe cut for Gordon Brown" - a pro-Labour newspaper albeit one gradually moving to the winning side at the next election
The Mirror - "Labour suffer by-election defeat in Crewe" - pro-Labour paper - with the following as the first line "The Conservatives last night swept to a resounding victory in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election."

So that's just the BBC who choose to portray the Conservative victory as some sort of sneak win or fluke.


UPDATE:
The BBC have now "stealth edited" the headline so it now reads " Tories hail 'remarkable victory'", maybe the BBC have had to react to the fury of myself and others in the blogosphere.