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Updated 12.40pm
DAVID CAMERON IS back at Number 10 Downing Street this afternoon, after a surprise victory in the UK general election.
Labour’s Ed Miliband, the Liberal Democrats’ Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage of UKIP have all stepped down from their party leaderships.
It had been billed as the most unpredictable British general election in decades, with many polls indicating it was too close to call. But as the results came in, throughout the early hours, it became clear the Tories were on course for victory. At lunchtime, it was confirmed that they had reached enough seats to claim a slim majority.
And after gains throughout England and Wales, the BBC is now projecting the party will be returned with 331 seats in the Commons.
After a visit to Buckingham Palace and an audience with the Queen, Cameron said in a speech back at Downing Street, that he would draw on the country’s “unrivalled skills and creativeness” to “build an even prouder future” and an even greater Britain.
Sending his congratulations, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he looked forward to his next meeting with the Prime Minister “to build on our very close relationship and to continue our work on sustaining and developing the strong and positive relationship that exists between our two countries”.
I look forward to renewing our engagement on the full range of issues of common interest to the UK and Ireland. I take the opportunity to extend my congratulations to all those who were elected, including those in Northern Ireland.
Here’s what you need to know so far:
Just after noon, Miliband gave his resignation speech, thanking Labour supporters for their hard work on the campaign.
“I just this party aged 17, I never dreamed I would lead it,” he said, telling the party’s members that they had “come back before and will come back again”.
Clegg, meanwhile, said history would look kindly on the Liberal Democrats performance in government, in his resignation speech.
“Fear and grievance have won. Liberalism has lost,” the former Deputy Prime Minisiter said of the election result.
Meanwhile, Farage failed to gain a Westminster seat in Thanet South, despite a strong showing. Conceding to Conservative Craig Mackinlay, he gave an upbeat speech – but later confirmed he would be following through on his campaign pledge, and quitting as leader.
Former Conservative MP Douglas Carswell will be UKIP’s only presence in the Commons as a result, and the 44-year-old is now odds-on to take over at the helm.
With reporting by Daragh Brophy and Sinéad O’Carroll. This post will be updated throughout the day.
*326 seats are needed for an overall majority, but in practice this can be achieved with 323 seats as Sinn Féin MPs don’t take up their seats and the Speaker of the House doesn’t vote.
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Meanwhile in New York, David Milliband was last seen breaking his ar*e laughing maniacally down 5th Avenue as he headed towards a cutlery store to buy a set of knives to send to his brother, Ed.
Not at all. He’s on the flight back to the UK now to contest the Labour leadership election.
This sets the stage for a Fg majority in 2016. The left have been defeated by the people.
The Steve Miller Band wept silently.
Whose face have you stolen today .
A victory for the selfish, ignorant and socio-pathic, although the UK electoral system does not require or often produce a majority of the votes cast to hand absolute power to one party.
This culture has been much nutured by most main mainstream media over the years (notably Murdoch’s empire) and of course works very well indeed to divide and rule, further enhancing the ability of Capital owning elites to exploit the ignorant masses. Regressing back – for ordinary citizens, with increasingly vulnerable and insecure livelyhoods – to what most of these elites regard as their historic Golden Era – the 19th century.
We see this attitude in FG especially, with a prime example Michael Noonan’s disgusting and deliberate smear on the jobless.
Noonan knows perfectly well that labelling ‘some’ jobless as workshy, the publicity/propaganda effect is to smear them all.
Thus, the government’s (and Eurozone authorities’) failure to address mass unemployment, continuing 7+ yrs after the Banking pyramid bust, is to be swept away from view by demonising the victims.
What a truly disgusting human being Noonan is. But then, these elite classes and their Landlords’ Agents have always been raised as socio-paths.
Lolfest thanks for that David
Different people Damien
Michael Noonan was right Mike. SOME people on social welfare would prefer to remain unemployed than to work. Even Triple A Waffler agrees.
I think you miss the point Aquinas – likely deliberately as you repeat the smear.
Using the expression ‘some’ conveys no real meaning or factual expression whatever. The purpose of making such statements is to imply that the numbers are particularly significant for propaganda purposes.
Noonan, nor anybody else, has any credible evidence to even estimate a figure.
But we do have very good data on the number of Job Vacancies, and can also say that a great many of these vacancies are purely temporary, not actual additional jobs, as short ‘gaps’ are created when people move from one job to another.
The Job Vacancies numbers are completely dwarfed by the people on the live register, never mind those ineligble to claim benefits (eg spouse working etc) or others not counted seeking but seeking either work or full time hours.
So, whether the ‘some’ referred to by selfish socio-paths like Noonan and yourself represents a significant number of jobless, we cannot in fact establish anything about that unless and until there is a massive increase in job vacancies.
But for yourselves of course, factual and evidence based politics would leave you nowhere in the politics of a functiong democracy, rather than some trending neo feudal oligarchy of a ‘Golden Circle’ and their lackeys, socio-paths and psychopaths.
(Statistical eveidence tells us that ‘some’ people like you Aquinas are actual clinical Psychopaths, mentally distrubed persons incapable of human empathy… I wonder how many exactly, and how many are active on online comments section?)
have people forgotten his performance on hep c? were all the trolls on holidays last week when siteserv raised its head? fennelly report? its not only noonan who is disgusting..anybody who blindly supports these people are as bad
Failgeal the party of the elites and corruption cant wait for one of you traitors to call to my door looking for my vote bucket of dirty water straight over them. Slime bags
Thomas you comment is utter rubbish !
Damien, we don’t live in the UK. The Irish left is on the rise.
David Milliband can`t contest the Labour leadership, he`s not an MP.
Food bank-a-go-go!
According to Sky News ten minutes ago they could organise a by-election thus solving that problem.
Surely they won’t be so smug as to elect Harriet Harman with her pink f*cking bus as full-time leader………..?
“The Irish left is on the rise.”
Not really. Sinn Féin are mopping up “soft left” support from a Labour party that are collapsing. This UK election is an excellent warning to SF/Socialists etc. that what people want (we’re similar in mindset to UK, let’s face it) is not half their income stolen to pay for their fantasy. They also don’t want an economic recovery destroyed.
Well said Mike Hall. Noonan has amply demonstrated his sociopathic tendencies when as Minister for Health he fought seriously ill and dying women including Brigid McCole, tooth and nail through the courts in order to deny them justice in the full knowledge that the negligence of the Blood Transfusion Service Board had caused them to be infected with hepatitis. A truly repugnant individual like his cheerleaders on here.
You hit the nail on the head there Mike, that is EXACTLY what is going on here. We have seen it with the whole IW debacle, private vs. public employees etc. Keep the population divided because a population together/united are FAR TOO DANGEROUS!
Bye Bye British natives, this was your last chance to save your ethnicity. Never say or complain you were not warned or did not have the chance, British patriots warned you and gave you that chance, at least they will be able to tell their grandchildren they fought the hell that awaits them. Well, at least some tried to save their people that’s all any can do.
You are correct Waddler in the nature of the gov that was elected, I won’t say our, because they are not my gov. They are the servants of EU capitalist nutjobs. And yes they are all sociopaths or psychopaths. Don’t be fooled by the Hollywood characture of what a sociopath/psychopath is, they haev a much more normal facade than the image that is pushed, some have family’s some have the pint with mates, behind that though lies a true personage with terrible diabolical motivations, much like that “mild architect” Mr. Normal who presented one face to the public but underneath was a completely different creature – many politicians are exactly the same underneath, power mad socio and psychopaths.
Vótáil 63% in aghaidh na Tories! Tá an córas vótála ina cheap magaidh sa RA.
EW, commiserations that your beloved BNP was not successful.
This comment is particularly funny. What type of policies caused the crash and recession in the first place mate? Enjoy the boom and bust of the unregulated free market compadre… :)
@damian Rogers :: if we’re lucky!! The best thing for Ireland would be to let fine gael to continue the recovery it has started much like the UK has done with Cameron. Unfortunately the UK tends to have a much more astute electorate than we do in Ireland, they know when to look forward whereas we keep our heads firmly in the past!!
Fine gael may have made some unpopular decisions but they were very necessary and the right thing to do, time has and will prove that! Given a better economic forecast fine gael will have the time and resources needed to focus more on burning social issues, it is already making moves to do as such.
#Farage4TopGear
I think I’d actually watch that.
He’d be slating all the foreign cars
@le tigre: you do know that he drives a volvo? Also his wife is German so can’t hate all foreigners
Obviously a joke above. ^^^
Delighted the bigot is gone
@Diarmuid O’Fionnachta –
“Farage only hates the blacks and the Pakis!!”
What a Total rubbish & and demonstrably unfair comment mate!
Has anyone at the Journal noticed that around 1/3 of MPs are now girls WITHOUT RESORTING TO ANTI-DEMOCRATIC QUOTAS? No?
Surely you mean women?
Who run this mother?
Who run this mother?
It’s not like 1/3 is still underepresenting an entire gender or anything.
It’s the target for the gerrymandering project now enshrined in law here
Well, it’s the initial target. It goes up to 40% after that. I mean, you can hardly expect would-be female candidates to actually persuade people to vote for them! Lol!!
Girls? Tigre. As opposed to BOYS you mean?
Le Tigre – the quota is only for nomination. You won’t be forced to vote for any “girls” if the thought upsets you; it might be just worth trying to break up the boys’ club mentality in the larger parties regarding nominations. If it doesn’t work, fair enough but I think it’s worth trying.
The only people not represented are those that do not vote.
“Here’s to a brighter future for everyone”.
You’d swear this was Cameron’s first chance to govern!
Julian, its his first time with a Tory majority.
Closer to home, great to see SDLP/UUP making inroads into the support for the extremist SF/DUP.
SF support is down overall, also losing one seat, despite their sectarian politics practiced by the likes of Gerry Kelly.
Pity Nicola Long didn’t hold her seat, very brave politician.
Naomi I assume
A Conservative victory could honestly benefit the Scottish Independence movement better than a Labour – SNP led Coalition would have. There will be a referendum on the European Union and If the UK leaves the Scottish will be demanding a separate vote for Scotland and I have no doubt that Sinn Féin will call for a separate vote for Northern Ireland and if they are denied this it could mean another surge in nationalism in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The problem is there is a near 8 billion hole in what Scotland takes in and spends.
Independence or bot some hard choices form them.
The SNP are in clod coco land
As for the Europe vote, the DUP who have the most sears in London want out of the EU so makes you wonder if their voters do to.
Boris Johnson was talking about some kind of federal system being put in place. That is a nightmare scenario for the Labour party. It would effectively entrench a Tory majority in England for a generation, barring major upsets, while they’ve little more than a toehold in Scotland.
I hope that Cameron isn’t reliant on the hateful DUP to stay in power
Shinners abstaining makes this more likely.
Would the UUP not be a better fit? I heard a commentator on BBC refer to the DUP as nutcases live this morning. That was nice, it’s not just us.
Ed Miliband was the best thing to ever happen the Conservatives. He was worth 50 seats to them – a totally un-electable wuss of a party leader. He makes Neil Kinnock look like a statesman
Hopefully they’ll elect another cretin. Maybe even please please god Russell Brand and then they’ll be history.
Lib dems wiped out in the uk so it all points to irish labour party wipeout in the irish election. The thing that p!sses me off is that they can leave with their massive pensions after trying to forcefully take people wages and social welfare to pay taxes etc.
On that logic FG are heading for an overall majority
Different systems lads, Labour here won’t be wiped out but there’ll be a lot less of them and FG haven’t a snowballs chance in hell of an outright majority.
We don’t trust any party to govern on their own, whereas voters in the UK prefer single party government.
The fact we have a different electoral system might have something to do with it too
@ Norman…. its not taht we don’t trust single party government, there are just too many options….
unfortuately we end up with a mixture of parties that implement policies that nobody really agrees with as its not what they voted for….
I wish we did something like the french presidential election where everyone votes a few times until you ahve two choices and in the end people end up voting for someone that may not have been the first choice to begin with
I think what happened to Labour is what everyone predicted after Ed got the leadership. Most people in Labour the couple of years have been looking at Ed thinking I wish we had your brother instead.
Incredible how the party of Blair and his slick PR machine could elect such an uninspiring drip.
Rather have an uninspiring drip in opposition than a war-mongering Thatcherite.
UKIP still holding steady on 1… If it stays that way I couldn’t be happier.
Im thinking of the Tory defectors and picturing that scene from the Simpsons when Homer has to ask for his job at the power plant back and crawl through the sublicant door.
Poised to take up to 40-50 seats aye Nigel? Bwhahahahahab.
They’ve got almost 3 times as many votes as the SNP! That’s FPTP for you
Ukip drew far more votes than the SNP. About 5 million. It just shows the inherent unfairness of the British electoral system. Under PR parties like Ukip and the Greens would win dozens of seats.
Scotland only has 5 million people in it….
Your point makes about as much sense as sting there are more lunatics in the world than there are in Ireland.
He’s already said last night as soon as the exit polls hit the news that his real focus always was 2020…..
Which is exactly the point brainbox. Ukip won more votes than there is people in Scotland, but gained just one seat. Basically it means 12% of the population were disenfranchised. It’s a travesty of democracy.
That millions if people share the views of UKIP cannot be disputed and will only grow if the issue of unregulated immigration is not dealt with.
I believe we have a similar view simmering in this country that is growing.
Unfortunately though we seem to have a need to be liked and for all foreigners to think we are wonderful, which seems to be contributing to our soft approach to immigration.
Scipio, it’s not that they are disenfranchised, it is that they are so spread out that it becomes irrelevant. The key result is power, and ukip have the same power as if they had 12% of the seats – none. Even the SNP seats at 50% of the Scottish vote, they will have no more power in Westminster than they currently have in the Scottish parliament (albeit they can keep bringing independence to the table), if anything, the Tories can continue to treat Scotland as some foreign province and know that they can still remain in power over the whole of the UK without one seat in Scotland or NI.
Scipio the UK had a referendum on changing their electoral system 2011 I believe it took place.The people choose not to change it.
Exactly. There’s a system in the UK which UK voters recognise as legitimate. There’s a system in Ireland which Irish voters recognise as legitimate. As long as people buy into the legitimacy, it works. The UK’s principal problem is that large numbers of British people see the EU’s actions as undemocratic and illegitimate. To quote Jeremy Paxman, a scheme to achieve by stealth what the Luftwaffe failed to achieve by force.
You just bought into the legitimacy promoted by the allied victors of ww2, they are the authors of the illusion of freedom you have, not the Luftwaffe.
They didn’t really choose not to change the electoral system. They simply didn’t want the alternative vote system. They weren’t offered any other choice. For example, there was no offering of proportional representation.
No I didn’t. I stated someone else’s point of view.
“To quote Jeremy Paxman, a scheme to achieve by stealth what the Luftwaffe failed to achieve by force.”
Emily by quoting that to make your point, are you not agreeing with their sentiment? Allied victors of WW2 had in mind the stealth takeover of the European populace
“The Essence Of The Kalergi Plan:
In his book Practical Idealism, Kalergi indicates that the residents of the future “United States of Europe” will not be the People of the Old Continent, but a kind of sub-humans, products of miscegenation. He clearly states that the peoples of Europe should interbreed with Asians and colored races, thus creating a multinational flock with no quality and easily controlled by the ruling elite.
Coudenhove-Kalergi in his autobiography:
“At the beginning of 1924, we received a call from Baron Louis de Rothschild; one of his friends, Max Warburg from Hamburg, had read my book and wanted to get to know us. To my great surprise, Warburg spontaneously offered us 60,000 gold marks, to tide the movement over for its first three years ….
Max Warburg, who was one of the most distinguished and wisest men that I have ever come into contact with, had a principle of financing these movements. He remained sincerely interested in Pan-Europe for his entire life. Max Warburg arranged his 1925 trip to the United States to introduce me to Paul Warburg and financier Bernard Baruch.”
http://www.politicalforum.com/political-opinions-beliefs/349923-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-genocide-people-europe.html
When the Marxists won in Greece the keyboard warrior Trots were all over the web demanding respect for Syriza’s mandate.
In fairness I’m presuming these Trots will not welcome the Neo-Con victory in the UK but they will demand respect for Cameron’s mandate
Cameron won fair and square, no matter how much I dislike how he reminds me of one of those push spoiled young rich posh kids with chubby cheeks. Seriously, does no one else think that? It scares me sometimes.
The English like ourselves get the politicians they deserve. Sad times.
Irish,
Feel exactly the same, pleased that Conservatives have won and so can carry on the (mainly) good work they’ve been doing but wish thy had a different leader
Syriza have received precisely no respect for their mandate from the unelected bureaucrats of the Troika who are waging an economic/monetary war on the Greek people. The Troika can do this because Greece like Ireland has ceded monetary sovereignty to the ECB.
Lol, i backed a majority for con at 1am, it was at 14-1 on betfair, and that was after blunkett and other major labour figures were conceding that con would win the majority. Get it together betfair, but also thank you betfair haha
Ahh Waddles …. they can’t exactly hope for much when their “Screw you guys, I am not gonna pay” is followed up with a “Erm… any chance of a loan of a tenner there lads?”
Waffler, economic war my arss, how dare they ask the Greek people to pay what they owe!
Funny that syriaza ha chosen to pay the IMF before it’s workers! Solidarity and all that
Waffler you are living in cloud cuckoo land. You may believe your bs about how wonderfully smoothly the UK keystroked it’s way out of trouble but your class would disagree with you about austerity in the UK… And still the people voted for the party of economic responsibility rather than some leftist tosh. And even Syriza is smelling the roses and realising that if you are not prepared to repay your loans either with keystrokes or real wealth of the same value they will not give you more loans.
Waffler waddle off…
LOL – Fair play Stuart, I sincerely hope you made a packet, have a great weekend with it.
Tommy, Dwayne and assorted blueshirt hacks. I’ll explain it to you again as it has failed to sink in to your addled neo liberal brains.
The only reason that the Troika hold any leverage over Greece now is that the nation’s debts are in what is effectively a foreign currency, the Euro. The same holds true for Ireland.
This is a key reason why European democracy is largely a façade now and why the unelected technocrats of the ECB and IMF get to decide how many Greek and Irish children need to go to bed cold and hungry so that the corporate elite which the Troika serve continue to accumulate vast wealth at the rate they’ve become accustomed to.
Sovereign currency issuing nations like the U.K are never required to balance the books. A budget deficit is of no concern to a nation with control of its own currency. The U.K can sustain ANY size of debt or deficit which is denominated in sterling. The ‘debt’ and any interest due is paid via keystrokes at the Bank of England. That is why the enormous £850 billion bank bailout in the U.K. did not bankrupt the nation as it did in Ireland’s case and why the EU holds no stick over Britain, Denmark etc.
The difference with Greece and Ireland is that these nation’s debts are effectively a foreign currency debt which cannot be keystroked out of existence as monetary sovereignty has been ceded to the ECB.
So Ireland, Greece, Spain Portugal etc must obtain Euros to service the debt using the real resources (e.g labour or exports) of the nation or borrow euro funding externally also to be repaid ultimately with the real resources of the citizens.
The Euro was a deliberately designed monetary trap which we will ultimately need to exit if it continues down the current destructive neo liberal path which serves the interests of capital over the interests of the majority (labour).
Blueshirts Waddler?
Blueshirts served the Irish and would run Fine Gael off the cliffs of Moher. These EU lackeys are no “blueshirts”, let’s be honest here.
That’d be nice.
As it is they’re caught between declaring the outright stupidity of the ignorant masses for not voting the “right” way, or bemoaning how the innocent dupes have been conned into “voting against their interests” yet again. Either way, it’s rage. And it’s entertaining.
So, what are your ambitions “Irish” , on your first tweet?
They voted Tory because they were the better of the two centre right parties on offer. It’s a long time since Labour could be regarded left wing. The only left leaning parties were SNP, PC, Greens and possibly SF. SNP did brilliantly. Labour have only themselves to blame for deserting their core voter base. The new leader will have to return to the centre left if they are to comeback.
Anyone surprised by these results is clearly not in touch with the British people. A Labour leader viewed as untrustworthy after the bitter leadership race and one a unable to connect with the electorate. Clegg was just viewed as a traitor and clearly deluded. Hence then LD results. The UK economy is strong, people are working and they were never going to take a chance on change at the point. Like him or not, Cameron can get votes and has a charismatic way about him. I’ll admit the SNP landslip was bigger than many thought. An historic election though.
Why are you commenting here? Are there no discussion forums in the UK? (vapour & ecig store – we have them here, you know).
Labour have gone to the right the English people saw no difference and are angling to leave the EU with Cameron promising them a referendum. Will he who knows but to hunger to leave the EU won it for him.
Conservatives do the “new Labour” thing better than Labour. So they won.
Yep. Same in the US any time c-left parties try to out right wing the right wing they loose.
Cameron and cons hammered home the areas they were strong on, like immigration and economy meanwhile Lab is talking the bloody defecit when they are strong on NHS etc
So the electorate thinks ‘well if it’s about the economy and immigration I trust the conservatives more with that..’
Also big scare tactic element of SNP-Lab coalition stopped people voting Lab, this might be kept in mind FG will try to do this with the prospect of a SF-50 independents coalition here
All puppets on a string.
Doesn’t matter which party gets in they all have the same “mandate”
Should that be “womandate?”
Great result, out of the blood sucking eu next.
The poor will continue to be kicked, energy companies will continue their circle jerk, nationalism on the rise….
“Tomorrow belongs to meeeeeee…….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWObgMbh__w
So SF could hold the balance of power in Westminster – you can imagine the drooling of the party leadership in the background… i wonder how they’ll convince* their followers to abandon it? – they’ve abandoned every other principle.
Bad day for the shinner trolls.. they’ve been awfully quiet…
Are they still on the rise I wonder…
Wouldn’t be a fan of the first past the post system. It favours the big and mainstream parties. One example is the percentage of the vote UKIP got but only managed one seat, not that I’d like to see UKIP get more seats.
Great to hear that Farage quit.
Labour it’s your death knell. You stopped being the workers party of choice. So Joan the moan your time is over.
Hey those two words rhyme!!
Damn. I really thought Labour would end up in an overall majority with the SNP. I don’t understand why the British public are falling for the idea that the austerity implemented between 2010-2012 actually benefited the economy. The pain has eased but actual recovery remains elusive outside of London.
Great news Nigel Paul Farage is gone no more looking for scapegoats
It’s massively surprising.
“I really thought Labour would end up in an overall majority with the SNP.”
Labour have been awful. A nebulous campaign. What’s bad for the UK is just how splintered the vote is regionally.
The result, however, is a warning to the left here. Economic stability means more than fluff. Could see the same happen with Fine Gael next year given how awful the opposition has been.
Search FG haven’t a hope of an overall majority here.Ireland and the UK have different electoral systems plus we don’t trust single party governance.
The SNP in Scotland, for example, have an overall majority in a PR system. It’s very very possible.
Search I’d stake my house on FG not getting a majority.Even Enda’s seat is in trouble.
Is this according to your urban bubble of cool progressiveness and almighty trendiness? Or based on what the beyond the only-urbanites-matter perpective? Money and economy say the Irish will vote in the anti-Irish FG.
Surely Lorna you mean
Nigel Farage is gone, no more irritating facts!
Hey lads, this “Eire warning” yoke got a comment of mine deleted on another thread!! It is just so well up for ‘debate’[ ain’t it. The old jackboot – ‘agree or else’.
First past the post. Absolute sham of a system
The conservative party ,sky news and bbc and utv were successful in scare mongering the british people into voting these tories back into power by setting the tone that snp and labour together will destroy the union with scotland ,all the media channels are deep in the pockets of the tories ,
Cameron = destruction of the most vunerable in society and appeasement to the knuckle draggers loyalist in the north of ireland which will give loyalist a lience to trample all over the rights of their catholic neighbours
Yet Jim Murphy stays as Scottish labour leader. He is delusional if he thinks he is the guy to bring Labour Party back into step with Scottish working class people.
Under David Cameron’s reign, the bailout cost the tax payers 850 million. Enough to pay for the NHS for 8 years. And then the bankers awarded themselves the same amount in bonuses. It baffles me how people voted these guys in again.
Are you a Maths teacher Stephen by any chance?
The NHS budget is £95.6 billion. £850 million would keep it going for about three days. 8 years! Hilarious.
I can’t understand the Brits, how could anyone vote for those Tory pigs??
Brits are told , and they think the economy is back, (and it may well be) they do not want to rock what they think is a rising boat, hence they vote for money, same will happen here, the people will vote FG simply because of current economy and perceived “back on track”
I’m pretty baffled by the swing here. I’m not a huge fan of Labour in the UK but judging from the comments here Murdoch and the Tory-led media have been extremely successful in painting a joke of a picture of Ed Miliband. I think they took the wrong stance with the SNP, just acknowledge you’re going to lose a lot of seats in Scotland and focus on England – focus on hammering home your message and not diluting it or letting the Tories and 90% of the media scare you.
People didn’t vote for something they believed in, they voted against something they were scared of – a Labour/SNP coalition. It’s basically the Indyref all over again, but for England. Campaign of fear wins the day.
You do realise Connor you hate Murdoch because 40 years ago he broke the print unions and the left have just manipulated you into hating him. Use your own brains.
Of course William, the left are all powerful evidently.
Yawn
Like oh my god…. I know right. Soooo boring right?
Lets talk about hair care products, Kim Kardashian, low carb diets or strictly come dancing…
Or the huge success for female candidates who now make up one third of the UK Parliament?
How about the rise of misogyny Drew?
You left out The Voice Ireland
Why not talk about Kardashians, after all she has a person-of-colour husband so she must be cool and interesting, surely many cool European women will want to be like her and claim a sort of higher social status by having a person-of-colour husband, seeing as tis all what the cool z-celebs do. Curious question and v fascinating topic though, do the children inherit the woman’s beautiful white pearly rare complexion and skin tone or blue/grey/green/ eyes or even the autumnal/olive/golden brown eyes of a European woman, or their beautiful fine delicate straight hair? Interesting to see.
Have you thought of trying for an oriental one? That might relieve the boredom.
Yawn.
Yawn somewhere else.
Poor Ed needs to look @ the irish political system!
Keep trying until you eventually get in #Enda
I wonder did they use pencils like Ireland did on the Lisbon. I wonder now will Cameron actually do the referendum on EU membership. And will there be pencils used there to. Funny how after the Lisbon Ireland’s writing accessories became pencils.
Miliband must be the most bland politician ever – aside from our own government !! Lessons there for Burton and the grave she is digging for her party. Hopefully the Conservatives pull the UK out of European Union forcing Scotland to break away and also forcing us to pull out of EU – all win win.
“I just this party”, Check your spelling Orla.
Only Very Recently Ed Miliband Ruled Out A Coalition With The SNP.
The only good thing about FPTP is that they aren’t waiting for the recount of the recount to fill the last seat in Wicklow two weeks after polling day
Good on you Enda.
You know how to butter it up!!!
Any idea how the outcome would look if they had proportion rep. like ourselves?
Looking forward to seeing the same thing happen to the Labour party let’s hope they fall on their swords as gracefully especially Job bridge Joan and her rottweiler Kelly
Sure am glad to see the back of that slimy Ed Miliband, glad UKIP got nowhere, great to see SF on the way down the other side of the popularity peak, a few fewer DUP would have been no bad thing, and a pity about the Lib Dems, but being in government did not appear to suit the disposition of most LDs, particularly their ministers.
The Tories are the winners, that’s for sure. A majority Tory government can get things done starting with dismantling the ridiculous energy policy which results in super-expensive electricity, and very little CO2 reduction per £ spent. If Cameron can keep his people from doing the usual arrogant stuff that gives the people reason to vote Labour, he might win a 3rd.
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