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So no big change at the top, just going to be the Tories unleashed now. There is the promise of a referendum on Europe, which scares me because of how one sided the whole EU debate is.

Anyway, Clegg has just resigned after strongly hinting when he won his constituency that he'd be doing so. Farrage has lost his seat and resigned, meaning UKIP no longer has it's public face and will no doubt begin dying a death. Milliband will resign today just as soon as he can find a big enough gap in between everyone else resigning to get the cameras there.

So all change at the top for the opposition parties, and best of all Ed Balls lost his seat.


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Yeah without Farridge UKIP would fizzle out, however he said he may challenge for the leadership again in the autumn (for which he'd doubtless be a shoe in) so not much of a resignation really.

Well the SNP done their job in Scotland, just a shame that labour could not do it in the rest of the UK.
ach well 5 more years of bloody austerity, can't wait.

David Cameron will reside in the next parliament as the Tory Prime Minister who took us out of Europe (as the only rhetoric we hear is the 'bloody immigrants' viewpoint), and the leader who presided over the break up of the union, as five weeks of 'the Scots are coming to hold our government to ransom' scaremongering, a year after 'we're all one big happy family' lovefest, means the Tory party don't mean squat north of the border, and if they do the wrong thing, the SNP have the mandate to just walk away.

Ironically if that happens, given all the love that Nicola Sturgeon has given to Europe and immigration during the election, the Scots will be crying 'bloody immigrants' too, as ten million disaffected socialists head North before the border is sealed, as pseudo-socialist current Labour are, not even they are ever getting into power in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by themselves again.


Yeah, I'm peeved, although I called the election for the Tories last Saturday when the Duchess dropped her sprog, as that was the Tory good news boost they needed.

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ach well 5 more years of bloody austerity, can't wait.Well if we have austerity again, we surely cannot find 4 Trillion Pounds for Trident successor, can we? 

Funny how none of the major parties who want this, did not say during the election where this money is coming from!

I'd suggest any rejoicing over Farage and UKIP is tempered by the fact they got somewhere north of 4 million votes and second place in over 100 seats.

Their existence is largely due to the two major parties failing to address the problems they thrive on and if 'call me Dave' doesn't address them in this parliament they may well do better next time.

I feel sorry for Nick Clegg as the situation he found himself in he put country ahead of party which is rare these days. I suspect in 10/15 years time history will be kinder to him than the electorate have just been.

As for the SNP. I'm old enough to remember Rhodesia, Ian Smith and UDI.
(Faslane and Trident)

Does anyone know the right dressing for Salade de Chapeau only Paddy Ashdown was asking.
Also Champagne stocks are severely reduced in New York after a large order from a Mr D Milliband.



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As Snaps pointed out, Farridge/UKIP got (actually slightly under) 4 million votes = 1 seat,
LDs 2.4m = 8 seats (at time of typing)
Greens 1.15m = 1 seat
SNP 1.45m = 56 SEATS!!!

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Ha ha....you have got to hand it to the SNP....exactly what they didn't want (5 years of Tory rule) they have now got. Locked out of No 10?  Ha ha ha. Careful what you wish for , eh? Apart from Scotland becoming a tartan North Korea-style single party state, how does that help 'defy the Tory cuts'? Looking forward to hearing the Great Leader dealing with that one. Good to see the back of a metrosexual geeky leader and a spineless one. Btw, very little talk of the liberal democrats haemorraging votes because of the outright travesty of tuition fees and failing to deal with an alleged perv (I don't mean Cyril Smith) which surely lost thousand of female voters. Time for a new old labour, eh? Maybe one of the mega-rich union barons will put principles before money (have you seen how much they trouser, even in copper bottomed pensions?) and stand for the leadership?  What's that lads?..Yep,thought not. Yep, UKIP will now implode but I hope the shrapnel does not mean a return to meathead BNP type parties. Oh well, how much worse can it get??

If Cameron delivers the referendum that he promised on Europe, that's UKIP dead anyway, as they're a single policy party, and once that issue is set to bed, they have no reason left to exist.

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I feel sorry for Nick Clegg as the situation he found himself in he put country ahead of party which is rare these days. I suspect in 10/15 years time history will be kinder to him than the electorate have just been.
Not sorry for him at all .......Allowing the raising of tuition fees to £9000 was the killer blow for many of us with kids to educate, so yesterday we gave him and his party the killer blow back.