What do you mean, I can see the Tory supporters on the forum saying? The Tories have won umpteen seats. Yeah, well as yet they havent got an overall majority and don't look likely too.
This is a staggeringly poor performance considering:
1. Only twice in 200 years has a political party won 4 elections in a row.
2. The Iraq war was a total disaster for the labour party and the war in Afghanistan is very unpopular
3. THe country has recently been in the worst recession since the 1930's.
4. Brown was never elected Prime Minister and in a televisual age is not what you would call the most charismatic performer!
5. MPs were engulfed in the expenses scandal.
Not to win an overall majority in the above scenario, is an incredibly bad performance for the Tories. I suspect the reason for this is:
1. Many people can still remember the horrors of Thatcherism.
2. Cameron comes across as a smooth operator who nobody seems to know whether he is a bringer of "change" or Thatcher in drag.
3. A lot of his ideas such as the Big Society are so clearly idiotic even old Tory voters wonder whether he is the right man to lead the country.
4 Osborne looks as if he could be a rabbit stuck in the headlights if he ends up as Chancellor.
Anyway, the idea that there seems to be a mandate for right wing Tory nonsense strikes me as not proven.
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