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Just in case you missed it there was a UK election yesterday

Fantastic to see the UK go strongly conservative at such a critical time in their great collective histories.

"Conservative" in the UK is not the same as "conservative" in the US.
 
This is not all that surprising. UK has been going too far left for too long and it stands to reason that Conservatives (+24) and the Scottish National Party, arguably somewhat liberal themselves, (+50) made great gains at the expense of Liberal Democrats (-47) and the Labour Party (-26.) At this point based on the numbers Conservatives alone have enough seats to govern. Such a bad loss there are resignations to watch play out, especially seeing as Liberal Democrats are down to all of 8 seats. Such a blow out it tells us the pulse of the UK has spoken enough to want real changes going forward.

Wasn't Lib Dem part of the Conservatives majority coalition (or whatever it is called) prior to the election? From what I was reading it sounded more like Lib Dem lost a lot of votes for not being Lib Dem's, then any sort of referendum against leftism.

But yeah, a lot of resignations last night, from what I recall the Lib Dem, Labour, and UKIP leaders all resigned following the results last night.


For interest/fun, the political compass chart for UK 2015 elections:
http://politicalcompass.org/uk2015

Seems Tories are way too right, from what has been discussed in here. Haven't read on the methodology in a long time, so not sure how they are doing the charts now, but yeah.
 
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Wasn't Lib Dem part of the Conservatives majority coalition (or whatever it is called) prior to the election? From what I was reading it sounded more like Lib Dem lost a lot of votes for not being Lib Dem's, then any sort of referendum against leftism.

But yeah, a lot of resignations last night, from what I recall the Lib Dem, Labour, and UKIP leaders all resigned following the results last night.


For interest/fun, the political compass chart for UK 2015 elections:
The Political Compass

Seems Tories are way too right, from what has been discussed in here. Haven't read on the methodology in a long time, so not sure how they are doing the charts now, but yeah.

For the most part. But we have to keep in mind two important things here. One, their system of government in handling "coalition" is different. Two, their terminology of "conservative" and "liberal" is not quite the same.

But the effect in terms I was speaking of seems to stand from these results. Great gains were made at the express cost to those that lean further left, arguably.

It will be interesting to see what Conservatives do via the seats they have obtained.
 
Election results: Conservatives win majority - BBC News

It is odd that there has been no mention of this surprise result anywhere here despite the UK being supposedly Americas closest ally. Here in the UK the minutae of US political campaigns is dissected and analysed ad nauseam and usually years before US polling day

Its also quite bizarre when you contrast that with the sound and fury generated on the forum by elections in Israel

There was discussion in the Europe subforum. I spent a lot of time watching the BBC last night. I wish the Prime Minister much success in governing following his re-election.
 
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The Conservative party in the UK has a position roughly akin to the mainstream or right of mainstream in the Democrat party. The libdems are slightly to the left opf that and Labour is where Move on org is.
 
Looks like supporting same-sex marriage doesn't harm conservative candidates after all. Take note US conservatives, it is time to change your tune.
 
From The New York Times:

...Mr. Miliband’s campaign was also a challenge — and a rebuff — to the “New Labour” strategy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who won three elections by downplaying socialism, reaching for the center and convincing business that Labour was its friend...

The problem was not Mr. Miliband’s personality but policy, “the issue of aspiration in people’s lives,” Mr. Johnson said. “We can no longer relate to them as a party of aspiration. And that was one of the big successes that won us three elections.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/w...roves-costly-for-labour-party-in-britain.html

In elections, candidates and parties need to advocate positions and policies that are reasonably consistent with the electorate's needs and desires. This assessment suggests that Labor had lurched to a vision that was inconsistent with the British electorate's needs and desires. It is unclear why the Party would have abandoned the more successful centrist path it had previously taken, especially when the British economy was in the midst of a continuing expansion.
 
Such a "lurch" or even incompatibility with the British electorate fails to explain their all but total wipeout in Scotland, by a SNP who cleverly assumed the leftist positions abandoned by Blairism.
 
Such a "lurch" or even incompatibility with the British electorate fails to explain their all but total wipeout in Scotland, by a SNP who cleverly assumed the leftist positions abandoned by Blairism.

Scotland was its own distinct phenomenon. It will be interesting to see what changes the various parties make in the wake of the election.
 
Scotland is effectively a democratic one party state. There are only three of 59 MP's who are not SNP.
 
Scotland is effectively a democratic one party state. There are only three of 59 MP's who are not SNP.

Considering the last several years of politics in or about Scotland, that is not surprising to see a sort of political unification under mostly one banner.
 
Fantastic to see the UK go strongly conservative at such a critical time in their great collective histories.

Oh dear. Although a British conservative isn't quite what an American conservative is. David Cameron considers Gaza a prison camp, he cut defense spending, he's for national healthcare, and a host of other goodies anathema to the American conservative, lol.

And he even considers himself a liberal conservative. No self respecting American conservative would ever allow the word liberal to be part of a title with which he describes himself.

Cameron declares himself a Liberal AND a Tory
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Actually, its not enough said. If you are looking for an intelligent review, you need to understand that a British Conservative aligns closer to a US Democrat than a US Republican...

How Conservative Would British Conservatives Be in the U.S.? - The Wire

To be fair, the only conservative parties that are some what similar to the American conservatives are probably Iran and Saudi Arabia and the Vatican... everyone else are far more like the British conservatives and the Democratic party.
 
To be fair, the only conservative parties that are some what similar to the American conservatives are probably Iran and Saudi Arabia and the Vatican... everyone else are far more like the British conservatives and the Democratic party.

It is ironic too that under our political voting system we have a party in power now whom 64% of people did not endorse at the polls. We have a situation too where 3.8 million voted for our UKIP party and they got 1 seat yet just 1.6 million voted SNP and yet they now have 56 seats ! Go figure
 
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