Election Misery

The votes have been cast, they have been counted and the result is in. The UK has, disappointingly, elected a Conservative led government to take us forward for the next 5 years. I can't begin to tell you how miserable I feel! 

There will be many people out there who will pick this apart perhaps more expertly than I but I will share my personal take. 

Why am I so miserable? I do not like Conservative party politics. That is the top and bottom of it. The devil is in the detail. It has been apparent for some time that the rich are getting richer in this country and the poor are getting poorer. This BBC article from 2012 illustrates my point but there is also a comment at the start of this UK government document that makes stark reading. Traditional Conservative party rhetoric describes this as "natural" law. They would characterise this as allowing the individual to progress, to get on. All well and good I hear you say. Well yes, and no. Of course the nature of the rich is that they do own the most, that is why they are rich, Der!! But with the Conservatives they implication is that those that haven't got on and become rich just haven't bothered and as such deserve to be where they are. 

So how did this come to pass?

There appear to be a couple of reason's and one I can vouch for from personal experience and one is what I have read and heard in the news media.

It should of been him!

In the first place it would seem the Labour party were pretty much unelectable. Charisma was in short supply. I would agree. Ed Milliband might be a great politician but he just doesn't come across well. As for Ed Balls? I am afraid he is no great loss to the political arena. I have become used to his mutterings and verbal stumblings being mauled in Parliament by the chinless wonders on the government side. Great minds they may be but they needed to challenge the imagination of the electorate and I am afraid they were just too feeble. The wrong Milliband brother was in charge!

There seems to be a mood in the news media that the rise of the SNP put a lot of voters off. That the thought of an SNP/Labour coalition was just too much to stomach. I must admit to feeling let down by my Scottish counterparts no I will go further, they have stabbed me in the back. They took a gamble in voting SNP. If they had held with the traditional voting patterns and returned Labour MP's they would have had a better chance of influencing Westminster. Now they have 50 MP's who are going to be about as much use as a one legged man at an arse kicking competition. 

Some say it will drive the case for full devolution even further. After this I am not sure I would mind. With the price of oil the way it is they might find it harder to go alone than they think. 

This bloke has put it more succinctly than me, which is probably why he is a writer for a large national newspaper and I am the creator of a blog no one has heard of!