Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
What I am failing to understand is how the Lib-dems even lost seats.

Yeah, Libdems have 1/6th behind Labour and only have a 1/6th of the seats. Pretty ridiculous.

Looks hung, I am hoping for a coalition between Lab-Libdem in an ideal world, with Clegg as Prime Minister. But I don't think even that would get a majority.
Oh stop it Beskar. The Conservatives were always going to get in. Gordon Brown is individually far more dangerous than the aristocracy; even if Banquo did describe Cameron as an "oik". The big issue (and it's a good thing) is the failure of both Cleggmania and the Tory A-list.

When it came down to it people cared more about local candidates and policies than parties and "presidential" personalities.

The other story is that England has a 41% Conservative vote. While Banquo is correct he is also wrong. The Conservative government will be English, but it will also represent a majority the overall population of the UK. Scotish and Welsh nationalists need to recognise that the "Celtic" fringe is a fringe, and has no right to wag the British dog.