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BBC News reports that the Conservatives have defied pre-election polls and all the exit polls to win an overall majority in the House of Commons. The race was thought to be much closer than the final results have shown, with many predicting either another coalition government or possibly a minority Conservative government being formed.
The Conservatives made gains in England and Wales and are forecast by the BBC to secure 331 seats in the Commons, giving them a slender majority. Sources say [Labour leader] Ed Miliband is expected to stand down after Labour was all but wiped out by the [Scottish National Party] in Scotland. [Liberal Democrat] leader Nick Clegg has already said he will quit, with his party set to be reduced from 57 to eight MPs. [United Kingdom Independence Party] leader Nigel Farage is also quitting after he failed to win Thanet South, losing by nearly 2,800 votes to the Conservatives.
The Conservatives have taken 331 of the 650 seats available. However, when Sinn Fein's continued boycott of Westminster is taken into account, along with the four seats they current hold, 324 is enough for a practical majority. An overall turnout of 66% is expected, marginally up on the previous general election in 2010.
Shortly after the results of the exit polls were revealed, Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, stated in a live interview on the BBC that he would "eat his hat" if the predicted losses for the Liberal Democrats came true. The poll showed the Lib Dems losing 45 seats - in the end they lost 47. Lord Ashdown mentioned shortly after he made the statement that he had received through Twitter ten offers of hats if he didn't have one of his own.
For those of us not familiar with UK politics, what are the views of the Conservatives we should be concerned about (if any)? How will their viewpoints affect the world political stage and/or the technology world?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday May 09 2015, @03:12PM
On Scotland: yes, and that's sort of what I meant by things moving to a new stage or a new level, they have to get serious about these things now.
Besides that I just want to point out that I was a hard-line Euro-skeptic twenty years ago (in the mid-nineties) and still am. It was obvious the EU was a false promise with a fascist/anti-democratic agenda. Twenty years later most people in the EU still do not seem to understand or care about what the loss of national sovereignty actually means: it means you no longer get to decide on your own within a nation, you have to do as your told (that is the whole point with a union in the first place) with at best some minor influence and at worst (and usually) none at all.
Of course there's an immediate short-term profit from joining, of course it looks like winning the lottery, it wouldn't be much of a scam if it didn't and mostly because people refuse to realize the obvious nature of the gradually increasing down-payments that will continue into “eternity”.
It is very reminiscent of many other terrible mistakes that have and are being made.
No I don't want manipulation but regardless that isn't manipulation but pandering. As good as no one decides who to vote for based on any front page, it's just the usual noise aimed at people willing to waste money on tabloids (and they're all tabloids).
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