THE CONSERVATIVES WIN OUTRIGHT IN UK ELECTIONS

With only 20 seats left to be declared in Britain’s parliamentary elections Thursday, the Conservatives have emerged the clear largest party in the United Kingdom, with Prime Minister David Cameron set to remain prime minister, without requiring the support of Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats.

Of the seats declared by 9.00 am today, the Conservatives have already won 315 seats, with Labour trailing by 228 seats. Britain’s biggest party is projected to win 329 seats, three more than 326 majority in the 650 strong House that it needs to form a government.
The party’s coalition partner, Liberal Democrats fared badly in the election, winning just eight seats, including leader Nick Clegg’s seat in Sheffield Hallam. Five years ago, the LD won 57 seats, making it a vital partner with Cameron’s Conservatives with 306 seats. Now Cameron can afford to dump Clegg and co, with Clegg facing political extinction.
Pollsters were dead wrong to have predicted a close race between Labour and the Conservatives.

Ed Miliband: a night to forget

“It was a tragic night for Labour”, said Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London.
“This has clearly been a very disappointing and difficult night for the Labour Party,” Labour leader Ed Miliband said after winning his own seat in northern England. “I’m deeply sorry for what has happened.”
Labour fared worst in Scotland, where it won only one seat, like the Conservatives, losing all to the nationalists, SNP. The bulk of the latter’s haul of 56 seats ought
to be Labour’s, but so worsted was Labour that the party’s shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander was beaten by the SNP’s Mhairi Black, a 20-year-old student. Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy also lost his seat in East Renfrewshire to the SNP, just like the former prime minister, Gordon Brown saw his constituency swept away by SNP’s tsunami. Just five years ago, the party that still wants to break the union between Scotland and Great Britain, won just six seats. Its huge gains, were Labour’s huge losses.
By the latest projections, Ed Miliband’s Labour will end up with 233 seats, 25 fewer than it won five years ago.