UK General Election the Results Are In, Kind Of

Therefore, after much trepidation, the votes cast, counted, and checked.  Many, many coffees consumed, washing down a healthy dose of fear.  The results are in, and it is a tie.  Which is funny when you think about it considering David Cameron, saviour of all the toffs and rich folks in this Country, never wore a tie in some transparent attempt to appear more like one of us.

A higher than expected number turned out to vote, in some cases there were not enough ballot papers for everyone, which is an absolute disgrace.  Some people, when locked out of the polling stations after they shut at 10pm decided to strong arm the police and staff and not allow the box to be taken without their vote.  In some cases, due to the high numbers, the stations actually locked voters in to try to get their vote in before the cut off.  Have to love the Brits; they even do lock ins at polling stations.

The law suggests that while stations must close the doors at 10pm, anyone with a voting card can register their vote, as long as they are at the station by the cut off.  Instead, the people running the polling stations took it upon themselves to deny taxpaying citizens their right to vote…  Over a technicality.  Beautiful.  There is an argument that they had all day to vote, but the argument is easily trampled by the fact that as long as you are there by 10pm, you should be allowed to vote.  It is no surprises that the news was filled with stories of sit ins, and ballot boxes being barricaded in by angry, would be, voters.  Despite the apathetic vibe the public gave off towards this election, a huge number turned out.  It was great to see… 

May 7th, I would not be surprised if this became a day of mourning among Conservatives.  A day they could have taken power if only they hadn’t put their faith in such a useless man.  I think they could have wheeled out old Lady Thatcher, with her sieve-like memory and failing health and pulled more votes in Scotland than the Party did under Cameron, and we all know what that old hag did to Scotland.  Despite finding myself surrounded by a sizable number of rosette wearing Tories last night at the local count, the results nationwide proved that there is no such thing as a Scottish Conservative…  Now if we could just figure out a way to rid the rest of Britain of this backwards party for the rich, by the rich.

There were some nice surprises as well; the Green Party won their first seat in Parliament, taking Brighton Pavillion.  The BNP didn’t do well at all, winning no seats, and leader Nick Griffin dropping to third in his constituency.  I saw one BNP candidate getting punched on the TV in a strumasch…  I’m not condoning random attacks, but it’s hard not to when the attacks are on such racist scumbags as BNP party members…  They don’t like people who aren’t white, and I don’t like people who don’t like people who aren’t white…  If that makes sense, I’m pretty sure there was an easier way to say that. 

Nick Clegg, leader of Lib Dem has expressed his disappointment at his parties poor performance, despite a huge surge in popularity.  He shouldn’t feel too disheartened, he ran a good campaign and the poor show at the polls came down to lack of balls on behalf of the voters.  Plain and simple.  Too many people voted tactically, when most would have at least toyed with the idea of voting Lib Dem, they bottled it last minute…  One thing Clegg did win though was the battle of the wives Mrs. Clegg is hot…  Not that she had much competition from Mrs. Brown, who has seen better days, and Samantha Cameron has far too much face.  It’s massive.  So big that David Cameron could store all his dumb ideas and still, have room for his redundant ties. 

So, where does this all leave us, the voters?  We have a hung parliament, and I’m guessing that will be the most Googled thing in the next couple of days…  I’d actually like a number on that, I bet its massive.  Well, you can count me in on that number, I Googled it and I’m not afraid to admit it.  It is actually the fifth time in a couple of weeks I have Googled it and I still don’t really understand it, so I checked Wiki, and as usual that was more help.  God I love Wikipedia.  A hung Parliament, to those who don’t know, is when no one party has a majority of seats.  In Britain’s case, it will more than likely result in a coalition Government…  The Daily Mail is “reporting” a conspiracy to keep Cameron out of Downing Street, led by Brown and Clegg.  We always have the worst conspiracy theories.  Look at America, moon landings, Roswell, Area 51, JFK, Hoffa, Iraq the list goes on.  We get a conspiracy to keep a toff out of office.  It’s not fair.  No aliens, no grassy knoll, no desert military base…  Just rich folk disappointed at not getting richer.

The thing about backing an underdog is that you will be disappointed most of the time, being Scottish I could never bring myself to support the firm favourite, it’s a genetic thing.  Too many people let others decide whom they voted for.  Twitter was full of RTs from celebs telling the world they should be voting for whatever party they support, obviously forgetting momentarily that we live in a democracy, a democracy in which the only real say you have is your vote.  By letting anyone dictate your decision, particularly celebrities, you are surrendering the one absolute freedom the UK Government allows you.  You can’t do anything in this Country anymore, I’ll be damned if I’d let anyone tell me who to vote for, because what would the point be? Read the manifestos that are what they are there for, don’t read tabloids and make up your own mind…  You would be as well staying at home watching reality TV, paying to vote for some idiot to win some competition that doesn’t matter…  This says a lot about the type of person who would do a thing like that.

my vote

henry hunter may 7th

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