What a strange lot of election results we've had today.
Scotland goes to the outright control of the Nationalists, Wales is almost under the control of Labour, having kicked their Nationalists in the goolies, and the Liberals have been hammered everywhere. For some inexplicable reason, the Conservatives have managed to GAIN council seats in England and Labour have won far fewer than they might have expected.
What the implications of all of this will be is anyones' guess. Will the Westminster coalition last ? Will Scotland become independent ? Will Wales ever learn ? Will the Liberal Democrats still exist in 5 years ?
As if this isn't enough, we also had the referendum vote on a change to the voting system; did we want to stick with 'First passed the post' or switch to the 'Alternative vote' ? The results seem to show that close to 70% of us were not attracted at all by the proposed change, so why did we have to spend money on the referendum in the first place ? When will our politicians stop wasting OUR money on THEIR pet projects, for purely political reasons ?
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