Whatever the impressions of the international audience on the 2015 UK general election this was perhaps quite a neat result for the future of the UK given the possibilities. The Conservative party back in power but with a slim majority is a better result than having the Lib Dems in coalition and preventing the Conservatives from doing slightly more conservative things.

However if you think that this government is a truly Conservative government then think again. There are conservatives in Mr Cameron’s government but it has essentially become another ‘modernising progressive’ force in British politics subject to the same worldview possessed by the Labour and Liberal  Democrat parties. If you are not familiar with the last five years, Mr Cameron embarked on a modernising strategy to take the Conservative party in his eyes into the twenty first century by introducing gay marriage and embedding equality legislation brought in by Harriet Harman, one of the high priestesses of the 1997 to 2010 New Labour project. He has continued the project and his attitude is ‘get with the programme,’ with all its concomitant ghastly political correctness. At the same time and to be positive the Conservatives are business friendly and prefer a lower tax regime and a smaller state, so in effect they are economically conservative and socially liberal. He does not quite appear that euro sceptic and has presided over continuing astronomical levels of immigration into this country. Meanwhile the attitude of his previous coalition government to militant Islam has been pusillanimous to say the least. The one redeeming feature of the new political map is that the leftist tendencies of the Liberal  Democrats will not be there any more to hold him back from what some of the more robust of his backbenchers want him to do.

Many decent and principled British people would have opted for Cameron rather than UKIP for one reason and one reason alone. To prevent Ed Milliband of the Labour Party from inflicting more radical socialism on these islands and consequently bankrupting the country in the meantime, but in addition to prevent Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Nationalists with its statist tendencies from holding the country to ransom through undue influence on the Labour Party.

The Lib Dems have been virtually wiped out and left with a rump of eight MPs who you could squeeze into a telephone box for their next national conference. Perhaps this is the price they have paid for being in coalition with the Conservatives for the last five years. So many of their former supporters could not stomach it and moved to the Labour Party or even one of the other newer parties. Also their obsession with being wedded to the EU and consequent rather blasé attitude on mass immigration may have lost them votes. Again the unpalatable option of a London centric Labour government and the spectre of the SNP was too much for them, and former Liberal Democrat strongholds for example in the south west of England went over to the Conservatives.

UKIP have performed impressively despite only getting one seat and thereby highlighting the anomalies of the British electoral system. They gained nearly four million votes, more than the SNP and Liberal Democrats put together, but where the SNP got 56 seats out of one and a half million votes, UKIP get one seat from more than twice as many votes because they can’t win an overall majority in any one constituency apart from Clacton. Again this may seem strange to an international audience but that is how our system works. However, UKIP did get a lot of second places which bodes well for them for the next election. This also stopped Labour from winning seats, so UKIP is decidedly not a threat to just the Tories. This was probably underestimated by Labour. UKIP would have done even better if the voters had not been so worried about a UKIP vote letting a Labour government in by the back door. They would not approve particularly of Cameron’s brand of conservatism but hated the thought of ‘Red Ed’ taxing them until the pips squeak.

Because of the success of smaller parties the clamour for electoral reform will be louder in this parliament. The present system favours and suits the two main parties, but it is possible for a third party to gain success as we have seen with the Liberal Democrats in the past who have built up local support by getting entrenched in local government and then moving out from this to win parliamentary seats in those areas. So it can be done but is very much a long term strategy. Anyway, the rise of UKIP is a very encouraging sign that the stifling hold that the legacy parties have had on the UK is finally and slowly being destroyed.

A reform of the system on the other hand might bring in an element of proportional representation where to a greater extent the number of seats won reflects the number of votes cast. It would perhaps be more motivating for people to vote as they would know their vote counted, rather than in the present system where people are often tempted to vote tactically and against the party they do not want in.

David Cameron should be magnanimous in victory for after all only 37% of the voters voted for him, the other 63% should be cut some slack in the interests of governing the nation, especially when he has such a vibrant pro independence Scottish SNP breathing down his neck and nearly four million  ukippers to hold his feet to the fire.

Overall this result is a least worst scenario for the UK. It is good from the point of view of the EU referendum as now the Conservatives can go full steam ahead in organising the referendum on our continuing membership of the EU. If Labour or anyone else had got in there would have been no referendum, so from a geo-political point of view perhaps the main reason for the Conservatives getting a majority is to finally deal with the tortuous relationship the UK has had with the EU and its former manifestations. It needs to be dealt with. There were all sorts of possible outcomes in this election but a majority Conservative government is best placed to provide the British people with the EU promised referendum. And the result of that referendum if a UK exit will have an effect worldwide, I do not think I understate this.

We have just had the proof that under no circumstance should anyone who calls themselves British, English or any sort of patriot vote for this man! He has just aligned himself with the most lethal enemy known to what is left of western civilisation, namely the alliance between the hard left and militant Islam. The Daily Mail reported Nicola Sturgeon as the most dangerous woman in Britain, but Ed Milliband could be called the most dangerous man in Britain. Here he is proposing to make ‘Islamophobia’ a crime. Of course what he means by ‘Islamophobia’ may need a little clarification. However it is extremely disturbing to say the least.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/25/miliband-labour-would-outlaw-islamophobia/

Hmm. Let’s see, perhaps we will get into trouble for drawing attention to the sharia advocated rather robust policy of dealing with male apostates in Islam i.e. to kill them. Then there’s the second class status of women. Or the fact that most of the world’s worst persecutors of Christians are Islamic countries. What about if we point out that mosques are not just, ahem, ‘places of worship.’ I could go on, but too many readers are too switched on now.

Unbelievable! Perhaps he would like to go and live in Pakistan where infamous blasphemy laws cause no end of problems particularly for Christians. As he sticks his head in the crocodile’s mouth you can kiss goodbye to any remaining liberty in these islands.

Perhaps if you abandon extreme identity politics for good and treat absolutely everyone on an equal footing regardless of ethnicity, religion, background, race or shoe size people might consider voting for you a little more, decisively, shall we say, Ed. How about stopping the insidious politics of victimhood and instead, start telling people they are entirely responsible for their own lives and to take advantage of all the great opportunities life in the UK can give them, regardless of so called ‘disadvantage?’ Dream on, Labour are hoisting themselves by their own petard.

It’s not just Labour. The Conservatives are so compromised now that they are up to the same tricks. We have Theresa May saying that attacks on Moslems will become a specific hate crime if the Tories win the election according to the Daily Mail. Now hold on Mrs May, shouldn’t everyone be treated exactly the same? An attack on a white, brown, black, Moslem, Christian, Sikh, heterosexual or homosexual or however else you describe yourself person is equally bad whoever the victim is, period.

For these two proposals alone, the two main parties deserve electoral annihilation. Unfortunately it wouldn’t take a genius to guess that the Lib Dems, Greens and SNP would take the same line on this matter. Sadly Ed and Theresa’s proposals won’t get much airtime compared with the usual mantras on the NHS and tax, but it’s these ‘little foxes that spoil the vines’ that will inject more poison capsules into the body politic than another rearranging of the deckchairs on the NHS Titanic will do. There comes a point in a nation’s life when there is just too much poison in its lifeblood and it dies.

The least worst option for the UK on Thursday is to vote for UKIP.