Posted on 05/08/2015 2:37:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
4 minutes agoNigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, has failed to win a seat in the House of Commons.
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On their own, the Tories represent a "conservative" victory in the same way as GOP establishment candidates like McCain, Romney, and Bush represent "conservatism" in the US: less immediately destructive than the Left parties, but only slightly so.
Interesting trivia here
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32651781
I forgot all about the BNP
Some new Labour MP is married to the PM of Denmark
Britain is not England. Britain is England, Scotland, Wales and NI.
The figures are 92.1% white, with another 1/2 mixed race, so possibly overall nearer to 93. Scotland, NI and Wales are all 99% or close to it white.
And very small parts contrary to FR/US myth. The ethnic pops of the UK date from the 1948 to 1972 period, from the Wiundrush to the expulsion of Amin’s Asians from Uganda. Americans tend to have a very limited knowledge of this issue and modern UK history if I am being frank.
No, youre American. Irish blood, but you are not Irish.
Anymore than my Norman and Flemish family blood makes me French or Belgian.
The first Tory govt in 23 years and we are going dhimmi?.
This is true, in the same way that there isn't much difference between establishment Republicans like McCain, Romney and Bush vs. Clinton-type Democrats. Ed Miliband, however, is well to the Left of Tony Blair, in the same way as Obama is to the Left of Bill Clinton. So a Conservative Party win is a victory, albeit a very small one, for the right.
Why do Americans seriously think we are or are becoming a Muslim country?. The UK is still 96% NON Muslim and 92% white. Three parts of the UK have tiny Muslim and small ethnic populations. UK Muslims or extreme Muslims make a lot of noise, but have no political or even real social power.
We are no more a Muslim dhimmi country than you, the country who actually voted for a Muslim!. Who also has large Muslim populations. Funny Americans never ask the Muslim question of themselves.............
Too PC to them?., Yes, but that’s a million miles from this drivel that the UK is or will become a Muslim country. Also, UK Muslim birthrates have and are dropping. Oh and Muhammed isn’t the most popular UK name so don’t reply with that old chestnut.
I wish freepers and Americans would come to the UK and see how off their perceptions of the UK are, esp outside of London.
Cameron won because Labour and the SNP did such a great job terrifying UK voters about what life would be like without Tories, iow, Britons showed up to vote. SNP expanded at the expense of Labour, and both Labour and Conservative candidates drew off Liberal Dem voters.
In 2013 Cameron pledge a UK referendum on the EU in 2017, if only the voters gave him an outright majority in 2015. They have.
A cab ride in any British city might do that to you.
I would consider pulling up a Russell Brand vid if it was his actual suicide.
Charlotte Church went all ugly about the Tories’ victory, but of course, she’s from Wales I believe.
You mean places like Luton, Coventry, Birmingham, Leicester, Leeds, Bradford, Blackburn, etc.?
Or do you mean places like Woodbridge, Ashby-de-La-Zouch, Bourton-on-the-Water, Beaulieu, Hunstanton, Buxton, Alnwick, Dunkeld, etc.?
Upon meeting a geezer in Buckie, the first words out of his mouth to me were "how many guns ye own?"
Methinks perceptions are a two-way street across the Atlantic.
rofl
I suspect those who might have held their nose to vote BNP in the past had supported UKIP most recently, (until yesterday).
Can’t really blame him for marrying her, btw. ;’)
Votes-to-seats disparity -- The UK's first-past-the-post system means that the number of votes rarely translates into an equivalent proportion of seats. And that was especially true in this election. The SNP won 56 seats from 1.45 million votes, a share of 4.8%. But by mid-morning on Friday UKIP had won only one seat for their 3.87 million votes, a 12.7% share of the total. The Greens' 1.15 million votes translated into one seat too, while the Lib Dems won eight seats despite winning nearly 2.4 million votes, a 7.8% share.
UKIP won 12.6% of the vote, as much as the Scottish Nationalist Party and Liberal Democrats combined. They failed to pick up constituencies both because their votes were spread over a larger area and because of the corrupt way taht districts were created. Also, the media campaign against UKIP and the fear of the Labour and Celtic false nationalists forming a government pushed many to vote for the wet Tories, who would not otherwise have done so.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election/2015/results
Another headline from The Mirror
“Lily Allen distraught as Tories steal* seats - star considers emigrating”
*WTF?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/general-election-2015-lily-allen-5660197
15 years after W Bush first won and Alec Baldwin is still here in the US.
It might be that when people visit the UK, all they end up seeing are muslims and kebab shops. Just like if you visit Canada. You may readily believe you are in Syria, China or the Punjab. The canadian figure is "only" 3.5%, if you believe these official figures (which I don't btw.)
The UK is still 96% NON Muslim
I think it is almost 5% now. 5% was enough to completely bugger the Netherlands.
I knew that the right-of-center parties had gotten around 50% of the vote, but didn’t know that it was their first majority since 1935. Thanks for posting the info.
It is amazing how after a political defeat in that country, the head of the party resigns about twenty minutes after the vote is called. Here, they fail UPWARDS. Of course, as someone else said, Farage may just be in the desert for a few years, who knows? He may have a grand comeback.
I know there’s a large amount of people who seem to want proportional representation in GB - at least according to my friends.
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