The Election Aftermath

by Craig Chapman - 14:49 on 07 May 2010

This blog will grow as developments are made.

On Thursday morning, I elbowed my way into a debate on BBC WM Radio - The Phil Upton Show - with the question....

"Why have Birmingham and Coventry people voted in all of their local Labour candidates. These are great manufacturing cities and Labour's policies have ruined endless business' ability to employ staff. Don't the local people want jobs ?

As the debate went on, I was asked "Craig, you voted Tory, so what would you like to see Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg doing now ? To which I replied, "I don't really care about the LibDems and their policies, they haven't got many seats, but I would like to see Gordon Brown in court on a Treason charge."

Needless to say my participation ended there. Is this a first on the BBC ? It won't be the last.

Popular Alliance spent several months last year trying to bring together the smaller parties as a Democratic Alliance. Unfortunately, countless egos led to this falling apart before it really got started - some parties just assumed they were swelling their own ranks and keeping their own policies. Now looking through the election results, we can see that the smaller parties really do need to stand together to make any headway.

UKIP - averaged between 2-7% in most constituencies. Best one-off results were Biggles Farage in Buckingham with 21.4% (3rd place), 9.5% in Boston and 7.2% in North Devon. UKIP generally were the main party outside of the big 3, in southern counties.

BNP - polled lower than UKIP down south and averaged 400-2000 in many northern constituencies. Their leader polled 14.6% in Barking (3rd), and the Burnley and Stoke seats they planned to win saw just 9,8,9 & 9.1% of the votes. Their percentages also just made double figures in Rotherham & Dagenham. BNP were not invited to the Democratic Alliance meetings.

Respect, the ranting muslim party, stood 5 or so candidates in heavily muslim populated areas and saw 25, 16 & 17% votes at best and 3% in Bradford where an Indian did far better. Naturally, these idiots were not invited to the Democratic Alliance either !!

English Democrats had an appalling day. Their prized Doncaster candidate scraped 4th place with very few votes and other party officials averaged between 200-1005 votes, with one guy not making three digits. So much for their 300+ candidates.

The Greens of course gained their first MP in Brighton with 31.3% of the vote, although elsewhere, they did very poorly.

Christian Party were banking on a couple of seats and had huge finance, but 45 minutes of teletext trawling failed to unearth a single candidate. Jury Party - likewise !!

OK, Popular Alliance didn't do any better, mainly because we saw these elections as too important to fiddle around at the lower end of voting. Gordon Brown had to be defeated and 1000 votes won in any of the constituecies we could have stood in, may well have taken vital votes off the Tories in marginal seats. I think we all voted Tory too. Our day will come, but we have to use our heads as well as our hearts.

Just think what UKIP, BNP, ED, etc might have done in some marginals. A quite possible combined 2500 votes for anti-left wing candidates might have handed the Tories the majority government this country needs right now, without having pander to flimsy LibDems to make it over the line and remove the unelected and now failed, evil squatter in No10.

Popular Alliance are gobsmacked at how many votes such a lame Labour party achieved. They couldn't have done much worse over the last 13 years - record debt, record immigrants population, record smudged jobless figures, record unemployed teenagers, parliamentary pocket lining, appaling economy, out of control banks and the most arrogant of leaders who really do not consider anyone else's input. And still some of them think they should not vacate No10 and there is talk of sitting another unelected imposter in No10 too ???

So Mr Cameron is talking to The LibDems. I can't see it working myself as the Tories are voted in with their own path to tread whilst the LibDems have too great opinion of their own warped versions of EU policies and barely 20% of the number of seats that the Tories have. But who knows, getting Vince Cable involved in the economy and Simon Hughes on the climate side of things might help, perhaps the rest could make tea or something ?

Finally, as we are (please please God) nearing the end of Gordon Brown's haunting of our polictial outlook, I have finally worked out why he looks so damn odd. His colleagues say he has a Radio face, but I suggest he is not made of skin and bone, rather, he has been knitted - and not very well.

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