Failing to decisively beat a highly unpopular leader after 13 years of Labour, one who happens to have been in charge during a world financial crisis, and with the ridiculous level of support Cameron received in the media. Virtually all the papers yesterday were loudly cheerleading for Cameron, with the Mail claiming not voting for him would bring about armageddon.

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Well he has run a piss poor campaign and has looked really rather dull.

Even with almost all the papers cheering for him and a huge poll lead he can't get to 40% vote.

Weak. he is only a puppet for the neo cons anyway.

There's not many people I'll say this about, but cameron is a straight up c**t. The most evil man in politics by some margin.

The most evil man in politics by some margin.

really? more so than Nick 'decorated war hero' Griffin?

lol

What was he, 20% up in the polls last year?

It takes some serious mismanagement to not be able to convert that

Time for him to go? nah, let him stay 😉

It takes some serious mismanagement to not be able to convert that

<shudders> Brown might have been indifferent to poor but I'd hate to think how badly Cameron might have been. Piss up? Brewery? Weak shandies all round from the blue jellybaby.

Very good point uplink 🙂

After 3 Labour terms and their various failings even I as a socialist would not particularly have minded a moderate tory govt this time. Except not Dave, he just seems the most offensive vacuous mudslinging whining GIT who can't be bothered to get his party to come up with policies and just wants to be PM to make himself feel big.

Dick.

I personally find it quite amusing that with all the rags (Mirror excluded) campaigning openly for Cameron that the Tories still haven't got a majority. I think that's known as 'lack of faith'.

if you can't win a one horse race you shouldn't be running and on reflection i think labour will be pretty pleased.

Looks like Labour have decisively lost power to me!

I think he knew this was in the post. He started to look increasingly manic over the last few days. He'd developed the Blair style serial-killer grin.

I'd have killed to have seen the look on his face when the news of his no-overall-majority was delivered

Let him stay – as above! However, I suspect the deranged right wing of the party will now try to unseat him and put in one of their own barking swivel-eyed maniacs; that should be good for a healthy loss of support if we have another election.

It was wonderful to see his face when he realised he wasn't going to do it…….

Maybe the result reflects the declining influence of the newspapers and that other forms of media have become decisive. Headlines 'Singletrack keeps Cameron out of office'?

Looks like Labour have decisively lost power to me!

But power has become elusive. Labour might have dropped the soap but noone's picked it up.

What I'm quite curious about is how Murdoch will 'advise' the Times/Sun editorial position. Despite the full weight of Murdoch's media empire being behind him, his candidate failed to win; could psycho jellybaby rely upon the same level of support x months down the line?

Looks like Labour have decisively lost power to me!

Election understanding fail.

It was wonderful to see his face when he realised he wasn't going to do it…….

Any clips of this online? 🙂

Do you know what the only thing that has saved Brown is they way we vote in the UK and the TV debaits. The Tories have 3,000,000 more votes than Labour which to me is quite a big lead. Cameron was pretty much the only politician saying we need to make cuts now to clear the amazing amount of money we owe. Labour are only going to prolong the pain of cuts. We owe the same sort of money as Greece FFS and like it or not we are going have to make cuts. Full stop.
That is why people didn't vote Cameron.

2,000,000 not 3,000,000

Everyone knows we are going to have to make cuts the debate is over when to do it and how to do it. The tories have clearly shown they favour the rich by announcing tax cuts for them, so imagine what they would do for public services – privatise everything and **** the poor, it's their own fault.

Last time the tories where in power everything looked fine. They are experts at manipulation and covering up. The road or rail and just about everything else from education to health was on the verge of collapse.

Labour just spent a lot of time digging us out of the whole the tories dug us into last time round, however the bottom line is politics doesn't work as those in charge have no capacity to efficiently manage resources.

every one who can manage resources effectively is in business, they don't have to answer to fools and they get paid a lot more than most politicians, without all the stress or odd looking bed fellows.

The way I see it, what's needed is to get all the talented people out of conventional business, because it only really benefits the rich.

We need to get them making money that goes back into our lives and benefits us all.

Politics is just a smoke screen to distract us from our lack of proper leadership as a people.

Name one political party! that when they lost an election didn't turn out to be scum bags or incompetent?

Grum – the best "still" I've seen is currently on the front page of http://www.ft.com

Sucking lemons steeped in vinegar comes to mind.

Wouldn't gloat over Cons 'losing' the election. The party that gets in is gonna be the most unpopular for many many years and potentially may implode the Labour party once they start having to do the deep cuts, lose jobs etc.

2 years down the line you might find a massive Con majority after the LibLab coalition blows up.

the best "still" I've seen is currently on the front page of http://www.ft.com

That's a face that says, "Yip, I've blown it."

People don't like Cameron because he's posh and this thing about him favouring the rich is crap, I'm self employed (and not rich) and things like fuel being £1.25 a litre are taking massive chunks of money out of my business. Brown chancellor before he was PM and a big part of the debt problems we're having. IMO OK

64% of voters don't want Cameron.

Clegg is almost as posh as Cameron, or at least he went to similar schools.

Was there ever that level of support for him though?

Remember who owns the press. He is beholden to Murdoch et al, so maybe we have just been very lucky.

The sooner politicians are not able to accept donations from anyone other than a registered voter in their electorate the better. Companies and ultra rich people should not be be in a position to dictate our government policy.

64% of voters don't want Cameron.

Who are the most popular potential Tory leaders?

Who are the most popular potential Tory leaders?

If I had a vote, I'd choose Gideon Osborne 😉

Sucking lemons steeped in vinegar comes to mind.

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People don't like Cameron because he's posh and this thing about him favouring the rich is crap, I'm self employed (and not rich) and things like fuel being £1.25 a litre are taking massive chunks of money out of my business.

The rise in fuel prices is almost entirely due to oil prices though – in fact the high proportion of tax we pay on fuel means that we are more insulated from fluctuations in oil prices than some countries.

epicyclo – absolutely

We owe the same sort of money as Greece FFS and like it or not we are going have to make cuts. Full stop.

Gosh, we've got 6 times their population and 6 times their GDP and we owe the same as them – that does sound bad.

We owe the same sort of money as Greece FFS

But the Daily Mail said unless the Tories win there would be riots in the streets and the country would burn. 😕

Lets see him lead a minority government for a few months and then disappear from the face of the political earth. I'd really enjoy seeing him try. Apart from having to look at his damp and pasty face of course.

This was arguably the election to lose – to make the cuts needed to cover the debt will make whoever gets in hugely unpopular, and make their re-election nigh on impossible.

Unless we could persuade a south american dictatorship to invade an unknown protectorate of ours so we could have an early election on the back of a jingo-istic feegood factor……

Unless we could persuade a south american dictatorship to invade an unknown protectorate of ours so we could have an early election on the back of a jingo-istic feegood factor……

I reckon Saint Helena could be a good venue, although the Isles of Scilly would be more convenient.

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This was arguably the election to lose – to make the cuts needed to cover the debt will make whoever gets in hugely unpopular, and make their re-election nigh on impossible.

And the crucial thing is because none of the parties made their cuts clear in the campaign, none of them have a mandate from the voters to make those cuts.

I reckon Saint Helena could be a good venue, although the Isles of Scilly would be more convenient.

If we could do this while raping public services, destroying education and killing the manufacturing industry it'd be just like the good old days! 😀

I reckon if Cameron went for some ski-chic googles and maybe a shemagh he could carry this off:

f**king puffy-faced c**t, i'll be ashamed to be part of a country that could choose him as a PM