My condolences to any Labour supporters posting here tonight.

[LeftishBrit]

7. What a hopeless, horrible mess

A lot of this is due to the SNP doing so well in Scotland, and to the LD vote in England being apparently replaced by UKIP, to the extent that they harmed Labour at least as much as the Tories.

The Labour campaign was not inspiring, but I think one of the main issues is that the right-wing press were successful in the fear campaigns. As they so often are. Another 1992 when 'it was the Sun (and the Hate--Mail and even the Times and Torygraph) wot won it'. Ed Miliband's big mistake was IMO ruling out a deal with the SNP so explicitly; this was doubtless him running scared from the right-wing hate-press, but it didn't stop them, and it made the Labour losses in Scotland still worse.

I am in despair really, and see no way forward. If I were younger and healthier and more mobile, I'd be considering emigration; though apart from all other considerations, most other countries seem to have even worse governments at the moment!

I mostly got the results on the Internet rather than on TV as I would NOT have been able to stand a night of watching Michael Gove strutting around gloating.