General Election 2015 Results. Conservatives Win! It's 5 More Years Of Hell Under David Cameron

It's all over now, or at least we'll soon wish it was - life I mean.

The UK General Election is over, the Tory Party won with a majority of 331 seats, 51% of the votes.
Or more accurately, Rupert Murdoch performed brilliantly by winning this election.
And if you thought things in Britain were bad before the general election, I fear it's about to get a lot worse.

Unfortunately the result of the general election 2015 turned out to be exactly what I'd expected.
The right-wing media have done Dave proud, all of their negative press about Ed Miliband worked; he's out, and Cameron is in.

I actually wrote this blog post in my semi-asleep state last night in bed. I couldn't sleep, so I wrote a blog post about David Cameron, the Conservatives, winning the General Election 2015.
This was before the results had been announced, obviously. That's how sure I was that Dave would be the Prime Minister of Britain.
The blog post I wrote was, in my opinion, very good; it was witty, and short - just one paragraph; about 7 lines of text.
And yet when I woke-up this morning, having finally managed to fall asleep, I couldn't remember my blog post at all. Frustrating for me, and unfortunate for you dear reader if you are reading this longer than intended blog post.
Oh well, whatever!

The End is Nigh......

So, back to the result of the general election 2015.
I am saddened and disappointed by many things about this general election, one of which is the way Britain has adopted an American attitude to voting. It seems that instead of the electorate concentrating on the policies each of the political parties stands for, and deciding which party to vote for accordingly, they are more concerned with the party leaders. If they don't like the leader, they don't vote for the party.
Eeejits!
We should not be voting for a person because of their personality or good looks, or lack of either or both, we should vote for the party who most fits our ideas of how things should be governed.

Quite frankly I couldn't give a feck what their personality is like, I mean it's not important to me that I like the party leaders. Yes, it's good if I like them, but if not, so what - it's whether I agree with their policies that's important to me. As it should be with every voter.
It should be about the job they are doing, not whether they are considered good-looking, ugly, fat, thin, scruffy etc.

I am convinced that with David Cameron remaining in Number 10, and not as part of an unelected coalition this time, but as the Prime Minister alone, he will wreak havoc on Britain.
If you want proof, it's only been a matter of hours since Cameron won the general election, and there are three more people who have lost their jobs.

I am of course referring to the resignations of Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, and Ed Miliband.

I know I've said it before, in the two blog posts I posed prior to this blog post, but I'll say it again - our whole political system is buggered, it needs a serious shake-up to sort it out.
But now that the Conservatives are in sole control of the sheep, I doubt it'll happen. I mean the current system suits them fine, more than fine- without it they wouldn't have won.

For example Nicola Sturgeon SNP, received 1.5 million votes, and gained 56 seats.
UKIP, received 4 million votes, and gained 1 seat.
As I have also said in previous blog posts I am not a UKIP supporter, and I'm not a mathematician either, but I don't have to be to work-out that that's ridiculous.
UKIP should quite clearly have more than 1 seat - a lot more.

I didn't stay up all night watching the general election news, mainly because I knew that David Cameron was set to remain in Downing Street, but I did spend quite a long time scrolling the #GE2015 tweets on twitter.
The general consensus is that we're fecked!
Yep, having a Conservative government for the next 5 years is not good news.
Obviously the Tory supporters were pretty quiet on twitter, well, they would be wouldn't they? They've won, they don't need to comment.
But the labour supporters comments were being tweeted about a hundred times faster than I could read them - and retweet them. I'm going to be very busy deleting all of my tweets, again, having recently deleted 11,000 of them, and taken what I intended to be a permanent break from twitter - it's bad for my health - gets me all riled-up, and is often way too negative.
But I couldn't resist taking a peek at twitter last night because I know it's the place to go online when I want to know what's going on, it's far more up-to-date than any other news outlets.

I must have read hundreds of tweets about the general election 2015, most of which were scarily true, some of which were funny, and others which were seriously sad.

There's one thing the tweets, as different as they were all worded, had in common - Britain is set for trouble.
Things are going to get worse. A lot lot worse. There is no silver lining.

Here's roughly what a lot of people were saying about the Conservatives winning this general election -

• Now the Tory party are in Number 10 for the next 5 years, you'd better pray you're not poor, disabled, ill, or a pensioner. 
• Real result of this election - too many trees died for so little purpose.
• Labour should have repeatedly shouted, “We are anti-austerity, unlike the Tories!'' 
• I'm off to bed. Call me up in five years. 
• This election result is a victory for the establishment, whose intense media campaign has worked. The number of people using food-banks, and the number of homeless people will increase dramatically, an no doubt so will the number of suicides by people who are so desperate and without hope. 
• For the next 5 years there will be lots more theft, and many more deaths. 
• The national debt will rapidly rise to an obscene level, as will the number of billionaires. 
• David Cameron obviously underestimated just how thick the British public were, until today, the look of shock on his face that he'd won outright says it all.
• The general election 2015 was a shamocracy!

So, yep, that's it - it's all over.
What do you think we've got to look forward to?
I think they'll be more money wasted on Trident, more charities having to set-up food-banks, the NHS will continue be sold off, more people will become homeless, the bankers will become even more corrupt and rich, and it wouldn't surprise me in America phones Number 10 and demands we enter into another war somewhere, and benefits will be lowered to a disturbingly low rate.
Although I'm certain the biggest benefits claimants, by which I mean scroungers, will be perfectly fine. I am of course referring to the family who cost Britain the most money - the royal family. But that's a slightly different topic so I'll say no more.

Anyway, that's just a few things that instantly come to mind, I'm not sure I'm brave enough to think too deeply about it all just yet - I haven't had any wine yet today.

Seriously though, I dread to imagine what is going to happen now.
I am genuinely concerned for the poor, the vulnerable, and all of the people who will be seriously negatively affected by having David Cameron and the Tory party in power for the next 5 years.
Just writing that last sentence sent a shudder down my spine.
The end is not nigh - it's here!
Feel free to express your thoughts in the comments.
Are you pleased that David Cameron is to remain in Number 10?
Do you think it's a good thing for Britain that the Conservatives will be running things for the next 5 years?

General Election 2015 - It's All Nonsense!

Today's the day.
Voting for the General Election 2015 commenced this morning.

I don't think the local residents where I live have been particularly gripped by election fever, but it is usually very empty here, I mean there are never very many people wandering about, but today there are people everywhere - presumably coming and going from the polling station.

As much as I am interested in politics, this election hasn't got me gripped. 

None of the political parties are saying much about their plans, and what they are saying is the usual crap they think we want to hear. 

The main reason I'm not overly participating in this election is because I truly believe that our while voting system is archaic and completely unfair. 

I know the UK had a referendum on proportional representation a while ago, but I missed it because I want in the country at that time. 

I am saddened that the general public didn't vote for it, but from what I've read since I've been back in Blighty, it was deliberately made too complicated for people to know what to vote for. Typical dodgy political behaviour!

I think we should definitely have proportional representation in Britain. 

I think the general election should be more about voting for the particular political party of your choice, and not about the party leaders. Who really cares if David Cameron is a complete muppet, or if Ed Miliband eats a bacon sarnie in a certain way, or if Nigel Farage is drunk, or Nicola Sturgeon looks like Sandy Toksvig? 

It shouldn't be important, the media shouldn't bang-on and on about these things, they should stop focusing on character assassinations and concentrate on the important issues.

Barley, our lovely Lurcher - as I said in my blog post yesterdays, he'd make a better Prime Minister than David Cameron - he's better looking too :)

Come voting day, I think voters should be handed a piece of paper with all of the parties listed -

Conservative

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Green

UKIP

SNP

Blah, blah, blah...........

Voters should simply tick the box next to the political party they want in Number 10. 

I don't think there needs to be anything else on the ballot papers, no names of the politicians etc. after all we are really voting for the political party we hope will win the general election - we're not really voting for our local MPs.
It shouldn't be about seats. The way it is now. It's just not a fair system that someone like say, Nigel Farage could possibly receive 15% of the votes but he would only get 1% of the seats in parliament.
How is that fair?
That is not to say I want Nigel Farage running anything in Britain, or that I wouldn't; it's not about my feelings towards Nigel Farage - I'm just using him to make my point.

They say we live in a democracy. But how is our current voting system democratic?
It isn't!
Britain is not a democracy. 

Then once voting in the general election has closed, all the votes should be counted, and whichever political party has the most votes - wins. Simple! And not only would that be a much simpler way to carry out the general election, it would be fair too. The people of Britain would be governed by the political party who most people wanted - what's fairer than that?

Oh, how I wish things were as they should be. By which I obviously mean how I think they should be. 

Maybe I should be in charge of Britain? Or am I sounding like a know-it-all? Hehe!

I just don't want to think about how ridiculously outdated and unfair the whole system is. 

I have deliberately ignored all of the TV news today, and I haven't read anything political online about the general election. And I'm not in a rush to find out who wins either. 

No doubt I'll find out some time tomorrow, as it'll be all over the news - obviously. 

Right, that's it!

I hadn't intended to write another blog post about the general election - after my long rambling post that I wrote yesterday, but I couldn't resist. 

But hey, at least this one is short, and to the point. Well, more to the point than yesterday's blog post anyway.
And I've uploaded another photo of our gorgeous boy, Barley the Lurcher, and he definitely has my vote. 

Happy voting!

What do you think about our political system?
Do you think it's outdated and unfair?
Did you vote in the proportional representation referendum? 
Or, do you have anything you feel like sharing? If so leave me a comment. :)

Countdown To The UK General Election 2015 - Exciting Innit!?

It's almost time for the General Election 2015.

Will we end up with an unelected coalition again, who will govern us for the next 5 years, despite the fact that not one single person in the United Kingdom chose them?

Will it be 'Goodbye Dave!' as Mr.Cameron is kicked out of Downing Street?

Or will there be a Labour SNP coalition, despite Ed Miliband saying he won't get into bed with Nicola Sturgeon?

Or will there be a miracle, and will the people of Great Britain finally have a government that cares about them, doesn't constantly tell them lies, cheat and abuse the system, and doesn't put other countries needs before our own? By which I mean a government lead by our lovely Lurcher, Barley.
I am serious!
Barley is a very clever boy, and I know he would make a much better leader than the muppet who is currently in Number 10.

Barley the Lurcher for Prime Minister of Britain!

But, if the miracle I am chanting for, Barley our Lurcher being the new Prime Minister, does not come to fruition, then I guess not much will change.
Not much will change, because as I'm certain we all realise, politicians just do not care about the electorate.
They truly only care about themselves. Well, maybe a few do care about us, but sadly the majority do not.
I'm not being deliberately negative, there is proof of how little the current Conservative government cares about its people.
It is because of them that the United Kingdom is in the mess it's in. Austerity is there favourite word, as long as it doesn't include them, or their family and friends.

It is because of the Tories that there are reportedly ONE MILLION people using food banks.
And if one million is the reported figure, it's probably actually double that number - at least. The right-wing news are not beyond fudging figures to make the Conservative Party look good.

Lately I've been wondering just how ignorant of the facts the general public are. I mean, does anyone honestly believe David Cameron when he claims that he's created a gazillion jobs? I know that's not the exact figure he quoted, but it may just as well have been, because it's all lies.
Anyone with a functioning brain cell knows that Dave manipulates the unemployment figures to suit whatever lies he wants to flog.

And what about when Dave says he's going to make further benefit cuts, 12 BILLION QUIDS worth of benefit cuts.
It's news like this that appeals to the ignorant, uneducated, or simply blinkered sheep, who read the Daily Mail and believe everything David Cameron tells them.
I find it difficult to understand how the sheep can believe a word that comes out of his mouth. Don't they know that 'benefit claimants' are not all unemployed, lazy, Jeremy Kyle fans, who sit around on their bums all day smoking joints, and drinking cans of Special Brew?
Sadly, they probably don't know that 50% of people who are claiming benefits are actually working, they are employed, they are hard-working people. But they have no choice but to claim benefits because they don't earn enough to support themselves and their families.
Why?
Well, one reason is because of the short term employment contracts, which basically allow the employer to abuse their staff with obscenely low wages, no benefits whatsoever, and no stability. How are people supposed to live under circumstances like that? How can they pay their mortgages, or rent, pay bills, buy food? Simply answer, they can't.
But what do the Tories care? They don't.
I'm sure they're only too happy that the 'peasants' are struggling, and in some cases dying. Yes, people have died because of the austerity measures the Conservative party implemented. People have felt so alone, and have struggled to survive living in poverty, that it all became too much for them and they committed suicide.
Less people, means less problems for our government. A few less is a good thing, but not too many too less, otherwise there would be no one paying tax, and then our politicians would be as broke as millions of people who are living in Britain are today.

What will the 7th of May 2015 bring? A new day, or more of the same?

I do wonder about the people of Blighty, I mean is it me or are we/they scarily stupid? How on earth did we/they put up with the evil non-elected government for the last 5 yrs? And why?
We should be more vocal about these issues. After all, the politicians work for us. Or at least they should, but in reality they work for themselves, and not very hard work at that. Many of them have second or third jobs, and not because they're struggling to make ends meet, but because they are coining in by charging obscene amounts of cash for the work outside of parliament.

I think our politicians should be full-time, only have the one - as a politician.
And there should be less of them.
We have 750 of them! That's ridiculous! You only have to tune into any filming inside parliament to see that most days there are only a handful of MP's in attendance.
Where are they all?
Well, there are probably quite a few stuffing their faces with cheap food and wine in the restaurant in the houses of parliament. And by cheap food, I don't mean it's cheap quality, I mean it's seriously subsidised, which is why they are more than happy to stuff themselves.
Food banks don't even register on their radar.

This blog post may sound like I am seriously against the Conservative Party, I'm not saying they haven't been successful because they have. They have been extremely successful, with the help of the right-wing media, in demonising everyone who claims benefits.
If I had £1 for every time I've read an online comment about how 'us taxpayers are fed-up paying for benefits scroungers... blah blah blah' I'd be a multi-millionaire - just like David Cameron and his work-shy cronies.
What the people who write such nonsensical comments don't seem to realise is that we are all taxpayers. Everything we buy is taxed. Tax isn't all about the seriously high amount of money that the government take from your wages. Every single time we make a purchase we are paying tax.
So it is unfathomable that the people who write those comments think of themselves as different to other people, for example people who may not be employed. Just because someone doesn't have a job and earn a wage, it doesn't mean they don't pay any tax. Of course they are not paying as much tax as someone who is working and receiving a regular income, but then they don't have as much money, so they couldn't pay more tax - even if they wanted to.

Roses are red, violets are blue... Who will you vote for, Tories, Labour, or other?

Oh bugger!
I spent most of this morning, all of this afternoon, and some of this evening, debating about whether I would write and publish this blog post.
I decided I was going to, and I wasn't going to - I'm contrary.
I decided I was going to write about today being the last day before the General Election 2015, and when I was out walking with Barley, you know our lovely Lurcher, and if we lived in an ideal World - the new Prime Minister of Britain, I wrote it in my head many times, and it was short, and to the point.
Yep, I said short and to the point, which is why I finally just sat down and started typing a few minutes ago.
But as is obvious, this blog post is not short, or to the point. I am frustrated with myself that it's so long, and rambling.
I honestly only intended to write a few sentences, and not bang-on about the failings of David Cameron and the Tory party. Thankfully I am too tired, and my eyes are too sore (hay-fever and dog allergy), to bother writing down all of Camerons failings, good god, there are so many, and that would take so long, it's be the next General Election before I finished.

As I am flitting about all over the place with this blog post, and not sticking to the point I initially intended to make, I will say one more thing before I leave you in peace dear reader - that is assuming (yes, I know it makes an arse...) that anyone is actually reading this.
Maybe David Cameron is reading? Or Ed Miliband? If you are, I am available to tell you where you went wrong, and/or where you can improve. Contact me by commenting!
Er, where was I? Oh yeah, one last point, my mind is whirring....... Yep, General Election 2015, yada, yada, yada........ Voting! Votes! It's all about votes, obviously, which is interesting, I mean you may well think I am going to vote for the Labour party tomorrow.
Well, who I vote for is my business and mine alone, or at least it would be - if I was voting.
No, I am not obeying Russell Brand and his 'don't vote' diatribe. Or has he changed his mind and said we should all vote? He has, hasn't he? I can't keep up with these fickle folk.
The reason I probably won't be voting in the General Election 2015 is because it is highly unlikely that I will be able to.
Why?
Because my polling card has yet to arrive. It is now almost 7pm on the evening before us 'Hoi Polloi' are allowed to vote, and there's no sign of it. Mr.R received his polling card in the mail yesterday morning.
So, yeah, basically, I am ranting on an on about politics, politicians, and the General Election 2015 and I won't be voting.
Hmm, I am so pleased, glad, over-the-moon that I am living in a democracy. Ha! Don't make me laugh, Britain is not a democracy, we do not live in a democratic society - so I guess that's why I won't be able to vote tomorrow.
I wonder how many other people won't have received their polling card in time to vote in the General Election 2015?

Right, that is it, honestly, I am all out of rants....... for now.
I have absolutely no intention of watching the General Election 2015.
During our last General Election I sat glued to the TV. But this time I'm planning to pretend it's not happening. I'm going to pretend all is right with the World, or with Britain anyway, I'll don some rose-tinted specs, play with Barley, and chant for all of the people who are going to be shafted even more by further austerity cuts if David Cameron remains in power.
How anyone can vote for David Cameron when he has clearly said he'll make more benefit cuts, but refused to say where exactly, let alone clearly, is seriously beyond my understanding. It's as though Tory voters are all masochists, they want things to be worse, presumably because they think it won't affect them - little knowing that Dave is more than happy to shaft everybody; the lazy work-shy benefit scroungers, the full-time employed, or those on short term contracts. Everyone is fair game to him and his pals.

Oops, I rambled on again, despite saying I was finished. Ha! Oh well, if you've read my blog posts before, I'm sure that's no surprise to you.

Despite all this rambling, I know that as soon as I hit 'publish' I will think of a billion other things I wanted to say, and no doubt they'll be far more eloquent in my head than they would be in type.
Hey-ho, whatever, it doesn't really matter does it?

Ooh, I just remembered one more thing, I read today that 33% of politicians rent property.
I hope they're managing to survive, I hope they don't end up having to use the food banks.
FOOD BANKS! Oh my god! My grandparents are dead, but if they were still alive, they wouldn't believe Britain had sunk so low, FOOD BANKS! There shock would be completely understandable considering the UK is the sixth richest country in the World, or something like that - it depends what statistics you read.
But you get my point don't you? Britain is a seriously rich country, and yet we have food banks, and people are using them. It's all so very sad, and depressing.

Disclaimer: I don't get much sleep.
Lack of a decent nights sleep seriously affects my brain. 
I rarely know what way is up, so I may even be writing this blog post in my sleep - well, that's my excuse for anything/everything that may offend you. 

Here are some news articles you may find interesting - if you haven't already read them.

• The case for cuts was a lie. Why does Britain still believe it? The austerity illusion - The Guardian
• David Cameron and Ed Miliband eye deals in hung parliament - Financial Times
• We Can Change Whatever We Want, by Russell Brand _ Huffington Post 
• David Cameron to declare victory on Friday without a coalition deal - Telegraph
• EXCLUSIVE: Why you MUST back Ukip wherever you live, says Nigel Farage - Express
• Nicola Sturgeon: There is not an anti-English bone in my body - Telegraph
• Nick Clegg: Tories do not represent the UK - Herald Scotland

I know what I think will be the result of the 2015 General Election, but what are your thoughts?
What would you like to see happen?
Who are you voting for? Or haven't you received your polling card yet either?