@mld-woody said:

Thank you for telling us what both sides should be and how we should all feel about it.

STAY HOT YA FUCK

Neither side should be those things. Both sides should be reasonable and moderate. At least their main players

nasty, judgemental, corrupt, and vicious politically as they want to be.

All for political benefit to their side.

Stuart said:

They did indeed.

God save the Queen.

@dste-ace said:

The UK is generally less extreme than the US, particularly on the right, so the conservatives are less conservative than republicans, the liberals are less liberal than the democrats. On the other end, labour are more left (socialist) than the democrats.

As a prominent former politician recently said, if you run a traditional left-wing part against a traditional right-wing party, you get the traditional results, ie a right-wing win. Labour this time was a traditional left wing party, and lost.

@gftchris said:

Admittedly not extremely knowledgeable when it comes to UK politics, but am I correct in

thinking that what Americans consider "conservative" these days is not comparable

to what is considered conservative in Britain?

Anyway, yeah, conservative majority it looks like. Can't say anybody, even the tories, expected that. Lib dems decimated, split roughly between labour and tories; SNP have taken 56/59 in scotland, on the main policy of separation from the UK, even though they lost a referendum on that last summer, which has crippled labour, who actually gained ground in England.

Cons - up 25 seats

Labour - down 25 seats

SNP - up 50 seats

Lib Dem - down 50 seats

UKIP have so far won one seat, for those interested.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

What I'm *not* in favour of is people being 'priced out' of voting. Require ID - for sure. Make certain, then, that everybody has some ID. One free at 18, then freebies every 10 years (new picture etc). It doesn't need much information even, but it also serves as proof of ID in other circumstances, like buying booze. Not everybody drives (and so has that license) and not everybody has a passport, because they're scared of other countries

@gftchris said:

Glad you see the light. People need ID to open a checking account, buy cigs/booze, get on an airplane, etc. Voter fraud is much to easy without official id.

Prime Minister David Cameron leads the Conservatives and the party's manifesto says: "We will support new sports in the UK, in particular through greater links with the U.S. National Football League, the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball, with the ultimate ambition of new franchises being based here."

If not for the immigrant vote Labour would be dead like the Lib Dems, especially in the South of England.

@westside-steve said:

It's really two major parties - the lib dems have only had any real say in the last election. I think because people have become disillusioned with the two major parties to a degree, and also people losing faith in labour under Brown, but not being able to bring themselves to vote tory.

Now we're back to two main parties, with three fringe parties.

WSS

@diehardbrownsfan said:

While I'd rather see the UK stay intact, we'd be better off economically without Scotland. For example, medical prescriptions and college tuition are free there - not in the rest of the UK. It's a real socialist place.