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Nick Clegg
Well there you go then!
Who? Me?
What a day!
The big winner is Nick Clegg.
Imagine, “noone had heard of him” before the first leaders debate. Tonight he is Deputy Prime Minister!
This is a huge personal triumph, surely reserving his place in history as he could never have dreamed.
Clegg Close To Cocking It Up
I’m really fearful that Clegg is close to cocking it all up. He’s managed to retain a great deal of goodwill throughout this election campaign but now he seems to be losing the plot. He promised the country that he would deal with the Tories first but in fact he’s been double dealing. This will rightly infuriate those on the Tory right who have gone much, much further than might have been expected. Clegg needs to get back to the principled position he originally held and do the deal with the Tories. If not there will be no bigger loser than Clegg himself.
There Can Only Be One Choice For Clegg
If Nick Clegg chooses Labour then he will be consigning this country to disaster and his own reputation and integrity to the dustbin.
Stop Dithering!
There can be no other choice than the Conservatives. David Cameron is clearly the prime minister that the country wants. The country has rejected Labour and the mathematics of a Lib Dem/Labour coalition simply do not work.
Clegg now needs to stop dithering, push back the sandals and socks soft socialists in his own party and choose the future that the country needs.
The Labour Leadership
Please, not David Milliband. He’s far, far too credible. Not Alan Johnson either. Apart from his catastrophe over cannabis, he’s a man I can admire.
We want Harriet Harman or Ed Balls! The choice is delightful and makes me salivate at the very thought of either of these jokers heading up the Labour Party. That would be the funniest thing in politics since Spitting Image!
Shusshh! Quiet…
Vote Ed! Vote Harriet!
Tories Need Electoral Reform Too
I would have thought it was obvious after the unsatisfactory result of this election that Tories need electoral reform too. It should definitely not be a dealbreaker between the Tories and Lib Dems. In fact, I’ll go further, David Cameron should offer a referendum on the issue – why not?
A redrawing of constituency boundaries so that each seat has the same number of voters would in itself be a more proportional form of representation. I also think that a fixed term of office would lead to fairer and more sensible government.
David Cameron has an opportunity now to become prime minister and usher in a new, fairer, brighter politics. If he misses this chance then he will have let down the British people as well as the Tory party and himself. Brown, at last, thank God, is gone. At least we can be grateful for that and, yes, eventually, he did find some dignity in his defeat.
Britain Has A New Leader
What a magnificent, statesmanlike, exciting and constructive statement from David Cameron. He and Nick Clegg stand head and shoulders above the putrid, stubborn and dishonest loser Gordon Brown.
Brown must resign now. He is yesterday’s man.
Maybe I was wrong. Perhaps this result will prove to have been a good thing if it produces the sort of constructive politics that Cameron and Clegg have both now demonstrated.
A Terrible Result
This is exactly what we didn’t need. It is a disaster. Overwhelmingly I am dismayed that so many Britons have voted for the tired, dishonest, discredited Labour party. I’m really not sure that I want to live in a country where there are eight million people who can behave like this.
Congratulations to Richard Drax for trouncing Jim Knight here in Dorset South and turning a Labour majority of 1800 into a Tory majority of 7500. That was exactly the result the whole country needed. Congratulations also to Caroline Lucas for winning the first ever Green seat.
Two of the blackest, bleakest events: Ed Balls retaining his seat, Harriet Harman back on the TV spouting her usual nonsense.
I feel sorry for the Lib Dems. It is a gross injustice and we are all diminished by their failure to gain more influence.
A terrible result.
If The BBC Exit Poll Is Right…
…then it is a travesty and a tragedy for the Lib Dems.
Peter Reynolds 