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Of course it did, you clown! The common theme is who they were encouraging people NOT to vote for. The Sun "Vote Tory" The Scottish Sun "Vote SNP (not Labour)"

I have no default position, flawed or otherwise. I do though, recognise that there ARE plenty of vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our society. If you do not, or do not think that there are legitimate concerns over how they will be affected by massive cuts to already underfunded services...

Good grief. It is to David's family members' massive credit, that despite their own personal success, they are still unhappy and concerned at the plight of others. I care not that you later pretend you weren't serious - the state of contentment you wish to confer on them - that they should...

The UKIP vote is much more difficult to call. You are correct of course, that a lot of them would be natural right-leaning Tories. Plenty of them though are disaffected LibDems, or single issue voters, for whom none of the main parties appealed.

Because this discussion is mostly about ideology, and those two parties are United in being diametrically opposed to that of the Tories. Anyway, the point stands - even if you discount the SNP, it was still Con 11.3m Lab 9.3m - certainly not what could be described as 'not even close'.

In terms of seats, you are quite right, of course. In terms of the actual mood of the populace, it was very close indeed. The Conservatives polled 11.3m votes. Labour, with the similarly leftist SNP, polled 10.8m.

36.9% is quite a long way short of 'over half'.

Excellent post. The reason we are 'bitter', is because this stuff actually matters, and (in our opinion, obviously) the nation came to a fork in the road, and collectively chose the wrong path. We are all (again, in our opinion) going to suffer the consequences of that decision, whoever we...