Mike Pouraryan
The UK Elections: Fascinating To Watch
May 7th 2010 04:39
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OMG!!!
As I continue to contemplate the next stage of "outsiders", I wanted to break my sabatical to talk about the UK elections. As I write this, I am monitoring BBC's live coverage of the UK elections coming in.
The votes are continuing to come in. The conservatives, led by David Cameron, are in the lead right now. The Labour Party is heading for defeat and a decisive defeat. What I am fascinated by is how the elections are counted, how all the candidates stand at a "count" being reported by a returns officer. I also am quite impressed with how the BBC is covering this. There is no bias at all and both the labour and the conservative lumaniries being interviewed are being given a tough go of it by the BBC presenters. The US networks must learn and learn a great deal from this even handed coverage and analysis of the election process. I realize it is wishful thinking--but one always have to be hopeful.
From what I am seeing, it appears that the UK will be faced with a hung parliament. A hung parliament means that a government will not have a majority. There are major swings towards Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats, though, seems to have fizzled out. There are no patterns emerging here. The old adage of all politics being local is being very much in play in the UK right now.
I eagerly await the onslaught by the so-called US Conservatives, though. I caught a glimpse of Hannity on Fox. Hannity noted the "Decisive" swing towards conservatives. He noted that the socialists were being kicked out. This blanket declaration by Hannity shows how stupid, idiotic and uninformed these guys are. David Cameron's ascendency was because he understood that he had to be different than the ravages of the Thatcher Era. He was the kind of guy who rode his bike to work, focused on some key issues and repeatedly underscored his committment to the National Health Service. Hannity and the rest of the Conservative Cabale need to listen to Cameron's keynote at the Conservative Conference. He also sought out to change the face of conservatives. If David Cameron was in the United States, he would have the same fate as Charlie Crist and all the other mainstream Republicans who seem to be eaten up by the Sarah Palin-Rush Limbaugh-Glen Beck crowd.
When the number of seats and the total number of votes cast are added up, the Conservatives are in the minority. But the British System is funny. The Conservatives are forecast to receive 37% of the vote. So, this notion of somehow the swing being a harbinger of the US Midterm elections is simply misguided and not correct by a long shot. What is clear is that the people did want change after 13 years of Labour Government.
Almost 450 races have been called. The Conservatives are 20 seat short of the majority based on the latest projections. There are a lot of smaller players that will serve as kingmakers. It will be fascinating to see how this turns out as Gordon Brown drove up to Labour Party Headquarters to assess his options. It is going to be tight.
The votes are continuing to come in. The conservatives, led by David Cameron, are in the lead right now. The Labour Party is heading for defeat and a decisive defeat. What I am fascinated by is how the elections are counted, how all the candidates stand at a "count" being reported by a returns officer. I also am quite impressed with how the BBC is covering this. There is no bias at all and both the labour and the conservative lumaniries being interviewed are being given a tough go of it by the BBC presenters. The US networks must learn and learn a great deal from this even handed coverage and analysis of the election process. I realize it is wishful thinking--but one always have to be hopeful.
From what I am seeing, it appears that the UK will be faced with a hung parliament. A hung parliament means that a government will not have a majority. There are major swings towards Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats, though, seems to have fizzled out. There are no patterns emerging here. The old adage of all politics being local is being very much in play in the UK right now.
I eagerly await the onslaught by the so-called US Conservatives, though. I caught a glimpse of Hannity on Fox. Hannity noted the "Decisive" swing towards conservatives. He noted that the socialists were being kicked out. This blanket declaration by Hannity shows how stupid, idiotic and uninformed these guys are. David Cameron's ascendency was because he understood that he had to be different than the ravages of the Thatcher Era. He was the kind of guy who rode his bike to work, focused on some key issues and repeatedly underscored his committment to the National Health Service. Hannity and the rest of the Conservative Cabale need to listen to Cameron's keynote at the Conservative Conference. He also sought out to change the face of conservatives. If David Cameron was in the United States, he would have the same fate as Charlie Crist and all the other mainstream Republicans who seem to be eaten up by the Sarah Palin-Rush Limbaugh-Glen Beck crowd.
When the number of seats and the total number of votes cast are added up, the Conservatives are in the minority. But the British System is funny. The Conservatives are forecast to receive 37% of the vote. So, this notion of somehow the swing being a harbinger of the US Midterm elections is simply misguided and not correct by a long shot. What is clear is that the people did want change after 13 years of Labour Government.
Almost 450 races have been called. The Conservatives are 20 seat short of the majority based on the latest projections. There are a lot of smaller players that will serve as kingmakers. It will be fascinating to see how this turns out as Gordon Brown drove up to Labour Party Headquarters to assess his options. It is going to be tight.
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