The Elections Outcome Shows Britain is Conservative

• 05.09.2015, 01:03
•  Europe,  "Insight" Analytical Center ,  World

On May 7 General Elections in the United Kindgom were held. The outcome of the elections was the victory of Conservative party and its leader PM David Cameron. In reality these elections showed how deep conservative Britain is. The people in the UK voted for Cameron stressing the fact that the issue of Brexit (British exit from the EU) is important for them and they want to hold a referendum on it.

Brits are radical to some extend and even nationalistic. The major opposition leader Ed Miliband might have known that the campaign and vision that he proposes does not comply with the peculiarities of the society. His vision was too leftist, too mild. Even if this society does not like David Cameron, they do not mind holding a referendum with all the rules of democracy, in order to be sure that everyone supports a certain decision. This time the issue was about the Brexit and the annoyed brits, who are sick and tired of all the mess going on in the Union -  Brussels trying to control them, Europe drowned in the migrant flows (including the UK), the EU not ready for a change of migrants general policy, the economic crisis and all the mess connected to it. These elections and Cameron's promises to get rid of all these headaches were just in time for the society. But will Cameron actually take that step and put a referendum in 2017?

At the same time, the simultaneous resignation of the leaders of parties running for the parliamentary elections, is a demonstration of features that a real democratic society should have. Ed Miliband- Labour leader, Nick Clegg- Liberal-Democrats leader, Nogel Farage- UKIP leader, all of them resigned hours after the official results were announced: they did not form a majority, which means that the leaders of those parties failed. This is not something very common even in other western democracies. Many people saw Miliband as the new PM and Farage has always been an embodiment of British eurosceptisism.

There is also the Scottish issue, where, to briefly sum-up, the population was against Cameron as they were against the UK quitting the EU. There were even talks that they were thinking of holding another referendum if Britain decided to leave the EU. But at the moment it seems like they are satisfied with the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) taking the 3^rd place according to the election results. In the new Parliament the winning Conservatives will have 331 seats,  Labour Party - 232, SNP - 56 seats, Liberal-Democrats  - 8 seats and UKIP will be holding only 1 seat. The required number of seats to hold a majority is 323.  Here it should be mentioned that it is the first time in about 20 years that Conservatives won without forming a coalition.