I am writing this in the last Liberal Democrat enclave in West Wales, Ceredigion. It has taken a while for the elusive Shark Fisherman of Wales to get his thoughts together after the General Election result of last week. "Well, Coo, Err, Lord, Lummy, Love a Duck" is all that this simpleton can say. I didn't see that coming. Others, must have thought that Milliband was not up to the job. Cameron was the sitting incumbent and perhaps his or his strategist's general decision to limit his TV appearances paid off.
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In fact, the more the gormless Milliband appeared on the telly, the worse he got. Unfortunately because it ended up as a personality contest, the Labour Party, founded in 1900 suffered and the Liberal Democrats, formerly the Liberals suffered even more. Lloyd George must have been shifting a little uncomfortably in his 'bedd'* when the final results came in and would have liked to have given the pompous Paddy Ashdown his own hat to eat on the night. For those few of us who didn't vote Conservative, it appears that the ghost of Margaret Thatcher has now been laid to rest. Now it is 'Ding Dong, the Wizard is alive'. This new, bright, shiny, blue, straight out of a cornflakes packet, one nation Conservatism will have to work very hard if it is to make an indent into entrenched left wing minds and perhaps the left wing is now a thing of the past with the Labour Party appearing to hurtle headlong into another leadership contest. The UK's Barack Obama, Chuka Ummuna, to the right of centre, privately educated and someone who has just been waiting his chance and biding his time. Now this electorate, this brave new electorate who have 'got on their bikes' and 'pulled themselves up by their bootstraps' and told eachother 'You don't get anything for nothing' are now heading down to the White Cliffs of Dover with their telescopes, periscopes and binoculars because despite the lack of discussion of foreign policy, this election was about Putin and ISIL and what our Public Schoolboy is going to do about them.
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*Bedd/Grave
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