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so lets have a look at these results;
LIB DEMS;
Let's be honest the lib dems are in melt down and looking to be a party of the past
they don't have much choice other than to stick things out.
the call by leading cabinet members, and senior lib dems over the disaster in the election results will damage the lib dems, and clegg under the pressure that's mounting already and going to get worse, the lib dems survived a lot longer that even i tought they would.
but these latest calls for clegg to resign by leading lib dems will destroy the lib dems and they will crumble and with it will be the cobbled together govt
the lib dems having won so many council seats and built so many councils hard work, and then all destroyed in a day.
the lib dems losing all but 2 of there cllrs in sheffield(home of where clegg is an mp) showed on he leaders face, they were upset to have built it up takingit from labour
to lose it all.
theres so much going on between the tories/lib dems just read paddy ashdown a greatr believer in the co olition on his view of cameron now.
big big splinters.
cONSERVATIVES;
Without doubt the tories across the country there vote held up, and they should be pleased they were not hounded out like the lib dems, and must be laughing that the lib dems are taking the flak when they are the major party making the decisions.
the split by cameron getting so involved in the AV vote and the comments he made upsetting lib dems will be hard to heal, and unlikely to.
the prob the conservatives have is all the no go area they have in scotland and wales where they struggle to win seats.
LABOUR;
Labour as usual doesn't learn from it's errors and still turns out every 4 years in the hope that people will elect them even though they are not inviolved in many communities.
they lost out to the S.N.P. in scotland some very marginal, but even the S.N.P. couldn't have expected the gains they got.
and i n wales they did okay but should have done far better.
ed i'm still baffled by why he joined the A.V. campaign, with little benefit to the labour party, still scratch my head on that one.
we did see ministers out and about across the country but is that enough?
more locally
the DDC result
many seats went the way expected of course there were a few blips
shepherdswell seeing p walker take a tory seat rather a surprize, and labour just failling to take the 3rd middle deal seat from tories.
of course reg hansells vote will have taken votes from both labour and tory
but likely to have kept the second labour candidate out.
so why didnt dover d c go labour?
without doubt labour did well to get ed milliband down, and other shadow ministers, but that's not enough, and with 20/30 labour guys out on the street realy looked impressive.
but on the day it took me by surprize that there were no labout tellers on all the doors across the district and none of the usual committee rooms so that didn't bode well.clive meridith getting hammered with his friend from deal coming out of retirement(both living in deal) showed that the tories had worked hard and this time developeent didnt have the affect as there are differing views.
this does of course not help the poor blighters who still don't want the developement this result won't help them.
labour should have won dover but didnt
the work rate wasn';t there.
good luck to all those that stood, and those that did get elected