re: #29 Pawn of the Oppressor

Well, there’s “fame” and there’s “infamy” and some people just don’t know the difference.

People don’t know the difference in a lot of things these days. I blame that whole “don’t judge” meme carried to an extreme.

You might not judge a book by its cover, but you certainly can critique the contents.

For those following Britain’s election…

At least Britain’s election wasn’t an oversweeping success for the Tories, even though I’m disappointed that the Scots fell for the SNP line and Sturgeon previously said her win wouldn’t mean independence. Many of the votes won by the SNP more than likely were votes that would have gone to Labour.

At least Cameron doesn’t have a mandate, it’s a narrow majority. The huge individual loss was for Ed Balls of Labour, who was called the “shadow chancellor”, to a female Tory by 422 votes. The biggest losers by far were the Liberal Democrats. UKIP won a seat, by a former Tory turned UKIP, but it appears Nigel Farage may have lost, and promised he would resign as party leader before the election if he lost. Expect a few party resignations today.

This neatly sums up the situation for Scots now:

SNP has 95% of seats on 50% of vote. Unionists in Scotland now seriously underrepresented: three MPs now speak for half a nation.

— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) May 8, 2015