Sorry if any of this is incomprehensible bollocks but I've been up all night and I am posting from my phone which I struggle with at the best of times.
Yes I am fucked of that the Tories have won but I am trying to be philosophical about it. I was quite excited in the run up to this election as it looked like all three of the main parties were losing it. I did not want Labour to win the election, I wanted the conservatives to lose. I maintain that there is a distinction between the two.
OK so it hasn't quite worked out like that as it looks like the scum have just about scrapped a win. But I have got a lot of joy from waving the lib dem colapse, I epically liked watching Cable go. Yes we face more years of austerity but that was true whatever the result of the election. There was not a choice between austerity or no austerity, just between two different plans for austerity, and while the Tories may be stronger the government is weaker. A weak tory government may even be preferable to a strong Labour one. (cluching at straws?)
I conservative win may look like a vote for austerity, and it is true that one reason I would have preferred a Labour win is that, whatever the reality in practice, on some level it could be seen as a rejection of the austerity project. But the tory vote was around 35% of a 65% turnout, I am too tired to do the math, that's what, 20 odd percent of the electorate? Hardly a ringing endorsement. Once again the single largest vote was for no one. The real story of this election is the continued collapse of the mainstream.
