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Now wait for what is to come, 12 billion pounds of welfare cuts, 70 billion pounds of cuts, more foodbanks, more zero hour contracts, more inequality, a lot more failed austerity and a very very brutal time for huge sections of society. The NHS will look very different in 5 years time and the privatisation project will see huge amounts of public money transferred in private hands. England hold your head in shame you have damned us all.

 

• David Cameron is back in No 10, expects 329 seats• Forecast: Tory +22, Labour - 25, SNP +50, LD -49

• Pound in biggest jump in six years on euro
• Cable, Laws, Alexander, Hughes out as Lib Dems capitulate

• SNP take 56/59, Jim Murphy and Douglas Alexander out

• Labour on course for worst result since 1987, Kinnock defeat
• Balls on brink as Miliband says he is “deeply sorry” for result
• Boris Johnson proposes ‘federal offer’ to Scotland
• Ukip surge in northern England but Farage unlikely to win

 

I wouldn't be so quick to feel too disheartened right now.

This is day one of the next 5 years. The Conservative Party are now governing fully on their own and sat on 5 years in power.

By far, their most difficult challenge next time around will be finding someone to blame for the state of the economy when they won't be able to do that. They'll need all the help and more some from their mates in the press and in other media to help them next time, in particualar BBC Tory zealot Laura Kuenssberg.

Even so, there are several things I take with me this morning:

1: Not so much the scale of Labour's defeat but the scale of the Conservative share of the seats won. What does this say about the people of Britain today; their values and their perceptions and particularly since the now ended coalition has been the most pernicious in living memory? This is a stark and uncomfortable feeling, that few people seem to give a damn about anything these days.

2: There will be a lot of pain for a lot of vulnerable people in the next 5 years and today we should perhaps be mourning their loss of social justice and social democracy last night.

3: We can only hope the principles of the SNP will bring the British people around to social democracy again because frankly Labour appear a wholly impotent force right now.