The morning after

Waking up this morning the day after the the election of the Conservatives,  the leaders of the Labour, Liberal and the United Kingdom Independence Party's who, on defeat, have fallen on their swords in an unprecedented display of public Hari Kari.

As I wake to another day, these three men, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have a massive change to cope with, as the frenetic pace of the job they had become used to is pulled away within 24 hours !!

How do they cope having spent so many years pulling themselves up to the pinnacle of your respective party to find, at the stroke of a pen you are out of a job but worse than that there is no other job which could compare to the one you leave. It's sad to see such able people now lost to the business of politics

Has the psyche of the public changed ?
Can "issues", left of centre, which are understood in Scotland and reflect the huge popularity of the SNP, will these "issues" find a meaningful voice if the society have little truck with the weak and needy. My conversation in the pubs and amongst the workers within the offices reveal a disconnect with caring about others who are not as successful.
The yardstick is success and without that talisman "people"  are not valued.

Will we ever have a Labour Government again or will the appetite of the English for only fiscal solutions, an appetite to see the society in economic terms rather than as a common humanity issue, will we continue with "Tory values" as the solution to our form of government.
Will the "Boundary Changes" which the last Government wanted to bring in but which  the Liberals blocked, will these changes establish a new electoral composition across the country, a change in the way of the way voting blocks are formed so that Tory hegemony is always maintained, mixing Labour wards with stronger Conservative wards thereby cancelling out the effective Labour Opposition in most of the country for ever.
Any chance of "proportional representation" which would establish a much fairer, much more egalitarian and representational Parliament has little chance now. Why should it when the Establishment have it in their hands to control us for ever !!
People in this country vote as they are told to vote and the 'organs' through which the telling is most effectively done are :-
Sky TV, The Sun, The Times The Sunday Times The Mail,The Express, and The Daily Telegraph. Quite an influential block of news dissemination which can win the hearts and minds of the ordinary man in the street and, over time convince him Back is White.
This is the new or existing landscape and we have to live with it.

One of the main issues, as we prognosticate the future of the Labour Party has been the sensible reflection, by people who should have been the bedrock of the old party, on the cause of Labours failure and brought to bare by the Conservatives as Labour incompetence :-

1. When the economy was robust in the Blair years they should have replenished the housing stock which Mrs Thatcher had sold off in her sale of existing houses to the people who rented them.

2. They, should have considered the implication of allowing so many people into the country, from such divergent backgrounds all over the globe, believing that integration would proceed naturally.

3. In conjunction with immigration was the belief that "multiculturalism would be accepted by the population as a whole. They didn't engage in any sort of dialog before inflicting the drastic social mix which has made some cities unrecognisable pre 1950.

4. There should have been a greater understanding of the countries social dynamic by refusing to leave the business of politics solely to the "student of politics", as if politics was a "business studies" project. The connection with the common man was lost and no amount of ideological prep work can place an Oxbridge educated man or women in the working class districts of any major city. This disconnect, established over the Blair years and continued with Miliband, produced a dichotomy  which made for great misunderstand, one for the other.