Like a lumberjack, clearing a forest the election results are causing heads rolling in the losing parties. It is time for the leaders to ‘hit the road jack’ some to the backbenches others into the cold dark world of the European parliament.
First, to fall on the sword was leader of UKIP Nigel Farage who said if he failed to win the seat of South Thanet he would resign. True to his word, and no sooner than the result was known he resigned as leader of UKIP. He will still be a member of the European Parliament and doing is best to drag the UK out of Europe.
Nick Clegg after watching his party massacred did the only thing left to him and resigned as Lib Dem leader. The former Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition admitted his party had suffered a nightmare' in which just eight of their 57 MPs survived. He fared better himself compare to some by regaining is parliamentary seat while every single cabinet member from Mr Clegg's wing of the coalition was dramatically wiped out in the party's worst defeat in its election history, including Danny Alexander and Vince Cable among others.
Finally, Ed Miliband who had to go mainly because of the size of the defeat if it was closer he may have been able to hang on. He goes back to the backbenches with the tag it should have been the other brother and his geek label with plenty of time to think about where it all went wrong. Now the real in fighting starts, which could further rip the heart of the Labour Party with the unions throwing around block votes.
The unions give us Ed while most of the party wanted his brother David who was seen to be to close in his belief to former Prime Minister Tony Blair who had few fans among the unions.
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