First thoughts about the Brexmas Election: How about the polling firm Survation! This amazing firm was the only company that had the results exactly right in the last UK general election, 2017, a very upsetting and unpredictable affair indeed. Similarly they were one of only two companies to get the equally unpredictable 2015 election right. On both occasions, the numbers were almost spot on and the only company to really come close to the right results.
This time: Survation said: Tories 45, Lab 34, LibDem 9, SNP 4, Brexit 3. The real result: Tories 43, Lab 33, LibDem 11, SNP 4, Brexit 2! It gave me great comfort just before the Polls closed to see their prediction. I did not misplace my trust. If anyone needs to do any sort of market research for anything, they should hire this remarkable soothsayer of a Pollster.
Darkening an otherwise brilliant and famous victory not only for Johnson and Tories but for the Nation and their democracy was the relentless gracelessness of their opponents in the media and Westminster. From the Leaders who lost right down to the most obscure commentator or flack, there was a resolute systematic (to the point where it was almost like they were programmed Borg style to groupthink on this) refusal to congratulate their vanquishers and an attempt to portray the whole thing as a tragedy for the People - er, the same people who wrought all this grief by voting against them. Really, these ARE English people, right? Aren't they supposed to be polite almost to an excruciating fault? Instead, they were rude and full of sour grapes. Certainly few, except for a few like the female analyst for SKY TV, seemed predisposed to give the PM the credit he overwhelmingly earned and deserved for pulling off the triple miracle of uniting his Party, getting a new deal with Europe and winning a majority election victory to get Brexit done. It is sad and pathetic. Some one said that the Labour Party will have to undergo analysis. Indeed. And, in light of their bizarre behaviour before during and at the end of this campaign, it should be lying on a couch with a psychiatrist.
Another loathsome theme of last night - there will be more calls for more referenda not only in Scotland where the hideous Sturgeon and her mob have won a landslide and Northern Ireland where the Nationalists outnumber the Unionists by one seat. If I had been on a panel for this, I would have said...something that cannot be printed. Suffice it to say that, if those cruds in the Sinful Bane and the Scottish Gits Party want another referendum from Boris, they can wait until Boris learns to fly without a zipwire.
And that reminds me. Is it my imagination or is it that every time we win a stonking majority, we are told, one, we do not have a real mandate, two, we need to compromise or three, all those new voters will want us to stop being conservative. Again, fat chance. I trust Boris. Every time they've said he was going to foul up, he proved them spectacularly wrong. They will be wrong about his path in the next four years and I will follow him proudly wherever he takes us.
Finally, there was the strange spectacle of the dance around. What do I mean by that? I watched 7 and a half hours of coverage by LBC and SKY of the election and not once did I hear anyone on those programs mention Corbyn and the :Labour Party's anti-Semitism problem. They even dared to speculate about whether Johnson might be racist based on his old writings instead. My favourite disfunctional moment was when they wondered out loud why people could not "In good conscience" vote for Corbyn and then did not bother to actually mention the obvious, voluminously documented reasons why - anti-semitism, coddling terrorists, cozying up to the enemies of the UK, proposing a Marxist takeover of the economy and. above all. not really liking his own country.
Most awkward moment of the night and frankly creepy was watching Sturgeon doing an Elaine from Seinfeld victory dance when she heard that the hapless Jo Swinson lost her seat. Ooooh, what a horrific person!
PS: I am especially thrilled that the Jews of Britain (for now) may rest easy that the disgraceful and dangerous Corbyn and his ilk will not darken the doors of power in this country. God bless you and keep you...far away from them!
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