England wants the Tories. It seems.

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map here

England is nearly all blue therefore most of the English want a Conservative Govt.

Isn't it about time Scotland and Wales were left to govern and provide for themselves?

Problem solved

Yep, Scotland's looking like the place to be...

I'm English, I live in England and I absolutely do not want the sodding Conservatives.

The (imo) gready, selfish, 'I'm alright so sod you lot' Conservatives did NOT win, even though the english map looks quite blue more people did NOT vote for them by a long shot.

I am english and I do NOT want conservatives. Despite being in a Tory stronghold I did vote for labour, albeit in vain as ever.

It seems some voters attempted to get change by going for LibDems, we had a small swing in this area, but it's never going to be any different here.

not ANOTHER thread going on about "handouts" and all Scots wanting independence etc.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/politics/960844-Why-not-liberate-Scotland-and-then-run-with-a-conservative

the other thread, where people have gone on until blue in face (not politics) about how we do actually pay taxes and don't just "accept handouts".

If you look at the map of england alone, you can see significantly different patterns in the home counties from the edges of the country, which are not so blue.

there do exist arguments for scottish and welsh independence - "they voted differently from us" isnt one of them.

anyone know of a map somewhere that shows what the country would look like with Proportional representation as the lib dems would like.

I have no idea what difference it would make with this particular result.

In the BBC table of results, they tell you how many votes each party got, so you can get a rough idea.

Yourcallisimportant. Do they have Scottish or Welsh passports or British ones? I thought Scotland 'was' it's own country until we conquered it 300 years ago.

Gillybean I thought 'Sod the Lot' was a UKIP slogan.

Scotland and Wales are not separate countries they are separate Kingdoms. Big difference. I for one would be happy to cut them loose. If they were separate, they would both be doing about as well as the Irish Republic is currently - at best.

Have you noticed the north east? Part of England last time I looked.
No, thought not...

Yes Belledans......
I absolutely agree I'm not leaving the country in the hands of that lot - look what devastation Thatcher caused and the fear of that ever happening again did it for the Scots who have more sense. The reason the England looks blue is because the Tories have territories spreading over 1,000's of acres.

There are millions of people across the country did not vote Tory.64% of those who voted in fact but because of our ridiculous system the map turns blue. Tht is why we need electoral reform.

this makes sense

i can't believe these same views about Scots disliking the English and all wanting independence are in a newspaper as well

As we keep saying - by that reasoning they'll have to say 'bye 'bye to London too.

Can't see that happening, can you?

Bonkers. Silly, silly people.

Utterly deranged. Why not just say that they' like to put all non-Conservative voters in a ship and set them off towards, errr, somewhere else. Then there'd be none of this pesky no majority nonsense.

I'm pleased to say that if you look at the map of the uk, and look down south as if you were heading to the Isle of Wight, there are two, yes two, little red dots. I'm in one of them!!!!!

Picking up an idea from the "London -why?" thread, losing Scotland just because it didn't vote blue in these deficit times is a bit daft.

We need to think big. Let's sell Cornwall. It's pretty, yes, but makes sod all money, and is expensive to keep up. Just keeping it as a potential blue-vote farm is ... pricey. We could move all the blue-voters in Cornwall to ... Peckham - that'll even out the vote in London. Yes, yes, lots of people-who-matter have second homes there, and holidaying there is lovely (heck, we're going this year,) but ... come on, you know it makes sense.

Not Cornwall. Wales. And you could throw in Liverpool on a 2 for 1 deal.

I live in Wales and I certainly dont want bloody Plaid Cymru governing me thank you very much.
I voted consevative