Tories headed for majority in UK elections

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Election results: Exit poll puts Tories close to majority

BBC,

8 May, 2015

The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the Commons but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll.

The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted.

It suggests the Lib Dems will get 10 MPs, the SNP 58, Plaid Cymru four, UKIP two and the Greens two.

The exit poll was conducted by NOP/MORI for the BBC, ITV and Sky.

Labour and the Lib Dems have both said they do not believe the exit poll result.

The first general election results have come in, with the last of the 650 expected on Friday afternoon.

UK EXIT POLL - UK TAKING FIRST STEP TOWARDS BREAK UP?

The British election has taken a surprising turn with an exit poll that shows the Conservatives short of a majority but well ahead of Labour. As predicted the Liberal Democrats have collapsed whilst the Scottish Nationalists look to be in line for a clean sweep in Scotland where Labour is facing wipe out.

IF this exist poll is correct (and it is only an exit poll) then England and Scotland are voting in diametrically opposite directions, with the Conservatives winning convincingly in England, where they seem to have successfully repositioned themselves as the party that looks after England, and Labour - the one party that has historically been strong in both parts of the union - losing to the more nationalistic parties (the Conservatives and the Scottish Nationalists) in both Kingdoms.

I am very sorry to say this, but if this does indeed prove to be the case then I cannot see the United Kingdom holding together for much longer. I cannot see how an increasingly Conservative England can remain united to a left wing Scottish Nationalist dominated Scotland.

Break up in some form is coming, only faster than even I had feared.

---Alexander Mercouris

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