VDare: John Derbyshire Sees Some Faint Shafts Of Light In The U.K. Elections - "Nor is the news from UKIP altogether bad. In spite of losing one of their two seats, and the failure of UKIP leader Nigel Farage to win a seat, the party’s popular vote surged from less than a million in 2010 to almost four million this week."

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John Derbyshire Sees Some Faint Shafts Of Light In The U.K. Elections

By John Derbyshire on May 9, 2015, 12:50 am

For a traditionalist-conservative observer, there was at first glance not much to like in this week’s U.K. election result.

• David Cameron’s Tory Party, the British manifestation of Conservatism, Inc.—globalist, multiculturalist, guilty-rich, donorist—won a clear majority of seats in the 650-seat House of Commons.
• The far-Left statist, globalist, Cultural Marxist SNP (Scottish National [sic] Party) scored a mighty triumph in Scotland. [Election results: Mapping Scotland’s dramatic change, BBC, May 8, 2015 ] The SNP held six of Scotland’s 59 seats before the election; they now hold 56.
• The only party with elected MPs arguing for national sovereignty and patriotic immigration reform, Nigel Farage’sUKIP (K. Independence Party), lost parliamentary representation, going from two seats to one. Farage himself failed to win a seat.

(Note on reading the election results: Some of the election-results websites compare the numbers for each party as elected this week with the numbers as elected at the last general election in 2010: Tories, for example, show as 330 today versus 306 then. My numbers are for elected-this-week vs. seating at the last parliamentary session in March. For Tories that’s 330 vs. 302 because seats changed hands in special elections 2010-2015.)

On closer examination, some faint shafts of light break through.

Brightest of those shafts: the Tories’ clear majority.

It is true that there is nothing much conservative about Britain’s Conservative Party, nothing in the way of ancient liberties, traditional social arrangements, governmental restraint, or demographic stability that the party leadership is keen to conserve. Cameron forced same-sex marriage through parliament in 2013, for example; and he is one of the founding signatories of the crazy-Left street-fighting anarchist group United Against Fascism.

This is, however the Tories’ first parliamentary majority for 18 years. They have been governing since 2010 in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, a genteel-“progressive” party holding 56 seats before this week’s election. ...

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