Eurosphere agenda: Conservatives win in UK, Not to sad for Labor whom once led by a war mongerer, Blair…

According to early results the Conservatives won a surprising absolute majority in the UK general election on Thursday. Meanwhile the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the current government, suffered major losses. Labour didn’t stand a chance with its left-wing agenda, some commentators argue. Others complain that the country has lost its position in the world regardless of who is in government

… UK’s Labour Party, has just resigned after failing to become Prime Minister in yesterday’s General Election. That’s par for the course, but elements of his speech weren’t. As well as name checking colleagues and thanking party workers, he made time to talk about selfies and a Twitter fandom dedicated to him: Thank you for the selfies. Thank you for the support. And thank you for the most unlikely cult of the 21st century – Milifandom. #Milifandom was coined by a 17-year-old student and first

Elections Blog on 8 May 2015 at 00:23AM Taha and Stefano previously looked at the distribution of Wikipedia pages by candidate. These pages are much more patchy than Twitter handles: only in the Conservative and Labour cases do more than 40% of candidates have an account, whilst most other parties have far less (though we should note that we are relying on the… Read More » […

David Cameron is heading back to Downing Street as prime minister after the Conservatives win a majority – but Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage all resign as leaders of his rival parties.

… to know about the Conservatives’ big win Thanks to the SNP’s near-sweep of Scotland in the general election Thursday night, the northern part of the UK political map is now shaded nearly solid yellow, the party’s color. That led Twitter user Alex McLaughlan to make a surprising discovery. That predicted UK map post-election. Or #thesimpsons? #GE2015 pic.twitter.com/gVldpWmY7j — Alex McLaughlan (@alexmclaughlan) May 7, 2015 Read more… More about Uk, The Simpsons, Us World, Politics, and Uk El

…ence a new government today, Thursday. Prime Minister David Cameron has forfeited almost certain re-election with his misguided election campaign, some commentators believe. Others blame the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party for the Conservatives’ impending loss of votes

Elections Blog on 3 May 2015 at 11:17AM Some have called the forthcoming UK general election a Social Media Election. It might be a bit of exaggeration, but there is no doubt that both candidates and voters are very active on social media these days and take them seriously. The Wikipedia-Shapps story of last week is a good example showing how important online presence… Read More » […