Conservative Party projected to win most seats in Britain
And in Britain, the results of the elections are trickling in. The Conservative Party led by David Cameron is projected to win the most seats in the election but the country might be leaning towards a political impasse according to the first exit poll when voting ended. The Conservatives are estimated to win three hundred and five seats in the six hundred and fifty seat chamber; twenty short of a majority. Gordon Brown’s Labour Party is projected to win two hundred and fifty-five seats while the Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg are expected to win sixty-one seats. The talk among political analysts on BBC this evening, however, was the effects swing votes would have on the outcome of the elections. The elections are of interest to Belize because of the longstanding relations with Britain and because the Barrow administration has been more than aggressive against the deputy chair of the conservative party, Lord Michael Ashcroft.
Political Analyst #1
“Remember that the swing from Labor to the Conservative of Margaret Thatcher was elected was five point three percent. That is more than double that figure in one seat but it is in a seat where you wouldn’t expect the Conservatives to put any resource, any time, any effort really, they hadn’t hoped of winning it. And if, if we keep two results was repeated on anything like that scale our exit poll is wildly underestimating what they could do.”
Political Analyst #2
“It’s more than the swing that Tony Blair got in ‘97.”
Political Analyst #1
“That’s right.”
Political Analyst #2
“It was around the ten percent.”
Political Analyst #1
“We always knew that David Cameron to win this election would require a huge swing in historical terms. Not as big as Tony Blair’s which from memory is a little over ten percent but this would be more than that, really big.”
Political Analyst #3
“This is the largest swing we’ve seen since the war. That swing was repeated across the country of eleven percent. It would be the largest swing we’ve seen since 1945.”
In Londonderry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland, ballot counting was this evening officially suspended following a security alert shortly after five o‘clock. An estimated five hundred people have been evacuated from the Templore Sports Complex after a hijacked car was abandoned in the parking area. The gymnasium where the count was taking place was closed off and bomb experts had to be called to the scene. News Five will carry more on the elections in this tonight’s programming.
