Quite an Enthralling election I have to admit, not as exciting as last months UK one though, when the Tories smashed the labour party into oblivion, im still celebrating now. 
Sorry to p!ss in yer chips Des, but the Tories did not, by any rational analysis smash the Labour Party into oblivion. Perhaps if any party did the real damage to Labour it was the SNP in overall UK result terms. South of the border it was UKIP that largely brought about Labour's defeat. If you check out the seats that Labour should have won or retained - generally outside of London - you will see that the UKIP (and occasionally the Greens) vote prevented a Labour victory, largely because their vote was made up of disaffected Labour voters, either protest voting or a genuine feeling that Labour had deserted them. Nothing to do with Labour losing the aspirational centre, as the Blairites argue, but everything to do with the Labour Leadership ignoring, or rather not listening to its traditional core working class supporters.
By way of a further explanation of what actually happened in voting terms the much expected mass desertion of Tory voters in a move to UKIP did not happen. And certainly did not happen in the same numbers as it did with Labour. Analysis from Universities of Nottingham/Manchester/Sterling estimate that the move to vote UKIP was made by well over double the number of previous Labour voters as Tory voters. Tory voters have traditionally been more disciplined in their voting, and rarely, and only on a tactical basis do they stop voting Tory. Which is almost unique for any centre right party in the world, and the reason why the Tories have been so successful over the years. The centre right vote remaining concentrated on one single party. Labour voters on the other hand will often not 'come out' and in some cases will vote for supposed alternatives, like UKIP or the SNP, but perhaps most starkly the Labour traitors of the SDP and then the Alliance, which was responsible for splitting the anti Tory vote in 1983 and 87 General Election and keeping Thatcher in power.
We could also factor in the First Past the Post electoral system, which has always favoured the Tories - for a number of reasons - but that's probably a discussion for another day.
