There is no other way of cutting it – this election result is an absolute disaster for Britain. We are set for five years of utter misery, with further cuts to public services and welfare, further privatisation of the NHS and our education system and further attacks on migrants, the unemployed and the disabled. The Tories have won and we are stuck with them.
While it’s important now to get angry, to get agitated and get organised, it’s equally important to look at the future with a degree of optimism to stave off defeatism. There are, through it all, small glimmers of hope. Our Co-Editor Chris Jarvis will, over the next few days, be looking at some of them.
by Chris Jarvis
Beneath all the headlines of Tory victory and everything that is now to come, an interesting shift has taken place on our political landscape. Lying underneath the surface is a change in the kind of people presented in the public eye as political leaders.
Thursday’s election produced a parliament that has more women than ever before. 191 of the 650 Members of Parliament elected last week are women and 100 of the 232 Labour MPs, just shy of half are women. The number of women in the parliamentary party of the SNP and the Conservatives also increased. While this is far, far from where we should be in terms of women’s representation – in total, just 29% of MPs are now women – the steps towards parity should be cautiously welcomed.
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