At first I thought this had to be a mistake but as the night unfolded true the Conservatives ended up getting 332 seats.
How did they do this?
Now this was the big question because all the polling companies predicted a hung parliament. Labour won most of the seats in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.
However the conservatives managed to win six seats from Labour and over twenty five seats from the Liberal Democrats.
The Tories targeted their coalition partners knowing that their seats would be vulnerable and they were right and Liberal Democrats now only have eight MPs and I was not too surprised by this as I expected them to be punished for going to partnership with the Tories.
So this was a thoroughly unexpected result and now the Tories now have the mandate to carry on making cuts to public services.
It's not the result I expected or wanted but Labour now have this result behind them and work on winning those middle class votes in 2020.
