Yes a number of people and parties need to be held to account.

And the start must be made with who were principally responsible for converting Britain's economy from one that made things to one that became a service economy; and therefore the most vulnerable, and backed only by intangibles like the emperor's new clothes or the ring of confidence.

What destroyed the British manufacturing industries was the British disease and unions with far too much power.

The only available answer from the Tories and feeble new labor, was to dismantle the manufacturing industries!

Which is the principle reason for the collapsed economy; whereas, Germany, with the good sense to update and keep their's is still powering away!

Instead Britannia's could have and should have been remastered as co-ops, which would have seen the unions sent packing; and a leaner and much more efficient manufacturing base rising like Phoenix from the ashes!

New Labor shot itself in the foot by changing from a Charismatic leader to a power hungry one with all the vision of a blind beggar, and able therefore to send all the wrong messages/mixed metaphors.

The Democrats have no one else to blame and simply sold their souls, by getting into bed with the enemy; and history repeating itself!

The only one smiling are the Scottish independence party, and simply because they put Scotland's perceived national interest and more autonomy, ahead of the usual rank party politics; and or, even more rank self interest!

Which by the way has all but destroyed the Democrats and to a lessor extent, new labor!

It's said you get the Government you deserve, and never more apt than for the dumber than doorknobs Brits, who deserve a Conservative government, with enough seats to govern in their own right!

Good luck with that!
Rhrosty.

Unions again aye
I'm guessing the greedy Pollies and big business had nothing to do with it

Perhaps the voters are tired of labour's fiscal incompetence and tired of paying the price for Gordon Brown's inability to balance the budget.

It is an encouraging result.

Shorten’s policies and approach mirror those of British Labor, so hopefully our electorate will give a similar result, at our next Federal election.

Nigel Farage's UKIP Party is now very powerful but they need to take it up a level and stop the central bankers counterfeiting our currencies.

Gordon Brown, as Blair's chancellor, was a terrible economic manager. He was more concerned with appearances than with what was actually good for the economy. He wasted a lot of money, and underspent on infrastructure. He thoroughly deserved to lose the 2010 election.

But the allegation, presumably aimed at him, that the recession was the result of previous governments overspending, is FALSE. Had the government spent less, the private sector would have probably borrowed more and Britain would've had an even bigger problem to deal with.

Britain is financially sovereign, so it can always borrow as many pounds as it wants to. The recession was due to the government not spending enough to overcome that problem.

One of the biggest ironies of 21st century British politics is that during their time in opposition they stressed the importance of financial sovereignty as they successfully campaigned to keep Britain out of the Euro. Yet once they got into government they acted as if Britain wasn't financially sovereign. A big part of Labour's failing this time was their failure to challenge the government's narrative that austerity was necessary. It probably cost them many seats, particularly in Scotland. But it wasn't what lost them the election. Labour were ahead in all polls except the one that matters.

I heard the SNP landslide attributed to those who wanted independence becoming far more politically active, with many of them joining the party. But I think the main reason was the opposite: with the failure of the referendum, those who didn't want independence (who make up the majority) lost their main reason not to vote SNP.

But the England result is much much harder to explain. The best explanation I've heard is that the people didn't trust Ed Miliband, and the arrogance he displayed with his promises carved in stone put a lot of people off voting for him.