Democracy won ... while the main parties lost out

SO who won, and who lost?

Well, almost all the political parties lost. It’s almost as though the electorate collectively said: none of the above.

Whilst the Conservatives were mainly defeated on their badly presented and dire manifesto, Theresa May’s arrogance sealed her fate. She has lost all credibility and must surely go.

Then Labour, too, failed to convince the country, despite the post-result smirks from that serial briber of the electorate, and terrorists’ friend, Jeremy Corbyn.

Indeed, the two big parties only retain the separate referendum mandate for leaving the EU.

The Lib Dems paltry result of 12 seats shows there is no enthusiasm for their speciality of regarding 17.4 million of us Leave voters as not knowing what we voted for and thick with it.

UKIP’s performance was generally dreadful - down from 3.9 million votes to a mere 600,000, or under 2% - with some exceptions such as the Barnsley seats with a creditable 8%. The SNP’s ambitions for an independent Scotland took a severe knock from the loss of nearly two fifths of their MPs. So who won? The DUP, arguably. They will have more influence than they expected. Absurdly there is already a petition against the DUP, even though we have all just voted - which is what actually counts.

And with a higher turnout, the electorate also won - democracy still matters to people.

Leaving the EU is having its effects: no longer being ruled from Brussels in the future means who we select to be the UK government becomes increasingly important.