Left-wing Londoners riot, deface landmarks over massive conservative election victory
On Thursday, an unexpectedly significant majority of British voters turned out to deliver Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives a landslide victory. The British electorate shocked the world by handing the Tories an outright majority in parliament, but the results in England and Wales stood in stark contrast to those in Scotland. There, the formerly dominant Labour Party was virtually wiped out in favor of the much more radically progressive Scottish Nationalist Party. Whereas the general election results in England were seen as a mandate for prudence and restraint, SNP framed their election results as a mandate for progressivism and the end to the watered-down British version of economic austerity. The stage is set for conflict in the U.K.
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Over the weekend, a deluge of student-age demonstrators armed with freshly printed signs promoting the “Socialist Worker” demanded that the Tories surrender the power their fellow countrymen and women granted them. It wasn’t long before those demonstrations in front of 10 Downing Street grew violent.
“Hundreds of anti-government protesters, some holding placards reading ‘I pledge to resist’ and ‘Stop the cuts’, took part in the rally on Saturday, which began outside Conservative Party headquarters,” a BBC report read.
“Scotland Yard said four officers and a member of police staff were injured,”Sky News reported. “One officer was treated for a suspected dislocated shoulder, while the member of staff suffered a cut lip after being struck by an object.”
The violent clashes culminated in the defacing of London’s famous monument in honor of “the women of World War II.” Just days after Britain celebrated the 70th anniversary of its victory over the Nazis who forced Londoners to endure the horrors of the Blitz, the grandchildren of those tenacious Englishmen and women indulged in a fit of infantile socialist pique and vandalized the monument to their struggle.
Given how ungracious leftists are when they win, it's no surprise that they are awful losers. One can easily see something similar happening in the US if, by some trick of magic, Democrats contrive to lose the 2016 presidential election.
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