Abstract
‘[The pollsters] subscribed to an inherent left-of-centre bias that infects much of the public discourse in this country and embraces a set of values that are simply not shared by most people. Whether they are sitting in the news rooms of the BBC or the so-called liberal media, they simply fail to understand that this quiet “small c” conservatism constitutes a majority in Britain and always has, even if it manifests itself in different ways …’
The Daily Telegraph
‘Mr Cameron has won a decisive, but very narrow, victory. He will need far greater wisdom, consistency and vision than he displayed in his first term if, in what will be his second and final term, he is to bring the country back together.’
The Guardian
‘We heartily congratulate David Cameron on a stonking win … As for Labour, we have three words: Foot, Kinnock and now Miliband. Maybe, after this third apocalyptic defeat, they finally get that most English voters are quietly conservative. There is no vast leftie mass, whatever the unions who installed Ed Miliband believe.’
The Sun
‘Unmoved by Labour's mean-spirited politics of envy or the shroud-waving of the BBC, [Mail readers] voted for what they knew to be true: there is no easy escape from our quagmire of debts, but the best hope for our children and grandchildren is to trust in enterprise and hard work to reduce them. As for Ed Miliband, this paper sheds no tears for him. He has been a malign influence, betraying his party's traditional supporters by preaching an alien creed learned from a Marxist textbook.’
Daily Mail
‘David Cameron preening himself outside Downing Street – after three vanquished rivals fell on their swords – rammed home the new political order in Britain. The Conservatives’ unexpected outright majority has created a Tory steamroller that threatens millions of decent Britons.’
Daily Mirror