Not quite; The recent UK elections where the Scottish National Party (that’s Nicola Sturgeon doing the caber toss) has shaken the established Westminster parliament by taking 56 of 59 Scottish seats.Falling out of Big Ben’s tower on the left is right-wing populist Nigel Farage (in trademark brown overcoat), who resigned his position as leader of UKIP after losing his own seat in South Thanet (but within a couple days once again its leader);to the far right you see Liberal-Democrats leader Nick Clegg, formerly the deputy-PM as the Lib-Dems were the junior partners in the former coalition but, although he kept his seat in Sheffield, resigned because of devastating losses his party suffered in the election (from 50something to just 8 seats);holding onto the clock hand is Ed Milliband of the Labour party, who also resigned amid major losses; bottom right is Ed Balls, also of Labour and a [former]heavy-weight within Labour and former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer who also lost his parliamentary seat;and finally, sitting pretty atop Big Ben remains the victorious PM David Cameron of the Tories (Conservatives) with a slim 51% majority with no need for a coalition partner.
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Not quite; The recent UK elections where the Scottish National Party (that’s Nicola Sturgeon doing the caber toss) has shaken the established Westminster parliament by taking 56 of 59 Scottish seats.Falling out of Big Ben’s tower on the left is right-wing populist Nigel Farage (in trademark brown overcoat), who resigned his position as leader of UKIP after losing his own seat in South Thanet (but within a couple days once again its leader);to the far right you see Liberal-Democrats leader Nick Clegg, formerly the deputy-PM as the Lib-Dems were the junior partners in the former coalition but, although he kept his seat in Sheffield, resigned because of devastating losses his party suffered in the election (from 50something to just 8 seats);holding onto the clock hand is Ed Milliband of the Labour party, who also resigned amid major losses; bottom right is Ed Balls, also of Labour and a [former]heavy-weight within Labour and former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer who also lost his parliamentary seat;and finally, sitting pretty atop Big Ben remains the victorious PM David Cameron of the Tories (Conservatives) with a slim 51% majority with no need for a coalition partner.