Andy Baio commenting on a Financial-Times piece about a series of elections resulting with the incumbent party loosing their mandate:

inflation was a painful global phenomenon, and every ruling party was punished for it regardless of political leanings

Overly simplistic explanation for the phenomenon. It assumes, for instance, that 14 years of Tory rule preceding this year’s election didn’t happen in the UK; and its constant lying, series of scandals, cronyism, corruption, law-breaking, and gutting of public-service funding.