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POST-ELECTION ANALYSIS

May 5th, 2028

Analysts argue about the precise reasons for the unexpected 190 seat majority for Prime Minister Sunak, but most experts put it down to seven key factors:

(1) Changes to the electoral boundaries introduced during the Rees-Mogg Review after the 2024 general election, which created a more representative voting system, despite critics’ objection that it became almost impossible for anyone other than a Conservative to be elected.

(2) The controversial but unexpectedly popular reintroduction of the death penalty by Priti Patel, for the crimes of treason, Islamification, & anti-capitalism.

(3) The decision taken by Border Force Control Chief, Sir Nigel Farage, to permanently close the borders of ‘The People’s Independent Sovereign State of England’, & claim exemption from international so-called 'Human Rights' laws pertaining to asylum seekers & other illegals.

(4) The return of industrial manufacturing in the form of boat building to the North East. This follows the Conservatives’ manifesto promise to reduce homelessness to zero, which they achieved by criminalizing homelessness. The first prison ship is expected to set sail in 2029.

(5) The growing numbers of English asylum seekers at the migrant camp just outside the recently completed border wall between England & a newly independent but economically crippled Scotland. Trade sanctions imposed by the English Government resulted in food & medicine shortages.

(6) A disastrous pre-election interview on England’s leading news channel 'GB News', in which Keir Starmer - recently stripped of his title for his involvement in the retrospectively illegal anti-capitalist Mclibel case - was widely mocked for wearing a St George waistcoat.

During the interview, Keir Starmer was asked seventeen times by Andrew Neil to apologise again for Jimmy Saville & antisemitism.

In the wake of the crushing election defeat, the remaining 36,000 Labour Party members & 24 MPs have asked that this time, he steps down immediately.

(7) The influence GB News & News UK - both now owned by News International - grew rapidly following two key rulings made by Ofcom Chief Paul Dacre in 2026: to ban all social media platforms for failing to tackle the spread of anti-capitalist misinformation, and...

...to strip the BBC of its power to create news & politics shows after implying that Government Ministers of The People’s Independent Sovereign State of England had deliberately misled the English people about the reasons for the 19.6 million unavoidable COVID-related deaths.

The rebranded PBC (Patriotic Broadcasting Company) is confined to making TV & radio shows about English music, English sport, English food, English nature, English & British Empire history, & English comedy – the most popular PBC show is the nightly ‘Have I Got News For You’...

Chaired by Lord Boris Johnson, with team captains Sir Laurence Fox & Sir Toby Young.

The highest rated TV show nationally, broadcast live every Saturday night, is ‘Sir Jim Davidson’s Big Saturday Night Public Execution Special’.

The next general election is scheduled for 2038.

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