Challenging tasks for Cameron

David Cameron of the Conservative party has stunned both Britons and Americans by winning May 07 parliamentary polls.
In the election, the Conservatives won 331 seats. This meant the party could form a government independently. Three hundred twenty-six seats are required to form a government in 650-seat House of Commons
(parliament). The Liberal Democrat Party retained only  8 seats out of 57 seats which it won in 2010 while the Labour party of Ed Miliband, did not do well either in the election.
The Labour Party was projected by recent opinion polls to form the next government in the UK. However, it won 232 seats suffering heavy losses at the hands of the SNP in Scotland. Even former Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party's own constituency went to the SNP. It marks the demise of Tony Blair-Gordon Brown legacy in the Labour party.
Another interesting development is losing of  seat by maverick lawmaker George Galloway for the first time to Naseem Shah from Bradford West. One of the longest-serving lawmakers Galloway was the leader of the Respect party who maintained relations with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Romanian autocrat Nicolae Ceausescu.  
It is interesting to note that possibly the Labour Party misread the minds of voters of the Great Britain as was reflected in the comments on May 05 that said previous Labour governments in which Ed Miliband served as a minister 'had ended up bankrupting the country' and another said the Labour's 'economic record was a millstone around his neck.'
David Axelrod, an American, who was chief campaign advisor to President Barack Obama, failed to turn the tide in favour of British Labour party as the Labour strategist.
A commentator in Daily Mirror has this to say about the Labour party: "It needs to reconnect with working class of the United Kingdom." Results of general election reflect that taxing and spending spree of the Labour has ended. Ed Miliband has resigned from leadership of the party. Similarly, Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, also resigned from leadership of the party. This means democracy is fully working in the UK whereas no such example could yet been established in Bangladesh. This is the beauty of democracy in Great Britain. Political leaders in Bangladesh should take lessons from the British polls.
Having won in the election, Cameron said, "We could make Britain a place where a good life is within reach to everyone who is willing to work and do the right thing. We will govern as a part of one nation, one United Kingdom". While governing the UK, he will have to give more attention to grievances of the Scots in particular and further attention to get out of the EU since Britons do not want to remain with it. Further, improvement of the economy, which was his election pledge to Britons, will remain his priority.
Cameron is likely to face a Herculean task indeed to get out of the EU on two counts. First, the US administration of President Obama is not in favour of the UK quitting the EU but majority Britons want to quit.
Winning of majority seats in Scotland by the SNP gives a very bad signal that the party would pursue its agenda to get rid of Great Britain.
It is amazing to see the Bangladesh President sending  messages of congratulations to three women members of the Labour party who were elected members of the House of Commons. It seems to be unusual and unprecedented. The President, titular head of the state and the Prime Minister, head of the government, send messages of congratulations traditionally to their counterparts. This has been the practice in international arena. The President's Secretariat should consult the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before sending any such message abroad.
The writer is a retired diplomat
from Bangladesh.
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