Yup, increased Tory majority, collapse of UKIP and LibDem votes, respectable showing for Labour. Sounds like the SNP may take a bit of a hit.
My long-term hope is that post-hoc number-crunching will demonstrate that the number of Labour seats would have seriously increased under a proportional representation voting system; and that this will spur them into adopting it as a future manifesto pledge and the smaller parties (who stand to gain most from PR) will form a temporary progressive alliance with Labour to see it through.
If something like that doesn't happen, then constituency boundary changes planned for the coming parliamentary term will ensure that England, at least, will be governed by the Tories for decades to come.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
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