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The British people are fed up of politicians not keeping their word. I said I would resign if I lost the election in South Thanet, and I’m going to keep my word... I’ve never broken my word,”

Nigel Farage May 2015.

Until today, that is.

Just 36  hours after telling the world that he had resigned the former leader of Ukip Nigel Farage, has just announced he’s unresigned.

Defying both the polls and the pundits, Prime Minister David Cameron has scored an incredible victory in securing a Conservative majority in the House of Commons.

All the numbers are not in at the time of writing, but nevertheless this has been a quite remarkable victory for the Tory party.

Cameron has all but eviscerated most his party political rivals and wiped out a generation of leading political figures in one fell swoop, including his EU detractor Nigel Farage.

British democracy has once again made history.

A record number of BME politicians have been elected to Parliament, with eight new BME MPs coming from Labour, seven from the Conservatives, and one SNP.  Ten new BME female MPs have been returned to the House of Commons.

One new MP who has made history is Alan Mak, who becomes the first MP of Chinese origin to sit in the House of Commons, having won Havant.

Over the centuries Britain has embraced, and made itself the home of many races, cultures and religions. Every people have brought their distinct cultures to make it economically and culturally richer. Some communities arrived here with a lower level playing field compared to others and as such there were inevitable hiccups with social inclusion in the beginning. Nowadays Britain has become a successful pluralist country.

Prem Goyal, All People’s Party Candidate, Camberwell and Peckham

Prem is a City entrepreneur, political activist and community organiser. Much of his time is spent promoting community cohesion, supporting third sector organisations and serving the community through civic roles, being a Magistrate, former college Governor, charity Trustee and active Patron to a number of charities and community organisations in Southwark.

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Khalid Mahmood, Labour Party candidate for Birmingham Perry Bar

Khalid came to the UK as a child from Pakistan. After attending school in Small Heath he went on to work at South Birmingham College. He soon became involved in the local Labour Party, and inspired by Roy Hattersley MP, and Sir Dick Knowles, former leader of Birmingham City Council, he was elected as one of Birmingham’s youngest councillors in 1990.

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan was born to change his world. And in doing so he would change our world too. The son of a bus driver he studied hard to become one of those firebrand lawyers who readily took on the establishment when he saw a great injustice. He was one of the lawyers for the Stephen Lawrence campaign and has remained a friend of the family ever since.

The British Chinese Project deserve a lot of praise for organising a General Election Chinese Question Time last night.

It was held at the very impressive China Exchange, a new purpose-built venue in the heart of Chinatown, funded by Sir David Tang.  So it was appropriate that Sir David gave a speech opening the event, and even more appropriate were his critical remarks about the outdated first-past-the-post electoral system.

The General Election can’t come soon enough for some as we are subject to the longest political campaign in history.  Of course, for political geeks (and I confess I’m one) this election represents a critically important moment for the nation.