content: Ok, as someone from England, I'm going to give you an actual reason on this, rather than the "HATE DAE TORIES! TURKEYS CHRISTMAS ASDFJKL" that the usual people with a double digit IQ will spew out. Disclaimer: Voted Labor in last election, however that was in an attempt to get the SNP into power, as the SNP supported PR. Up till the last week could have seen myself voting for any of the three for various reasons. David Cameron in general represents the modernizing of the right: After 13 years out of power, the Tories have softened up compared with their Thatcher years, meaning that in politics David Cameron (In general, give me a moment) is considered to be a one of the more Liberal members of the right. He represents a stability, a responsibility both fiscally and socially that certain people like: The economy is a strong political point in the UK, and we like to consider ourselves self dependent unlike those Europeans across the pond. This was enhanced by the fact that against all prediction, his parties economic policies worked (No, I will not for a second take the answer that growth was inevitable. Left leaning economists were suggesting that these policies would lead to major recession. You do not get to revise your position after your estimates were entirely wrong and then declare yourself the winners anyways). He also seems to care, to some extent. We've seen a bunch of politically bad but ideologically strong movements coming out from the party, whether his dealings with Europe, certain increases in liberties (They removed a lot of the really bad stuff labour did in regards to this, scrapping Id cards and reducing the "detention without charge" from a month to two weeks). The major example of this is gay marriage. Politically it was a terrible move, it just wasn't that big of an issue, and all it really did was remind us that half of the Tory party are bigots, yet it was pushed through anyways. But this caring seems to be where this is coming from. Whether we like it or not, extremism is becoming an issue in the UK, yes we don't get terrorist attacks because we're really good at stopping them, but the sheer number of UK born Muslims going over to Syria, compared with the rest of the world, shows that something is going horribly wrong. The issue is that "caring" means you make dumb assed ideas such as this one. As for why the tories got back into power. As much as people will suggest that it's because of a broken something something lizard people system, in reality the main party that got hurt were UKIP, a party even further to the right of the Tories. The main winner from the broken system would be the SNP, a populist left leaning party. No the issue is that while the Tories were probably a 6.5/10 party at best, the rest of the opposition sucked. The major contenders, Labor, didn't really turn up. Suffering a divide between the actually electable center left Blairites, and the not in the slightest electable far left of the party, their entire strategy was to wait for the economy to crash and then jump in on the governments bad will without having to try. The issue was that this didn't happen, forcing a mixed sludge of a campaign that didn't really do anything, hoping for the days of Tony Blair when they actually had anything resembling leadership capabilities. Lib dems were led by a rather likable Nick cleg. The issue for them was their support base is mostly "protest vote" variety, of people too dumb to realize that a minor party in a coalition isn't going to get everything they want. So they had their voting base taken from them.  UKIP actually did really well this election, mostly screwed over by the FPTP system. However even then. they were a far right party that while not explicitly racist, has a lot of policies that attract racists that were never going to win it. And the Greens, a party so retarded and loony, that they elected a leader who possibly gave the worst political interviews ever, breaking down against the easiest questions known to (wo)man. In summary, David Cameron is among the more Liberal of the right who make dumb statements and ideas like this one occasionally, while the rest of the opposition sucked balls.