text:  Hail it first for getting stronger through the day, shining once again. He's speaking in pretty poetic terms there about what he sees as a huge mandate, a new era for the British government, power changing hands for the first time after 14 years of conservative rule. But he faces a lot of challenges, a state hobbled by years of austerity measures, government coffers near empty. Now, incumbent conservatives didn't just lose, they were obliterated. Why?