The US resolution never had much hope of being passed as Russia and China were opposed to it from the start. But the scale of the defeat has been an embarrassment.
One of the things I take away from your big read, George, was the comparison to the last major Conservative blowout, which is in 1997 when Tony Blair won for Labour.
" No longer. The Battle of the Blackwater changed all. The rose and the lion joined there, to shatter Stannis Baratheon's host and burn his fleet to ashes" .