On the UK election results

[Drop Bear]

The results have been on the news here.

With gleeful schadenfreude, the local media pointed out the UK has its first hung parliament n 36 years. Here in South Australia,we had our last one a few months ago.




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From the Weekend Australian Saturday 8 May: :

NICK GRIFFIN,British National Party leader failed to win a seat,depriving us of the opportunity of being able to refer to him as 'the member for Barking'

------PADDY ASHDOWN ,erstswhile leader of the Liberal Democrats declared;

" The country has spoken,but we do not know what it has said"

[bindeweede]

The results have been on the news here.

With gleeful schadenfreude, the local media pointed out the UK has its first hung parliament n 36 years. Here in South Australia,we had our last one a few months ago.




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From the Weekend Australian Saturday 8 May: :

NICK GRIFFIN,British National Party leader failed to win a seat,depriving us of the opportunity of being able to refer to him as 'the member for Barking'

------PADDY ASHDOWN ,erstswhile leader of the Liberal Democrats declared;

" The country has spoken,but we do not know what it has said"

This article, if the content is accurate, might put a spanner in the works for a Tory - LibDem coalition.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...ed-eurosceptic

[brianp]

But what's the alternative to a Con / LibDem arrangement of some sort? Cleggy has already said he won't help keep a defeated PM in No 10, and, if reports* on the BBC yesterday are to be believed, Gordo has apparently sealed his fate by phoning Cleggy and giving him a tongue lashing. I suppose a new Labour leader might have a hope - but who? Balls? Milliband I? Milliband II? Johnson? Hattie? On second thoughts, they haven't got a hope.

*8th May 1135: Liberal Democrat sources have told the BBC's Jon Sopel that Gordon Brown delivered a diatribe laced with threats when he spoke to Nick Clegg last night

[bindeweede]

From The Independent on Sunday.

Senior Lib Dem figures were pressing Mr Clegg to shun Mr Cameron's overtures because the Tories would never deliver on PR. And in a major blow to the Lib Dem leader, senior Tory sources made clear there would be no further concessions on electoral reform – presenting Mr Clegg with a hardball "take it or leave it" deal – and that Mr Cameron would press ahead with a minority government if coalition talks collapsed. Talks between Lib Dems and Tory negotiating teams will resume at 11am today.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...m-1969467.html

[newatheist]

Has anyone confronted Cameron on the issue of FPTP? Has he been confronted with the question of whether FPTP is fair or not?

Also, the leaked document has made it quite obvious that Cameron is no less conservative than the rest of his party and any smell of liberal is just a perfume to lure the voters.

And the people need to wake up to the delusion that a hung parliament is a bad thing.

[Carnivore]

Has anyone confronted Cameron on the issue of FPTP? Has he been confronted with the question of whether FPTP is fair or not?

From the BBC website:

David Cameron recently said of proportional representation: "It doesn't put power in the hands of the people, it puts power in the hands of politicians." He added that first-past-the-post "is a decisive way of changing our government."

His first sentence seems to me to be the exact opposite of the truth. His second sentence seems to acknowledge that, given the way he used "decisive" instead of "fair".