*ties the noose*

[hellzabeth]

So we're looking at a hung parliament*. Which sucked big time the last time it happened in the 70s.

Uhh...

Bugger.

My constituency got a huuuuuuge Conservative landslide vote, though with Lib Dem just behind. Considering I live in an area full of the elderly, I'm not surprised.

I love the BBC though. They're not allowed to show political allegiance to any party, but they just started playing "stuck in the middle with you" on the radio, otherwise known as the "hung parliament song".

Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right!
Stuck in the middle with you~!

We may end up with a minority government*, which hasn't happened since... the world wars.

Shouldn't be as paranoid as I am over this.





*A hung parliament = when there are equal votes for two or more parties, meaning equal numbers of seats in Parliament, meaning that we have no official Prime Minister, which means NOTHING GETS DONE BECAUSE NOBODY AGREES.

This is soooo going to help the financial crisis.

*Minority Government = when there is an exact balance between the two biggest parties, the third most popular party becomes the leader and mediates between the popular party. In this case it would be the Lib Dems, which I have a little more faith in, but seriously, Parliament would turn into even more of a "tell Mr Brown he's stupid" "yeah well tell Mr Cameron that he can kiss my fat hairy arse" playground situation than it already is.

Comments

[starrose]

LOL I love that song and it is perfect for this.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

*dances like a crazy person*

Oh well would you look at that.

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

There is only one real solution to solve your country's problems.

Invade France.

[coco-venus.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? They'd beat the shit out of us! (As in the French btw)

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

I was being sarcastic. XD

[coco-venus.livejournal.com]

I know :)

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

My inner England rages against it, but yeah the French would kill us all.

...

Wait, maybe if we got them to counter-invade, they'd fix things?

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

If you're going for that logic, England could always just ask American to "liberate" him from his brothers. Or something.

[oozaru-angel.livejournal.com]

Well, nothing unites a country like hating France, so you may be onto something there... I mean, they'd still lose, but united.

[katamanda.livejournal.com]

My area turned out Labour, which isn't surprising since it's mostly working class.

But shiiiiiiiiiit.

[alianorethecat.livejournal.com]

And I thought our politics was screwy. At least with just the Democrats and Republicans we know nothing like that will happen. *still wants the Libertarian party to become a major contender*

[windy-lea.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it all works out for the best?

If it helps, you'll probably still be able to say your politics are less shitty than ours. Grabbed a tidy majority and we've still had a terrible time trying to get anything done with Republicans disagreeing on seemingly everything and lobbyists paying to make sure the Democrats don't put into effect any real change.

I did have one point of confusion: Is the talk of 'coalition' between, say, the Tories and the Lib Dems (or Labour and the Lib Dems) what needs to happen in order to have a minority government?

[windy-lea.livejournal.com]

I meant to type *with Democrats and Republicans disagreeing [...]" Way to miss an entire word >.>