Hung parliaments might be about to get a lot more common. There have been a number of electoral boundary changes since Labour took power in 1997, and there's a feeling it would be tough for the Tories to get a large majority now. (They actually got the same percentage of the vote last night as Labour got in 2005, which gave Labour a majority of 60, but has left the Tories 20 seats short.) And of course, if Nick Clegg gets his way on PR as a condition of coalition, hung parliaments will become the norm XD
Nothing getting done is definitely a large part of business as usual for politicians! But sadly, right now, nothing is really not an option. Somebody's going to have to take some serious action to fix the economy, after dear Gordon left the British debt increasing by almost half a billion pounds a day :-( The pound dropped 5c against the dollar last night just through the uncertainty.
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Date: 2010-05-07 10:26 pm (UTC)Nothing getting done is definitely a large part of business as usual for politicians! But sadly, right now, nothing is really not an option. Somebody's going to have to take some serious action to fix the economy, after dear Gordon left the British debt increasing by almost half a billion pounds a day :-( The pound dropped 5c against the dollar last night just through the uncertainty.