Well, this is going to be interesting....

[tiggymalvern]

Not the first hung Parliament of my lifetime, but definitely the first one I can remember.

I thought Gordon Brown was a bloody awful Chancellor after Labour's first term, and a barely credible Prime Minister, but I've always regarded him as a basically honest guy, who actually believed in what he was doing. If he attempts to cling onto power now, after the public have effectively told him to FOAD with around 28% of the vote, he will lose that one piece of respect I had for him. The voters never have elected him, and apparently they never will elect him. The Lib Dems have a point on electoral reform, when it's even possible that Gordon can attempt to call himself PM after this.

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[arafel.livejournal.com]

We were watching the election results this morning on the BBC. I didn't realize that hung Parliaments happened so infrequently. The one Briton I asked about the results felt that it meant nothing was ever going to get done, which is pretty much politics as usual, right?