Hung parliaament - phew

Gorgeous_George

You learn quickly Bullfighter.

It is clear that 2 out of 3 voters don't want the Tories, 3 out of 4 don't want Labour and 4 out of 5 don't want the Lib Dems. It is also clear that 1 in 3 don't care enough to vote.

GG

Blacklight

mitchaa wrote: »

It will be hung again then too unless they change the voting system. People will vote the same as they did do thursday.

If it was PR it would be even more chaotoic with all three parties having 30% of the house... nothing would ever get agreed.

StevieJ

Blacklight wrote: »

If it was PR it would be even more chaotoic with all three parties having 30% of the house... nothing would ever get agreed.

Germany don't do to badly out of PR.

StevieJ

Bullfighter wrote: »

Umm, well you are right that Sterling took a dive just before the election, however Sterling dropped below $1.45, from about $1.50 on Thursday evening.


Jim

Not necessarily a bad thing unless you are off on holiday to to the US.

Bullfighter

StevieJ wrote: »

Not necessarily a bad thing unless you are off on holiday to to the US.

Currency devaluation is not a bad thing at all.... unless you use energy, food or fuel on a regular basis.

tomstickland

If we had another election I expect that people would vote differently. Mainly for one of the big two.

macaque_2

carolt wrote: »

Am I the only one to be rather relieved we have a hung parliament?

I was dreading a large Tory majority, but equally, would not have been happy with Labour hanging on, either.

I was hoping for a hung parliament so that the govt actually represented the views of a wider-cross section of the electorate - I don't think any one party has the monopoly on the 'best' solutions, so hopefully if they all work together, we might get a range of sensible policies.

(And yes, I am aware that the alternative is that we get a mixture of all their most rubbish policies...but one must always hope. )

Well said!!! I completely agree.

Good government with power is great. The problem is we don't have good government. We live in an age of career politicians. Many of them have never had their capabilities tested outside the field of politics. Many are corrupt and out for personal gain (see expenses scandal, cash for questions etc). As a group they have appalling judment and hopeless management skills.

We have suffered strong goverment for 12 years. They have ransacked our industies, fostered corruption in the city, filled our streets with cameras, turned our schools into indoctrination centres, started wars, flooded our borders with millions of immigrants, created thousands of new laws etc.

It is the job of government to keep tyrants and madmen off the streets and manage the infrastructure. It is not their job to change society or micro manage our lives.

Our political leaders need their wings clipped and a lot more humility. As far as I am concerned, a hung parliament is just what we need.

Bullfighter

macaque wrote: »

Well said!!! I completely agree.

Good government with power is great. The problem is we don't have good government. We live in an age of career politicians. Many of them have never had their capabilities tested outside the field of politics. Many are corrupt and out for personal gain (see expenses scandal, cash for questions etc). As a group they have appalling judment and hopeless management skills.

We have suffered strong goverment for 12 years. They have ransacked our industies, fostered corruption in the city, filled our streets with cameras, turned our schools into indoctrination centres, started wars, flooded our borders with millions of immigrants, created thousands of new laws etc.

It is the job of government to keep tyrants and madmen off the streets and manage the infrastructure. It is not their job to change society or micro manage our lives.

Our political leaders need their wings clipped and a lot more humility. As far as I am concerned, a hung parliament is just what we need.

I agree with your sentiment, but would argue that you have now got the exact opposite.

I also want a small efficient state something along the lines of Libertarianism. What we have (or very soon might have) is a mammoth coalition which will be ineffectual and internally conflicted. A recipe for disaster given the perilous state of our finances and vigilante bond traders looking to target the UK Gilts market very soon.

Puddleglum

macaque wrote: »

Well said!!! I completely agree.

Good government with power is great. The problem is we don't have good government. We live in an age of career politicians. Many of them have never had their capabilities tested outside the field of politics. Many are corrupt and out for personal gain (see expenses scandal, cash for questions etc). As a group they have appalling judment and hopeless management skills.

We have suffered strong goverment for 12 years. They have ransacked our industies, fostered corruption in the city, filled our streets with cameras, turned our schools into indoctrination centres, started wars, flooded our borders with millions of immigrants, created thousands of new laws etc.

It is the job of government to keep tyrants and madmen off the streets and manage the infrastructure. It is not their job to change society or micro manage our lives.

Our political leaders need their wings clipped and a lot more humility. As far as I am concerned, a hung parliament is just what we need.

Hear, hear! The electorate have metaphorically banged the politicians heads together and told them to work together to tidy up the mess they created.

The problem is - can we trust them to continue playing nicely once we leave the room and get back on with dealing with the mess they have left in the other rooms in the house?

Puddleglum - Glum by name, glum by nature.

baby_boomer

Bizarrely, although Clegg may have prayed for a hung Parliament, now that he's got one Nick Robinson describes the result as a torture devised for him by the electorate.

Whatever he decides, he's going to lose.