O'rly
many people cast their vote based on who is the leader of a party, if Brown was not Labour leader they may have kept a few seats
Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***
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O'rly
many people cast their vote based on who is the leader of a party, if Brown was not Labour leader they may have kept a few seats
The Queen will ask Cameron to form a coalition government with the Lib Dems.Having not really cared about politics up until this election, can someone explain to me in simple terms what it means if it stays in this sort of ratio of seats? How does it work? (please dont link me to a bbc explanation, i want simple short answers)
I think he increased his majority, it was certainly very large.
So i can only hope that that queen has more sense than 10million voters then and doesn't do that?
Given the numbers, we don't really have much choice or we'll have a hung/lame parliament in perpetuity.
yeah but dave needs 37
On the other hand, Libs + Lab need 30 combined to have a majority together, and Gordon gets the first shot at a coalition...
No chance of Dave getting in before Gordon's resigned..
as I said she can't until GB has resigned and then only after the con and lib agree. Before they do that, they have to come to some agreement as to what they are going to do.
I suspect GB will be in power until Monday at least.
Under our system we can only be with out a PM for 1 hour and obviously the old one has to resign first.
This result will not be game over for anyone.
Having not really cared about politics up until this election, can someone explain to me in simple terms what it means if it stays in this sort of ratio of seats? How does it work? (please dont link me to a bbc explanation, i want simple short answers
It means that Gordon Brown stays as PM and tries to either form a coalition or decide to form a government with a minority number of seats. Of course the house then could do a vote of no confidence in the Government and boot them out.
If Gordon Brown decides he can't form a workable government, he resigns to the Queen. Then and only then can Cameron as the party leader with the most seats try and form a coalition or a decide he can form a government with a minority. He then becomes PM.
Of course if they all fall out and can't agree we have another election but this is unlikely.
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Unless they offer Money to Wales and NI, then offer more freedom to Scotland and sweep up all the other parties.
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OK, maybe 2 months was an exaggeration but there will be another election before this year's out.
Bending over and taking it up the proverbial from the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists along with the NI parties would be political suicide.
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She can't. She doesn't get involved. She can only accept that Gordon is staying as PM or resigns. She can't ask Cameron.
aren't the beeb predicting the tories will get 18? so lib/lab short by 10, of course I am assuming no 'others'.
So lib/lab short by 10, con short by 19. Interesting, what will Clegg say about Brown? Probably byebye Brown at that point, hello Mr Fall Guy.