So Election night happened, which turned into election early-morning, and the results are in!
We have a
Honestly, this was the most likely result that I would of thought possible, It would of been nice to see the lib dems gain power but, as it turns out, no matter how much momentum and popularity they had going into the election absolutely none of it transferred into votes and they did as well as they always have - Poorly. This came as quite a surprise, but then It seemed less shocking when took off my "Optimist" hat, and put on my "Realist" hat.
There HAS, however, been quite a scandal with the polling stations, as many hundreds of people all over the country ended up being unable to vote, for various reasons including "Ran out of ballot paper" and "Only had 4 voting booths for 30,000 people"; ie, incredibly poor organisation. This will most likely be the hot topic for politics, Political reform, now that the election is over.
In the End the conservatives had the most votes, won the most seats, but didn't get enough of either to win an outright majority AND with a Hung parliament, comes the rare opportunity for a coalition government to be formed and this is pretty damn good news for the lib dems.
The short version of what any of that means is this - Party's need 326 "Seats" in parliment to be able to take power on their own. The Tories got just over 300 and Labor got just over 250 meaning that to make up the remaining seats to take power, they have to join forces with ANOTHER party. So now the Lib dems can essentially bargain with the Conservatives OR Labor to give them some things they want in exchange for the seats they won...basically making the lib dems the king makers.
It will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out.
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