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Coalition.....
......who will it be?
I took my inspiration for this idea from the London Eye on election night, which featured the colours of the three main political parties: Labour; Liberal Democrats and Conservative. See here:
2010 has seen the most exciting and intense election campaign I can remember in my 30 years of life. A unique style of campaigning with X-Factor style TV debates, people suddenly becoming obsessed with Nick Clegg thanks to his seamless and slick media performances. And history was made with the outcome delivering a hung parliament, with no party achieving an outright majority.
The Conservatives failed t get an overall majority over Labour following Labour's third term. Labour have managed to cling on to many more seats than the Tories did back in 1997 when Tony Blair was elected. Now the Liberal Democrats, the party traditionally with the least power of the big three, hold the key to the new parliament, with the power to decide whether they'll form a government with Conservative or Labour.
The aftermath of Thursday's polling day was somewhat of an anticlimax. No celebrations or repeated scenes of Tony Blair's official arrival at 10 Downing Street following his win. Just more negotiation between the Lib Dems and the other two, and conflict between the other tw as they now battle to win over the Lib Dems for a coalition. The next few days/weeks could be very interesting.
Coalition.....
......who will it be?
I took my inspiration for this idea from the London Eye on election night, which featured the colours of the three main political parties: Labour; Liberal Democrats and Conservative. See here:
2010 has seen the most exciting and intense election campaign I can remember in my 30 years of life. A unique style of campaigning with X-Factor style TV debates, people suddenly becoming obsessed with Nick Clegg thanks to his seamless and slick media performances. And history was made with the outcome delivering a hung parliament, with no party achieving an outright majority.
The Conservatives failed t get an overall majority over Labour following Labour's third term. Labour have managed to cling on to many more seats than the Tories did back in 1997 when Tony Blair was elected. Now the Liberal Democrats, the party traditionally with the least power of the big three, hold the key to the new parliament, with the power to decide whether they'll form a government with Conservative or Labour.
The aftermath of Thursday's polling day was somewhat of an anticlimax. No celebrations or repeated scenes of Tony Blair's official arrival at 10 Downing Street following his win. Just more negotiation between the Lib Dems and the other two, and conflict between the other tw as they now battle to win over the Lib Dems for a coalition. The next few days/weeks could be very interesting.