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Politesub53 -> RE: UK Election result (5/12/2010 12:42:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tigreetsa
Democracy in action? Are you sure?
Yet another whose maths is faulty Stella. We had an election, Cameron won the moste votes, he won the most seats. Therefore he was the person the electorate wanted in power. Unless your clinging to some notion that because he didnt get 50% of the seats Brown actually won the election
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It would have greatly helped if the media hadn't put so much pressure on the Lib Dems and Conservatives to do a deal quickly but no, the City were getting impatient, and the media were forecasting doom and gloom if this wasn't settled quickly.
Dont you watch the stock market ? Its a bit glib blaming the media.
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Nick Clegg backtracked and Gordon Brown bottled out. I strongly believe that a very important opportunity to change our political system was lost.
The thing is, in two years, more so in five years time nobody's going to remember any of these headlines from May 2010.
If you think this coalition isnt historic and wont be remembered everytime there is a hung parliament, I am suprised at you. Clegg didnt back track, he recognised the need for stable government, something you seem to miss. Brown didnt bottle out, he was voted out...difference.
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What are we left with? Well pretty much the same as before, the banks and media in control of the country and our government run by two outdated political parties - Labour and the Conservatives - who served people well in the past but who have been outdated also for years.
So how is a Government including Conservatives and Liberals the same as before ? It is far from that with both parties running things on all levels, from the top down.
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I actually believe that there is still a chance for electoral reform and that would be through a split in the Labour Party, where a new left wing party could emerge in the mould of the left wing pragmatism of Ken Livingstone leaving behind New Labour to move centre left which would effectively break up the old two party system leading to greater diversity in our political system. If this was mirrored by a similar split in the Conservative Party spawning an offshoot to the right then this could perhaps provide a more moderate alternative to the BNP and take in the disaffected voters on the far right.
This would lead to perhaps more coalition governments, but I feel it would mean much more political diversity and certainly much more democracy than we have now. It would also break the strangehold the media have over influencing our elections in our outdated two party left vs. right political system. But most of all, it would more accurately represent everyone in our modern British society.
Several small parties would only lead to unstable government, constant elections and stagnation.
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