UK election - I wasn't going to post again, but...

[briarwood]

Six more seats. Just six more need to declare not-Tory, and we've got a hung parliament.

The newspapers are doomsaying, but really, that's the best possible result. Neither Labour nor the Conservatives are fit to govern and as amazing as a LibDem victory would be, it was never going to happen.

A hung parliament with Cameron as PM will give Labour a chance to make themselves electable again (though I doubt they can do it - it took 'em three lost elections last time) and will reign in the worst of what the Tories could do.

A hung parliament with Brown as PM...could be disastrous the next time we go to the polls, because it'll deliver a Tory landslide if he makes even one more mistake, but maybe that would get us our desperately needed electoral reform. Maybe.

And either scenario gives the LibDems a chance to prove they're worthy of power.

Either way...six more seats. I'm hopeful.

ETA: (9.40 am) 36 seats left to declare and the Conservatives need all of them for an overall majority. Just one more for any of the other parties...

ETA2: Yes! We got it!

Comments

[brilliantblaze]

Hey hon - thanks for this post, it's cheered me up a bit. I'm rather depressed at the Lib Dem results, I do hope that electoral reform follows this. The stats are saying that, to get a seat, a Lib Dem needs to get 3.5 times more votes than a Conservative does it seems. Am working from home and have the telly on in the background.

[briarwood]

Yep...and now it's just two more, with 37 yet to declare.

Surely we can manage that?

[ingo]

It's done! Hung parliament!

Er, sorry for the random intrusion. Here from Latest Things.

[briarwood]

I know! Wow...I didn't really think this would happen.

Now it's up to the smaller parties to take advantage and not screw up.

[briarwood]

It happened! We officially have a hung parliament.

Now the horse-trading begins.