So, a hung parliament, who’d thought we’d have that outcome? Will we have a Con-Lib or a Lab-Lib government? Politics has never been so exciting! Well not for a while anyway…
In the end it was a disappointing election for all three parties. Labour lost a large amount of their seats, the Lib Dems lost some seats and the Conservatives didn’t win a majority government. So what’s going to happen next? The Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats are currently in talks and it looked set that a deal may be done in the next couple of days. But today at 5pm Gordon Brown announced he’d be stepping down as leader and offering the Liberal Democrats a full government coalition. Reports Nick Clegg is in a very difficult position right now. Does he go with the Tories, probably a more popular choice with the people, but make more concessions to David Cameron and loosing the possibly of electoral reform. Or does he go with the Labour, perhaps less popular with the majority but would get more of what the Lib Dems want from Labour as well as getting Lib Dem MPs into the cabinet.
Nick Clegg did the right thing in going to the Tories first. Reports say that talks are going successfully and that progressing well. That said news of Labour’s proposal will not only turn Nick Clegg’s head but shake the Tories plans for government. If Clegg decides to turn down Cameron’s current offer then the Tories will have to step up their game if they want to win over the Lib Dems. But people have to understand that its not Clegg’s decision. Firstly Clegg isn’t even in the negotiation team, and if even if the negotiators agree, 75% of the Liberal Democrats will also have to agree with the deal. So what will happen? I have no idea, Clegg can take the safe route and go with the Conservatives or go with the Labour party and try push through a once in a political generation opportunity of electoral reform.
As for Gordon Brown, I feel for him. He made the right decision in deciding to step down, but all of the recent criticism and personal attacks from the Tory press have been unfair and a lot of the time wrong. He deserves credit for stopping a global recession Turing into a depression. The race for the labour leadership will be a three way split. It will be between Ed Balls, one of Gordon Browns closest allies, the Miliband brothers, Ed & David. The deputy leader Harriet Harman has ruled herself out of the contest. The leadership contest isn’t going to get going for a couple of weeks, well not until they do or don’t form a new coalition government.
Who will be our new government? No one knows, we can only wait and see. Politics has not been this exciting for some time, so I will be keeping you all updated regularly – whether you like it or not!
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