UK General Election 2010

It would appear by the time we all head off to bed tonight the Conservatives under David Cameron will have or will be very close to a deal with Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats to secure David Cameron as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain. As a Labour voter (though not a strong Labour supporter) […]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has today announced he will step down as Labour leader just as soon as the Labour party can arrange a new leader: he mentioned he hopes the new leader would be in place before the Labour Party Conference which is 4 months from now. What this means is if the Conservative […]

With meetings between Senior Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenchers at the Cabinet Office apparently going amicably are we looking at an unlikely Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government allowing David Cameron to oust Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? Hard to believe with all the niceties we are seeing in the news between the Tories and […]

Whom ever ‘wins’ this general election I will send them a caricature of themselves via email. If it’s a coalition/hung parliament then the two party leaders will receive a picture via email of themselves winning :D. May the best leader win. 8) :D 8)

Election 2010 Political Highlights This election is not only the first I’ve studied/followed in depth but an interesting one. It all started at the polling booth with people being turned away, and having the first Green MP elected in the UK, we had some pathetic party election broadcasts like the tediously long Plaid Cymru advert […]

I’m going to throw out an idea mainly for Labour supporters to discuss, though I know it won’t only be Labour commenter’s :-) Considering Labour’s been in power 13 years, we’ve had two disastrous and very expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ~10 years of economic success followed by 3 years of economic strife (not […]

It’s Officially a Hung Parliament :D If you’ve watched the exit polls/results, then you have probably realised it’s a parliament. If your at home right now and scratching your head thinking “what’s a hung parliament?” well it means one party hasn’t got enough votes to establish a government on it’s own, so two parties join […]

The UK general election 2010 results are in. Below is a table of results for all political parties that gained at least one parliamentary constituency. What a complete surprise that the Liberal Democrat rise in the polls did not equate even to a significant increase in the share of the popular vote and actually resulted […]