More politics

Well, that all happened a lot quicker than I thought it would happen. I thought we were in for days of negotiation but no, it seems that the government conceded without any kind of a fight. If the Liberals are to be believed it sounds like they didn’t even try to form a working relationship.
A lot of sour grapes I think. After thirteen years of unchecked power it seems that the Labour party doesn’t want to share. They would rather throw their toys out of the pram and skulk off to sulk on the opposition benches.
Perhaps after three terms with such overwhelming majorities the thought of forming a minority government with the Liberals and having to pander to the Scots and the Welsh to pass anything through the house is a humiliation to far. No clear majority and too many concessions. They give up a lot and gain very little. Maybe the best idea is to let someone else sort all their messes out while they lick their wounds and plot the next election.
The left are going nuts. The casual observer would think the bloody Nazis had got into power so loud are the cries of anguish. Dave Cameron is being painted as the Anti-Christ, the resurrection of Margret Thatcher who ruined our lives and damaged the country so much we elected her three times.
A cynic would surmise they are all scared about losing their state hand-outs and are worried about their cushy public sector jobs and ridiculously high pensions. Surely not, surely they have all our best interests in mind?
The irony is any ‘Nasty Tory’ legislation will be tempered in this coalition. What we have, it would seem, is a grown up compromise, an abandonment of party politics for the good of the country. Right now we don’t need three minority parties in parliament bickering and not doing very much.
However you can’t tell Labour voters that. Anyone who doesn’t vote Labour, they would have you believe, is either stupid or a selfish bastard or both. Their arrogance has been palpable as they argue their right to rule even though they comprehensively lost the bloody election. All too quickly they co-opted the Liberal Democrats and highlighted their similarities so vehemently you would believe they were actually a splinter group of the Labour party instead of a completely separate political entity.
Well it hasn’t worked out for them. Their party didn’t want to work with the Liberals for whatever reason, probably a case of simple mathematics or perhaps maybe out of pure honour seeing as they lost the election.
Much as they loath it David Cameron is now our Prime minister despite his heinous crime of being a bit posh. This is still a hanging offence in this country, a reverse snobbery that limits the working class. I don’t care if Dave-o was born into a bit of money. How does this stop him running the country? Diane Abbot, who I actually like, is on the left of the Labour party, black and working class but none of these things stop her sending her kids to private school. Where Diane has her kids educated is up to Diane. By the same token if Dave went to a nice school good for Dave. He’s Prime minister, clearly it was worth every penny.
But Dave’s posh and Dave’s a Tory and apparently Dave didn’t stand close enough to his wife when he delivered his first speech so therefore he’s a cunt. With some people he’ll never win even though, it was reported, he cooked Sam Cam breakfast on the day of the election. To them he’ll still be nasty Tory Dave.
Of course the real winners in all of this are the Liberals. For the first time in a century they’ve got a bit of power and for all the talk about them selling out their support, how else could they have achieved this? They wouldn’t have. They’d win a seat here, a seat there, but never get into office.
Now they can push through their demands. Foremost this would be electoral reform. A change in the way we elect our representatives so that there are fewer wasted votes and a bigger proportion of views are represented in parliament. There seems to be talk of an AV system being put to a public referendum. This is how Wikipedia describes AV.

Under AV+, most candidates are elected from single-member constituencies under the Alternative Vote (AV), also known as the instant-runoff voting system. An additional 15–20% of candidates are elected under the regional party lists. Like the Additional Member System (AMS), AV+ list seats are allocated to offset the disproportionality created by the single-member constituencies. Unlike AMS, with 20% or fewer of legislators elected from party lists, AV+ would not achieve full proportionality, but would correct some of the disparity caused by single-member-district elections. List candidates are elected on open lists, meaning voters have a role in choosing which particular candidates on the party lists are elected. This helps address criticism that AV+ would create two classes of legislators: one with individual mandates and one without.


Get that? You still have a local MP but when you go to the poll you will be given the chance to vote for a second or third choice (or forth, or fifth depending on the system). If there is no clear winner with over 50% of the vote you go to the second, third, forth choice until you get one.
The MP’s on the regional lists will be elected depending on their parties’ percentage of the vote in a given region. So the higher the percentage, the further down the list you go, the more MP’s you get.
This way you get a local representative who is answerable to you and your party of choice will benefit from your vote if they don’t get elected in that particular constituency. What you end up with is the best of two systems, it’s more representative without getting into the messy carnage of proportional representation and you still have a personal contact with the executive.
This will be put to us in a referendum and we can make the choice to change.
All in all we are in very different, very exiting times. The political landscape is changing; it is indeed a new day.

Dave asked us to vote for change and now, like it or not, we have it. Everything is different now. Little did we know this is what we were going to end up with but it could be beautiful.