Apparently, this was a condition for a Labour – Liberal Democrat coalition, and the Tories seem to have been caught with their collective pants down once again.

In other words, you lied!

” In the recent, inconclusive elections in the UK, there was a decisive outcome: the BNP, British National Party, the home to British fascism and xenophobia, and roughly equivalent to the (White) Tea Party in the US, was thoroughly trounced not only in Parliamentary elections, but also local council elections.”

by none other than the phony queen

Two (2) questions Jeff Merill:

#1 What in the world are you talking about, Jeff Merrill?

Where did you find the peyote, Jeff Merrill?

Olbyloon Ed
Todays student: robert the “world traveler” and bare handed cougar catcher

“His resignation follows the general election last week which resulted in a hung parliament despite the Conservative Party winning the most seats.”

How blessed we are. The King is constantly traveling the world, yet he still finds time to attend his black Muslim meetings and visit this site to impart his wisdom to the masses.

Jeff, you obviously don’t understand what “majority” means. Simply put, it is one vote more than half. The Tories fizzled at the end, after huge poll numbers when the campaign first started. They did not get a majority. True, no one else did. However, the English system does not function without a majority or without a coalition which then pushes the numbers over the half way mark. The Tories seem to be unable to form such a coalition.

I can certainly understand where a reasonable person might be confused since the Tory or Conservative position is dissimilar to the rightist position in the US. The Tories supported increased NHS funding and schools funding, they supported environmental positions and they opposed the third runway at Heathrow. In other words, the Tories show respect and empathy for the average Brit, unlike the rightists in the US who loathe the average American. One would think that, given these positions, the Tories ought to be able to form a coalition more simply. I am beginning to think that David Cameron is not held in high regard.

Last night, John Stewart suggested that if a new government is not formed by the time of the annual Queen’s Speech to Parliament, one of the Queen’s Corgis, Sir Winston Fur-Chill, will become PM, or, perhaps one of the royal cats, Lady Margaret Scratcher.l

And now the phony queen is doing the backpedal/spin. ;)

The situation gets even more fascinating. Labour and the Lib Dems have called off the negotiations, at least for the time, and Clegg is meeting with Cameron personally as we speak. The Lib Dems will vote on something called a “coalition in principle”. Apparently, Cameron, on behalf of the Conservatives/Tories, have caved in on some of the more significant budget cuts. If the deal is, in fact, reached, Cameron and the Tories will form the new gouvernment. The consensus seems to be that it will shortly fail and new elections will occur as early as September.

It’s unclear to me who is ex officio head of Labour at the moment, perhaps Miliband. If so, I expect Clegg will leave Cameron’s office, head for Miliband’s with an agreement with Cameron in hand, and say, “Can you better this?”

Fascinating that the Lib Dems seem to be wielding all the power after a rather poor performance.

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Might I say, Jeff, for your own good, you obviously are far, far more ignorant about this matter than you are even on all of the other topics on which you are ignorant. You are really embarrassing yourself here. You ought to go to another thread where your ignorance is not so profound.

British National Party is the equivalent of a large segment of the Republican party. Quite a sickening bunch of people.

>Fascinating that the Lib Dems seem to be wielding all the power after a rather poor performance.

Welcome to parliamentary democracy.