Greavesie wrote:dawson99 wrote:Igor Zidane wrote:dawson99 wrote:Labour lost, majority dont want them, if they do some kind of coalition there will be murder!!!
The majority didn't want the Tories either mate , that's why we have a hung parliment![]()
Anyway i've voted for a liblabsnpdupplaidcymru government . Get PR in,another general election and coalition governments all the time then . Make the feckin politicians earn there crust by working together for he good of the country .
umm, no, the majority of people DID want the tories,
but not enough for parliament or soemthing... i dunno. Labour suck tho, they lost, be gracious Brown and F*ck off
I've had this argument with my house mates.
They interpreted majority to mean more than half whereas I interpreted majority to mean more than most
Depends if you think it should be an absolute majority or overall majority. Personally, I'm inclined to agree with Dawson's interpretation, though that isn't how the election works
Yer mates are correct, Greavsie. A majority means more than half. You're talking about a plurality: more votes than the other parties.
Not my country, like, but it seems to me that the Lib Dems have all the power to play the king makers. If they decide to align with Brown, then he stays PM and Parliament chugs along as a minority for a while until the Lib Dems decide that it's time to go back to the polls.
If they go with an alliance with Cameron then Brown is fecked: he can only dig in his heels until the first confidence vote (throne speech) and then his government will fall, forcing another election. Since most people don't like watching tax-payer pounds spunked on frivilous elections every few weeks, I suspect he'd do the right thing and decide to relinquish power as soon as the Lib Dems made it clear that they would back a Tory government.
(Incidentally, Canada has been functioning with a minority government for the last few years and it's not a bad thing to have when none of the leaders of the major parties seem capable of getting up to much as PM)