Election Outcome (6th May 2010)

The outcome of the 2010 UQ (aka UK) Ltd general election is currently unresolved though the system as it stands has been shown to be an absurdity. The number of seats returned by the voting public does not reflect the voting preferences of the voters. The Tories won 306 seats, Labour 258 and the Lib Dems 57. All the Others amounts to a total of 28. This sums to 649 and is 1 short of the new number of 650 sitting MPs: Thirsk and Malton. Boundary changes increased the original 646 to 650. A majority vote requires 650/2 + 1 = 326. No party achieved this so the result is a hung parliament, though more like strangled. Now starts the horse trading deals, much as what happened in Israel and the EU parliament farce (Treaty of Lisbon).

The ridiculous outcome (so far) is that although the Lib Dems won only 57 seats (-5 from 2005), to create a majority, a liaison between the Tories (306 = +108) and Lib Dems is mooted. The combination of this becomes 363 and is clearly a massaged total in excess of that necessary for a majority (326). Labour won 258 seats and so the voting public did not prefer Labour in favour of the Tories, so showing reasonableness on the non-level ground, the smallest share (57) is linked to the larger (306 v 258) of the two other horses in the 'three horse' race. It is apparent that the 3 horses have 11 legs between them or they are all possibly running lame. It's farcical in any case.

This is how power seems to be won:

On the back of a crippled
stage horse

For all the potential and perceived benefits of a coalition government, there is not one voter whose interests are represented. It may turn out to be good or bad, but whatever the outcome it will be without the voice of the people. The electorate did not vote for a coalition though that's what it got.

The Green Party won a single seat and this is presumably included in the Others. The combined 306 + 1 = 307 and falls short of the majority requirement (326). This will be the case for any party that could not form a majority by combining seats. The horse trading.

Perverse, bizarre, crazy, ludicrous... absurd. It could be construed that the British pawns are being stitched-up and defines the vagaries of British politics and the electoral system in the UQ (aka UK) Ltd.