See, i do hate people who cant be a***d to read political history, then pontificate in ignorance about current events.
Not worthy of a reponse
If you want to rule without being held to ransom, you need 326 seats, otherwise your a minority or coalition government.
Or: If you want to push through your party's policy with little discussion and no compromise you need a majority. Hence so many bad laws, especially in then last 13 years.
EVERY SINGLE minority government in the last 120 years has collapsed within 3 weeks - 7 months, all six of them, except one (Ramsey Macdonald lasted 43 months, but then he did nothing, and therefore upset no one)
Opinion again. But also points to the immaturity of politicians to not act in best interests of the country, putting their party first. Oh BTW we won the Second World War with a 3 party coalition!
See, i do hate people who cant be a***d to read political history, then pontificate in ignorance about current events.
I fully agree
and, as ive said before, what goes on in other countries is nothing to do with us.
Yeah right, like Greece who have a majority government. WE have had strong majority governments thats why WE have a cracking credit rating.
Germany, New Zealand and others have a minority government and their credit rating is superior to ours. If we do NOT have strong government, and no coalition brings strong government, just a mess of fudge, compromise and obfucation,
I suggest you read up on other country's systems before taking such a biased and immature view. then the markets WILL take fright, sterling will collapse, the FTSE will plummet, and they pull our credit rating.
The Greece situation and the international response to it is affecting our financial markets. The balanced parliament has been priced into our financial market for days if not weeks now. Thats makes our debt interest payments bigger, and makes it harder and longer to get straight. Its already starting to happen, sterling has drooped to a 1 year low and the FTSE lost 7.5% today.
You're taking a real event and applying your cause to it.
Other countries may get on fine with coalitions, we in the uk have had strong government for 37 years,
that's why we flip flop between policies instead of steering a steady, sensible, mature course through history. thats why we did so well, and why we nee dto have majority government to get out the very deep horse poo Labour has lead us into.
You think we've done so well???