Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government
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I had been really into that election while waiting for the US midterms to come and it was interesting to watch the "coalition government" which I don't have much experience in seeing, being in the US and too young to remember anything similar.
It sounded like an interesting premise: Unfortunately, it doesn't turn out that way. I was not familiar with either author and thought the introduction showed promise. So imagine my disappointment at how tedious the writing was. There wasn't much transition between the three, and while I understand the authors were trying to get all three men since their individual stories are obviously all intertwined in, but it made for jumpy reading. I had not realized these authors are journalists both for Sky News at the time , but it looks like my reading preference to NOT read books by journalists extend to books written by UK reporters too.
I don't believe I'm very familiar with either of their work, but the book is just downright boring.
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Might be good for a UK political student, but for someone who has a more casual interest, this isn't a great read. May 15, Toni rated it liked it Shelves: I picked this up because it felt as though the UK was heading for another hung parliament in and I wanted to refresh my memory of how it all played out in As it happened, there wasn't a hung parliament, but it was still good revision.
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The Conservatives have won the most MPs in the UK general election but fallen short of a majority, leading to the first hung parliament since As counting continues the Tories have gained 92 seats, Labour have lost 86 and the Lib Dems six, despite hopes of a breakthrough for the third party. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the situation was "fluid" but the Tories had the first right to seek to govern.
Arriving back at Lib Dem headquarters in London, he said: He said he "stuck by" his view that the party with the biggest mandate - in terms of votes and seats - should have the right to seek to govern first. Conservative leader David Cameron will make a statement at BST in which he will set out how he will seek to form a government that is "strong and stable" with broad support that acts in the national interest.
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The Tories have won seats so far but it is now not possible for them to reach the seats needed to win an overall majority. Mr Brown, whose party has seats so far, has returned to Downing Street with aides and is expected to make an offer to Mr Clegg's Lib Dems, who have so far won 51 seats, to try to form a coalition government.
Downing Street has authorised the civil service to support other parties in hung parliament negotiations - essentially giving the go-ahead for talks to begin. If there are 10 Unionists elected in Northern Ireland then Mr Cameron might be able to command - probably still slightly too few for him to be sure of winning a Queen's Speech.
General election 2010: Can Gordon Brown put together a rainbow coalition?
Senior Labour figures have said that under the rules of Britain's constitution, the sitting prime minister in a hung parliament makes the first attempt at forming a ruling coalition. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said Mr Brown had returned to Number 10, and was going to rest and "catch his breath" adding: Asked if it would be "inconceivable" to have a Labour minority or coalition government which did not have Gordon Brown as prime minister, Lord Mandelson said: Shadow schools secretary Michael Gove said voters would not be "entirely happy" if Mr Brown "after a defeat like this, were to try to cling on and try to form some sort of coalition of the defeated, some sort of alliance of the dispossessed".
Disappointing rambly book about the UK election In light of the recent UK election, I had meant to read this sooner as a primer to the actual Election Day which I didn't really follow anyway. At the time of the election Welsh constituencies had electorates on average around 14, smaller than their counterparts in England. Scotland saw its most recent large-scale review completed in , so its 59 constituencies remained the same as at the general election. This pork barrel politics will not enthuse many English voters. Stewart marked it as to-read Jul 10, Want to Read saving…. Later that day, the two parties jointly published the Conservative—Liberal Democrat coalition agreement specifying the terms of the coalition deal.
The logical next step is for David Cameron to form a Conservative-led government. Mr Clegg - whose party have not performed as well as expected after a poll surge for the Lib Dems after the first live TV debate - cautioned other leaders against "rushing into making claims or taking decisions" which did not stand the test of time. He urged everyone involved to "take a little time" to ensure people got the government they deserved during these "difficult times".
The Conservatives are predicted to take seats in England, with Labour on and the Lib Dems on The Tories have also made significant gains in Wales - where Labour also regained their former stronghold Blaenau Gwent - but the Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru failed to gain target seats. But in Scotland the Tories failed to make a significant breakthrough, while the Labour vote held up, with the party re-taking two seats it lost in by-elections - Glasgow East and Dunfermline and West Fife.
Hung Together: The Election and the Coalition Government by Adam Boulton
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