A couple of quick thoughts as we wait for McDoom to unlock his fingernails from No 10 and for Cameron and Clegg to sort out a government "in the national interest" - hopefully before the economy goes completely Greek.
1. 71% of the electorate DID NOT vote for McDoom and his cronies & yet they are still in number 10. If Labour had 36% of the vote and the Tories 29% the Labour party would have had a majority of 66 because of the differing sizes of constituencies favouring the Labour Party.
2. The Tories were short of an overall majority by just 16,000 votes out of the 29 million cast, spread over about 15 constituencies. They had a majority of 62 seats in England. England accounts for 25 million of the votes cast (or 86% of the electorate that voted)
3. If PR, which seems to be the buzz word (or in fact letters) since Friday, had been the electoral system today we would have 12 BNP MPs (all claiming salary & expenses from the tax payer) - even the English democrats (whoever they are) would have an MP.
4. Ken Clarke repeatedly suggested before the election that a hung parliament would unsettle the markets - The media and the Labour party called this "scare mongering", all commentators and city types now seem to agree with him - Shame they didn't before last Thursday.
5. If we abandon FPTP (First past the post) we will have this stupid negotiation after every election but would have to involve all the really minor parties (see 3 above) to form a government - That is how Hitler came to power in Germany in the 1930s
