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UK General Election — Why Now?
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UK General Election

by Bryan

Labour Party
Liberal Democratic Party
Conservative Party

Here’s Wikipedia on the 2010 UK General Election being held on May 6th. All 650 seats in the British Parliament are up for grabs and it is a three-way race. I’m using Wikipedia because it has a neutral tone and has every conceivable link to coverage at the end of the article.

In general, Labour [red] is called left of center, the Lib Dems [gold] are considered the center, and the Tories [blue] are considered right of center. There are multiple additional parties on both sides of the spectrum, and some that are single issue oriented. The three main parties all seem to poll about a third, so there is a definite possibility of a minority government. The smaller parties smell blood in the water, and are working hard to win what might be the controlling seats in the next Parliament.

All of this started at the beginning of April – the Brits don’t mess around – if you can’t do it in a month, you can’t do. They have managed to organize three TV debates for the leaders, and another debate for those who will become the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Treasury Secretary] if their party wins. The US process is a expensive waste of too much time, years for President.

If you are playing along at home:

The Labour Party is lead by Gordon Brown;
The Liberal Democratic Party is lead by Nick Clegg; and
The Conservative Party is lead by David Cameron.

None of the current leaders has lead their party during a General Election.

2 comments

1 jams O'Donnell { 04.25.10 at 1:57 pm }

It certainly is an interesting election. The Lib Dems look set to hold the balance. I would recken they will plump for a coalition with the tories. One problem is that coalitions can be poison for one of the parties.

I would not be surprised if we see another election within 18 months
.-= last blog ..Grape Hyacinth =-.

2 Bryan { 04.25.10 at 4:49 pm }

Of course, it is all down to how the vote comes out in 650 separate constituencies, no matter what the polls of the nation as a whole says.

I agree that the chances of a stable, long term government being elected this time are rather slim with all of the real and imagined problems.