{"id":1894,"date":"2010-05-09T00:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2014-05-28T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T01:54:58","slug":"uk-election-2010-the-dating-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"UK Election 2010 – The Dating Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

So with a Mexican stand-off in place between Brown and Cameron, and the election results left gridlocked in a hung parliament, its time for everyone to pony up to Nick Clegg and see if they can woo him into a coalition that will ultimately decide who governs the UK.\u00a0 We could be talking about a Progressive Coaltion<\/em> here folks.\u00a0 As someone who lives in a country that has a two party system where both parties are Centre-Right, I’m totally jealous.\u00a0 Our third biggest political party is even more conservative<\/em>.\u00a0 What kind of bullshit representation is that?<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s talk after the last couple of days about major electoral reform being required in the UK.\u00a0 The feeling being that the Lib-Dems got stung by a ‘first past the post’ system that can encourage voters to tactically switch their votes away to another party if they feel it’ll make or break the overall outcome.\u00a0 I can sort of see the logic in it.\u00a0 Whats also interesting to see is the genuine spread of votes which meant that even though Cameron won the popular vote, he still only represents barely a third of the voting public.<\/p>\n

For now, its still unclear what Clegg will do.\u00a0 Britain waits, with a somewhat bated breath (Britain’s Got Talent<\/em> still rated better than any of the Electoral Debates)<\/p>\n

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So with a Mexican stand-off in place between Brown and Cameron, and the election results left gridlocked in a hung parliament, its time for everyone to pony up to Nick Clegg and see if they can woo him into a coalition that will ultimately decide who governs the UK.\u00a0 We could be talking about a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,513,507,512,518,514],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-awkward-courtship","tag-david-cameron","tag-election","tag-gordon-brown","tag-hung-parliament","tag-nick-clegg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15396,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/15396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}