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Since May 6th a lot of fiasco has been created in accordance to the general election.
We now have a prime minister! David Cameron and the Conservatives have now entered a coalition with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats.
In this coalition David Cameron is prime minister with Nick Clegg as the deputy. In other roles, William Hague of Conservative will be the new Foreign Secretary and George Osborne is officially the Chancellor as Vince Cable gets given a role in Banking/Business. David Laws has been tipped of to be the new education secretary.
On the 11th May they published a document including some coalition agreements, this includes very little detail and gives no straight answers or policies as to what they actually are going to do, in accordance to education and higher education they are still waiting for a report from Lord Browne as to the funding available then they will assess the situation again, but they don’t state how long this will take. They do however stick by there what they said and are totally against the building of a third runway at Heathrow and expansion in Gatwick and Stansted.
How did we get here?
Since the announcement that there will be a general election on May 6th all of the parties have been campaigning to gain seats in all the constituencies they can, with televised debates and door to door visits David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg have all tried to convince as many people as possible that they will cut the deficit without sending us into a deeper recession, they will ‘clean up politics’ and support the poorest. And although the polls suggested that there had been a huge soar in support for Liberal Democrats it wasn’t evident in the final poll where they had less seats than they had in the previous election, this is because we do not have proportional representation in the UK which is something that the liberal democrats campaign for, this means that because the Liberal Democrat candidates are so thinly spread across the country that had less chance of getting into power no matter what the polls before the election said. And as conservative seats soared and Labours plummeted we were all set for a hung parliament just as the exit poll had suggested, the future was unclear for this period as talks began between the three main parties.
After much deliberation the Liberal Democrats agreed to a coalition between themselves and the conservatives much to the anguish of many and joy of others, this coalition means that the conservative-liberal democrat leadership now have a majority in the House of Commons and can now pass laws successfully.
What could have happened?
We could have had a minority conservative government; this would mean however it would be very difficult to pass laws as they would not have enough seats within their own party to pass a law without another parties support.
We could have had a coalition between liberal democrats, labour and the other parties such as the green party; this would be very unlikely as it would make the system look unfair because none of these parties got the most votes in the actual election, and however the majority of people would be represented.
What’s happened to Labour?
Gordon Brown resigned the day David Cameron came into power and accepted part responsibility for the Labour party losing the general election, now Harriet Harman is stand in leader for the Labour Party and they are running there on leadership contest with David Milliband, the ex foreign secretary and Ed Milliband the former energy secretary (who yes are brothers!) the only people to announce that they will be running so far, but other possible leaders being Ed balls the former schools secretary and Andy Burnham the former health secretary.
Gordon Brown
As you may be able to tell, I am a labour supporter and Gordon Brown to me has not been given the credit he deserves. Gordon Brown was in charge of the economy when we had our most prosperous years and has made many good moves in his job, when he intercepted Northern Rocks fall he supported the economy and you have to ask yourself, would David Cameron do this? I believe that Gordon Brown stopped the recession becoming a depression and showed true passion towards what he believed was right for the country. Maybe he could of done better if he had saved money while we were doing well, but he wanted to give the money that the country was making back to the people through sure start, child tax credits, EMA and other successful schemes that many of you would have been affected by. Also, the huge downturn in the economy was not started in the UK because of Gordon Brown, it is happening all over the world and the fact that most citizens in the UK hold Gordon Brown/the Labour party fully responsible is terrible, Gordon Brown took on our country at a very fragile time when he knew that our economy was not surviving when he could have just announced another general election.
David Cameron
A quote from the BBC: ‘He may speak the language of modernity and change, but in many ways Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron is a throwback to an earlier era of Conservative leaders’ David Cameron promises to bring change
At 43, he is the youngest prime minister, like Mr Blair, he has a young family and an informal, self-consciously modern approach to politics. Mr Blair arrived at Number 10 with a guitar case in hand. Mr Cameron has his cycling helmet on his handlebars and fondness for indie rock. Educated at Eton and Oxford with a first in PPE(Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he supports Aston Villa and although nothing official has been announced about taking away our EMA, free travel or making university less accessible to the poor if sure that in the up and coming months more and more of his policies will be coming through.
THIS MAN IS REPRESNTING YOU!
How does the future look?
Depending on how successful the coalition works out will form the future of our country, Liberal Democrats and Conservative have for a long time been perceived as totally opposite parties who stand for totally different things, however if the coalition works then they will have a successful stay in power. However if the coalition does not work, there is likely to be another election and by this time Labour will have a new leader...
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