10/05/19 07:55:41
>>502
It seems to be going pretty smoothly, but it's early days yet. A government
is usually chosen by the first party past a set number of locally elected
'seats'. This time, of course, nobody made it past that point. The Conservative
party won, technically, but didn't have a majority vote, so the Liberal Democrat
party joined up with them, bringing the numbers to a majority government. So even
though the Liberal Democrats came in third place, they're in a much, much stronger
position than the Labour party, who came second (and were ousted from power).
Personally, I voted Liberal Democrats, so even though my local council is still
Labour-run (most of North-East England is loyal to Labour... Tony Blair is from just
a few miles down the road), I'm pretty happy with the results. So far, anyway.
As for approval ratings, 64% of voters approve of the coalition. 87% Conservative
voters approve, and 77% LibDem voters approve. Labour voters, of course, have a
different opinion.
If Boris Johnson had been running as leader of the Conservative Party, I'd have voted
for them.
Other than the issues of moving a US base and a funds scandal, there was a recent
story on the BBC about Hatoyama...
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