Tuesday 11th May 2010

For anyone who actually reads this blog, you must think waiting for updates is like waiting for a bus. You wait for months for an update and now two in two days.

Poor Gordon Brown, can he do anything right? The right wing press (I refer collectively to the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph) just don't seem to be satisfied with anything he does. They've been calling for Gordon Brown to resign all weekend and when he honourably did the right thing last night the Mail called it "A SQUALID DAY FOR DEMOCRACY" and the Express "THIS SHABBY STITCH-UP". Maybe these editors are just bitter that their shamefully biased election coverage failed to put Cameron in number ten with an overall majority and instead of turning on the Tory leader they look for another scapegoat, one who has had to bear the brunt of plenty of abuse over the last couple of years.
Whether Gordon's resignation paves the way for a Labour/Lib Dem coalition remains to be seen, but I'm glad he did the right thing and hasn't succumbed to hubris syndrome, which his predecessor Tony Blair arguably suffered from.
On the subject of coalitions, I can't help but feel a Lab/Lib coalition will only damage the Labour party in the long term. The best option is to stay in opposition and then pick up the pieces when the Conservatives and/or Liberal Democrats become increasingly unpopular after making savage spending cuts. Plus, to secure an overall majority, Labour would not only have to rely on the support of the Lib Dems, but also the Scottish, Irish and Welsh parties which have a small number of seats in the House of Commons, making the process all the more complicated.
The political situation at this present time feels uncertain, but after the Tories accepted last night that there needs to a referendum on electoral reform I can see a deal being done within the next 24 hours.