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I am so, so sorry. *HUGS*

This can't work. How is this supposed to work? It doesn't make any logical sense. >.<

NOOOOO, I AM SO SORRY

DDDDDDDDDD:

I am so, so sorry.

If it's any consolation, we elected Obama after (an unfortunate 8 years) of Bush. ::hugs::

Light at the end of the tunnel and all that. Sorry. Couldn't get it to edit.

Yes, absolutely - the one upside is that this gives Labour time to regroup, which I think they really need.

I second the Obama comment and good luck

I just hope they're better at regrouping than the Canadian Liberals.

Butting in for no apparent reason, but, I happened to watch the handover last night (it was a slow tv day, yeah?) and I thought that the Labour strategy post-election's been pretty solid, all things considered. Brown's resignation knocked everyone on their arse, and I actually looked at the clock: it took the political commentators at the BBC 19 minutes after Brown's resignation speech to start questioning Cameron's competence. He didn't even have the job yet, at that point. That was fairly brilliant manoeuvring, that was. There's hope yet; I doubt this government can last long.

So, so sorry. Many, many condolences.

Looking on the bright side(?), it's all a bit Pushme-Pullyu and may come apart at the seams within a year or two. I'm not sure it's a great plan for the LibDems, but they will at least be able (and hopefully willing) to tone down some of the worst of it as the price of support.

Yeah. I'm hoping the Lib Dems have some kind of really foolproof plan, but that's basically the triumph of hope over experience on my part.

I... don't really understand this. How can the Conservatives form a coalition gov't with the Lib-Dems? Aren't they... like, opposed to one another? How will that work? Am I being particularly stupid & ignorant & American-ish?

I honestly couldn't tell you - supposedly there have been some concessions on both sides, but I really have no idea how this is supposed to work.

Ugh, I do not like this arrangement at all, but, from what I could garner from the BBC liveblog, a Lib-Lab pact was stabbed in the back by recalcitrant figures in the Labour Party, so -- I don't know. I'm not certain what other configuration would have worked, from Nick Clegg's point of view; it was pretty much a lose-lose-lose situation all around as soon as the election results were confirmed. :/

Interesting times ahead, then. I can only hope the Lib Dems manage to keep the Tories in check; otherwise, I imagine that it's back to the political wilderness with them for a very long while.

*hugs more* :S

ciderpress has a post which I found interesting? If nothing else there is a paragraph mocking the "bad Regency novel" language (must find out which paper that harlot comment was from!) that veers into AU territory, heh.

*jumps into thread* Here's the harlot comment!

Ooh, thanks!

(... it is probably wrong of me to be dying of laughter, innit. "Every harlot in history!", though, asdf;lkj!)

:(

Now I understand why all the Americans on my flist seemed to be investigating emigrating to Canada in 2004.

WHAT IS ALL THIS RUBBISH I DON'T EVEN AMY HELP I'M SCARED!

I would invite you to live with me in Canada, but we do have a Conservative government ATM ...