Thursday, May 06, 2010

Hung Parliament?

A queue at the polling station. In one of the safest Tory seats in the country, I don't expect my vote to swing the election.  But too many people around the world don't get the chance to vote, so I think it both a privilege and a responsibility to participate.

Don't think I've ever had such a long wait to vote. Is that a sign of high turnout? Bumped into our former/future(?) MP while there. He was wearing a moderate sized blue rosette: see the rules.

Interesting how the parties use words. Notice how the Lib-Dems refer to a House of Commons with no overall majority as a 'Balanced' Parliament, while Labour and Conservative parties refer to a 'Hung' Parliament. Of course, after the revelations of the past couple of years, 'hung' also refers to what many voters would rather see happen to the politicians, not the parliament!

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