Are the voters getting what they asked for? Well, at least under the British system a large chunk of voters usually do get what they voted for - this current situation is a little unusual, but in the end that same logic is going to hold true. Under our present system no-one gets what they voted for - we get some watered-down and twisted combination of part-policies spawned out of horse-trading between competing minority groups and larger factions desperate to form a government!
"They clearly voted for the center left: 53% Labour and Liberal Democrats" ... It just goes to show that you can bend statistics to mean whatever your particular political bias wants it to mean. Whatever happened to the fact that the Conservatives got the most votes and the most seats. Shouldn't it really be the Conservatives and Labour forming a coalition if you really want to talk about what the public "clearly" voted for. Putting together some random selection of groups because together they commanded more than 50% of the vote is definitely not what the people voted for! I notice also that people with an irrational bias towards the Labour party refer to the Conservative party as "The Tories" as if it helps to demean a party by not using their correct name. The largest media service in this country (The BBC) have been doing this for years now too. The fact that Gordon Brown still manages to promote himself as a fiscal genius when he has proven time and time that he is most certainly not, can surely only be put down to biased media. Didn't Nick Clegg state that he would form a coalition with the party that commanded the most votes. Should he decide to form a coalition with the Labour party, is that an indication as to how truthful he plans to be?
cameron got 2million votes more, how can it be right for anyone other than him to be confirmed as prime ministe, the labour party will offer lib dems anything to stay in power, the chief architect of the labour plan will be mandleson - who twice had to leave the government for disreputable behaviour. nick cleg obviously does not have the country's interests in mind he is soley seeking pr he does not seem to compehend the injustice to the british public of forming a lab - lib pact