Lets start with politics

Well, there has been a small little thing called an ELECTION since I've been gone. A new "kind of politics" has come into motion. The Tories and the Lib Dem's are now in coalition, the first time in 13 a Tory PM has been in Downing street and the first liberals in the Cabinet since the 2nd World War!

Firstly lets say a well done to Nick Clegg. Lets face it, if the Lib Dem's still had Sir Ming as their leader, I doubt they would've done very well. As soon as that first debate ended I knew that we had just seen history and MAYBE (JUST MAYBE) we might see the Lib Dem's in power. They've done extremly well and they've got as good a deal as possible between themselves and the Tories.

Also well done to David Cameron, after 2 years as opposition leader, he's finally in Downing Street and ready to do business. Just think though, if the Tories hadn't got power, the Tories would've kicked him of the leadership post in the party and they'd be doing a Labour.

I'll be honest, I voted Labour in the general election, personally I chose Labour on the basis of:

My MP is a Labour MP
Is he doing a good job? Yes!
Then he'll do nicely

Of course the poltiical landscape in Bury (where I live) has changed a lot. Ivan Lewis kept his seat in Bury South but with a much smaller majority (from 50% in 2005 to 40% in 2010) And David Nuttal beat the Labour candidate quite convisingly (but with a much smaller majority than expected.

I was listening to a radio 4 programme the Saturday after the coalition had been announced and an analysist said that all the major parites had done really well in the election. Lets just have a look at firstly the expectations and then the actual results:

Conservatives: 12 months ago they had a 10-20 point lead in all the opinion polls. Expected a landslide maybe bigger than that of Tony Blair in 1997
Labour: Expected to loose power and to loose pretty badly
Lib Dems: Expected a huge amount of new seats

Conservatives: Didn't get overall power, had to make a coalition with the Lib Dem's to get into power
Labour: Didn't have such a bad night, kept the Tories out of government and clung on to power by being the party with the most amount of seats
Lib Dems: Didn't win any new seats and in fact lost 3

From what I can see, the party that actually LOST the election (Labour) was the best performing party! Hows that fair????

I know that this was a pretty big rant, but hey ho, and I'm sure it'll bring some entertainment to someones life :)

Bye for now, might do another blog tonight or you might just have to wait tomorrow