Ch-ch-ch-changes.

Well... hasn't it been an eventful few days? It sure has. We had an election for one, and then 5 days later we had a new Prime Minister. Seeing as this is the first election I have really paid attention to, as it is the first one I have been able to vote in, I cannot profess to be an expert. But surely its not supposed to be that drawn out. Did someone hide the results? Or maybe they locked Mr. Brown in the house for a laugh. Oh no hang on, it wasn't any of that. The fact is we have a ridiculous voting system. It is a system where Labour or the Conservatives can acquire power with between 30-40% of votes but the Liberal Democrats need over 50%. It is a system where parties don't have the clear cut job of persuading most of the country to vote for them, but instead have to focus on so called marginal seats. It is also a system where someone who lost the election can stay on as prime minister, which is what we had for a few days. Am I being completely stupid or would it not be better for us to have a system where the party with the most votes gets in power? Unfortunately, some other people think otherwise, so we are left with this system. Labour were allowed to stay in power after the election because the 'constitution' says so and the Conservatives needed a coalition to form a strong government because they hadn't reached the magic number of 326. How on earth were they going to pass laws if they didn't have a majority? Well how about they proposed laws that were for the benefit of the country and then the other parties can vote for it because its a good idea. Of course that's not going to happen. Partly because the Conservatives struggle to understand what is for the good of the country and also be politicians are so preoccupied with points scoring and undermining each other that voting for good ideas simply because they are good ideas doesn't really appeal to them. Lets be fair though, it's not like they are real people like you and me anyway so those pieces of paper they squabble over now and again are really just pieces of paper to them, except that some of them say +/- so many votes for party X. Feel angry about this? Want to see them given a good talking to? Well then, get off your arse and do it. The reason that they are so unaccountable and disinterested is because we are not flexing our democratic muscles and using our right and power to influence government. You can tell how bad we are in this country at acting to affect government when you hear how amazing a turnout 68% of people was. That is not good enough. It still means that 32% of people eligible to vote decided that they couldn't be bothered meaning they effectively signed a social contract saying "Do whatever you want to me, I don't care. Signed by Idiot". I bet you those people will still complain when the Conservatives get rid of all the jobs and make everyone homeless with no charities left to help us. If they do complain, then I'll say this. Shut the fuck up, you have no right to complain, you didn't care who governed us so why should you care what they do? We should all, always, take an active interest in how the country is being run and get our influences in there. But we don't, so politics resorts to behaving like every other career focused playground.
Well anyway, it's all finished now. We have a bizarre Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that will struggle to get anything done. But at least we'll get to vote on the Alternative Vote. That is if you can be bothered.

P.S. A note to the Liberal Democrats... If people are spreading lies about you and undermining your potential to win votes then do something about it. Get angry and tell people that they are being fed lies and scaremongering. Otherwise all those stupid people out there are going to believe them. I mean, we know that at least 36.1% of people in this country are stupid, blind or just selfish.