Hung Parliament …. “What happened next?”
Get ready! It seems like a Hung Parliament is a’coming. So, swot up ahead of time and appear learned about the events we’re likely to see unfold. Journalists are salivating over the overdrive of excitement we’re about to witness.
Despite the possibility that Gordon Brown might have ‘lost’ the election, it may be that Britain wakes up to find him still there as Prime Minister. Even though he has lost his majority and even though he no longer represents the largest party, Gordon Brown is the PM until he resigns. He can (and given desperation most likely he will) seek approval to prepare a Queen’s Speech as if the election has not ever happened.
When a PM resigns the Queen invites someone else to become PM, immediately. There must be no period without government. The Queen will not get involved in any way with anything that could be deemed partisan and so will not be personally embroiled in negotiations – something that is more to the liking of the parliamentarian end of the gene pool in her realm. The key thing here is that the Queen is looking for whoever is most capable of getting a Queen’s Speech and Budget passed in the House; usually whoever is leader of the largest party, but not necessarily so.
It’s all back to the drawing board if a PM loses a vote of confidence and they have to resign, causing the dissolution of Parliament. That said the Queen could refuse Parliament this right given Parliament has only just been elected.
It looks like the once forgotten “smoke-filled backrooms” of old will come into their own again as Nick Clegg’s and David Cameron’s henchmen play out a game of political poker with the winner taking to the steps of Number 10.
The ‘X Factor” election now becomes more like “Big Brother’s Little Brother” with Sue Barker asking “What happened next?”
Tags: 2010, Big Brother, David Cameron, General Election, Gordon Brown, Hung Parliament, Jury Team, Nick Clegg, Prime Minister, Queens Speech, The Queen, X Factor
