Hung Parliament: falling prices
Well its over, for now. The election 2010 style showed we dont really know whats going to happen. We cant even decide what we want! Enough people wanted the status quo to keep David Cameron on the sidelines for the moment, Nick Clegg will have a casting vote even though he got a record low number of votes.
No matter which party forms a government it looks like the strong leadership and 4/5 year vision that could have turned round property crisis from one of the two main parties has gone, meaning we will get a fudge and compromise that will suit few people if any. The recent slowdown in the recovery and fall in some areas for property prices makes the next 6 months crucial. Watching the election TV debates its clear that the 3 parties have little common ground could we expect anything positive from a compromise between two parties?
Most people will be hardly bothered about proportional representation if they have a real danger of losing their house and who ever gets in should sort out the financial situation first and move onto less pressing issues like the environment etc.
I was also amused to see that local councils were suprised by the numbers of voters and many falied to vote in time, do they not get a list and exact number of voters and budget for that number? Or did the people simply leave it too late to vote? If you walked in at 5 to ten and was a big line waiting its your own fault really!! Or did the local councils budget for the usual number, doing the minimum amount of work they could get away with?