...or is it History in the Making?

So my previous blog post proved to be relatively close in terms of Conservative seats won (I was only 6 out, and possibly only 5 if the last remaining seat stays Tory, as is expected).

But I was clearly wrong when I suggested that history was repeating. Having been aged -1 at the time of the last hung parliament, what is currently happening this week in Westminster is, for me, history in the making. And I'm loving it.

Just this evening, we have seen (i) the PM resign, (ii) the possibility of the (to some extent) assumed Tory/Lib Dem coalition being thrown into disarray by (iii) the now possible Labour/Lib Dem coalition being offered. And then (iv) the Tories hang out an Alternative Vote Referendum carrot. If you turn off, you'll miss something. And I'm still recovering from having little sleep on election night.

The great irony is that it is Nick Clegg's Lib Dems, who came third in the election, and who lost seats rather than gained any new ones, who will now ultimately decide when and how this ends. Nick Clegg is the politician who now has all the power in Westminster at the moment, even though that will immediately end once he chooses in which direction he will turn his party. My view is that it should be towards the Conservatives, for fear of business only being possible with some almighty (and therefore unmanageable) coalition of Labour, Lib Dem, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, Greens and the DUP.

Meanwhile, the age of 24 hour news coverage is coming into its own. Many times I have railed against Sky News, but the effect of actually now having enough newsworthy events to (probably for the first time) fill a rolling news program for several continuous hours has shown them to be woefully not up to the job. Just in the last two days we have had this...

Then half an hour later (and as a direct result) came this....

And then the normally unflappable, albeit a little pompous Adam Boulton (Sky's answer to David Dimbleby), although probably a little tired after goodness knows how many continuous days of work, showed his true colours with this 'debate' with Alastair Campbell.

I'll admit on this occasion, that you wouldn't see these kind of things on the BBC. The Guardian summed it all up well here.

Great stuff.