As successive opinion polls indicate that a hung parliament is a likely result of the 2010 General Election, a nationwide poll by Populus shows that almost nine in ten voters (89 per cent) believe that, in those circumstances, it would be “in Britain’s best interests for the political parties to work together and try to agree on measures to address the country’s economic and financial crisis”.
They roundly reject by three to one (75 per cent to 25 per cent) the conventional wisdom that a hung result should be followed by “another General Election to be held fairly soon in the hope that one or other party would win an overall majority and be able to form a government on its own”. Three quarters would prefer “all the parties to agree that there should not be another election for four years and to resolve to work together on the country’s urgent problems”.
By the same margin the voters choose, as being in Britain’s best interests, “the party with most votes working together with other parties in a coalition government to deal with the country’s urgent economic problems”. Only a quarter believe there should be a “second general election to try to get a clear majority for one party”.
There is little comfort for Labour or the Conservatives in the figures.
Instinctively the UK public know where the rottenness in Parliament is.
It's in the mentality of out-of-touch MPs who vote by 476 to reject Fair Voting - see http://liberalconspiracy.org/lc/section/social-history/
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