I once again, am from the u.s very interested in you politics,I don't get much coverage from any news stations,all I can find is things online,so fill me in if you will.So I know you have a hung parliament so no party can clearly "make a government" I think its called.
It is where no party controls more than 50% of the elected Members of Parliament. As such, if the government introduces a law which the other parties do not like the government can be defeated. There are some votes (motions of no confidence and, I seem to recall, the Queen's Speech and budget bills) on which defeat for the government dissolves parliament causing a new election.
so when Brown steps down who becomes the prime minister
He remains Prime Minister (regardless of him starting to stand down as leader of the Labour Party) until someone else can form a majority at which point he will recommend that person to the Queen to be new Prime Minister.
and i hope there not a member of the tory's,I am not a fan at all of any conservatives.
With the greatest respect, you probably do not quite understand the political landscape over here. Even our Conservatives are to the left of the Democrats. I prefer to take the democratic route and say that if no deal can be done, it should go to the person with the most public support.
I like the lib-dems.Is it true that there is an disagreement with the number of lib-dems that got seats I red that there was some protest on the fairness.
The Lib Dems have a thin smattering of support across the UK whilst the Labour party has great support in urban areas and the Conservatives enjoy the support of the shires. As we have a representative democracy the Lib Dems poll a large amount of the vote but not enough in any areas to actually win seats. The same system has been in place for many years and has worked just fine. Any change will provide a system which will result in this horse trading after every election (which is likely to make it fail at any referendum).
It is a bit like the Electoral College system where one party loses any states it loses by a small margin but wins those states it wins by a huge margin. The end result is that this party has less votes in the Electoral College despite potentially having more votes cast nationwide. Ever since the Liberals (or Whigs as they were also once known) became the third party they have campaigned for PR because it will benefit them. Strangely, the reform Labour is offering (AV) would have given them an even larger majority in the 2001 and 2005 elections. The cynics amongst you may not believe there is any real altruism in the actions of the politicians on this matter.
I think there should be a politics section on this forum.
Only if you like flame wars and lots of bans
Political forums require a more adult approach than is available here (both in terms of what is allowed to be said, and in the approach of the members to the subject) as they rapidly descend into yes-no arguments and mud slinging.
I fear the worst though....
