Gordon, David, Nick? And the winner is...

…we don’t know. We only know that the tories have won most of the seats in Britain's parliament but not enough for being able to govern the country. We know that Labour has lost a big chunk of their seats and that the LibDems couldn’t hit their election targets. And we know that Nick Clegg is obviously the most powerful man in the UK these days. How come?

The winner of the elections has to form a hung parliament. While this is a quite normal process as outcome of general elections in most of the other European countries the Britons seem to struggle a bit understanding that two or more different parties could work together in the parliament, potentially. Conservatives are negotiating with the Liberal Democrats, Labour are talking to other parties (nobody knows why), the Conservatives will have to talk to Labour if they fail to build a government with the LibDems… Three days after the elections they are aiming to find an agreement in 24 hours. This is pretty impressive when keeping in mind that it took weeks and even months to build coalitions in Austria and Germany in the past.

Talking about the parties two thoughts come to my mind: Are the Britons really so conservative (the Guardian says 'Britain is more Cameronian than Conservative')? and: What about the others? There must be people in this country who do not agree with one of the three major parties. Hence there must be other parties. Fortunately there are! However I was a bit surprised when reading: Briton's got it's first Green MP. Does this mean that never before the Greens took part in any kind of parliamentary sessions?? This is quite shocking. Anyway: Congratulations British Greens! Keep spreading your ideas out of your capital Brighton into the entire country.

There are even more good news: the BNP has lost all 12 of it's seats in Barking. Congratulations, Barking! Getting rid of the right wing parties is the only reasonable way for a better political future.