It is exciting and uncertain times in the UK at the moment. The general election was three days ago, but I am just now recooping from the whole thing. May 6th more people than ever showed up at the voting polls all across the country. The major players? Labour leader and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Conservative Cool guy David Cameron, and the head of the Dream Liberal Democrat team Nick Clegg.
I’ve certainly had fun catching up on how the heck the political system is run here (still not 100% sure). I’ve covered a hustings of local MP (Member of Parliament) candidates, which I found out is a political debate and has nothing to do with corn at all. I helped out at TalkSport during their overnight Election Special with Ian Collins and Adrian Goldberg. That, I have to say was a complete BLAST! Up all night running on coffee, sugar and adrenaline. Being there as all the latest counts were coming in all over the country.
Lots of controversial issues though, throughout the night. Students in Sheffield, Lewisham and some other places weren’t able to vote. Scandalous! Some big upsets of MP’s not getting re-elected. Not knowing whether there was going to be a Hung Parliament or not…but kinda knowing it was inevidable. And yes…I DID have to google what a hung parliament actually was. If you dont know, then I wont take away the thrill of you going and googling it yourself.
Fully exhausted on Friday I went out to the Mayoral election results for the borough that I live in (Lewisham), and got to meet and take the cutest darn picture of the re-elected Mayor, Steve Bullock. As of right now, the country is still in a Hung Parliament. It looks like the Conservatives are going to gobble up the Lib-Dems and spew out a coalition government. And me, not a UK resident, feels slighty giddy that in less than 2 months I get to go back to the wonderful land of Barack Obama. So, to celebrate my lack of emotional connection to this election I’ve had a little fun putting together a fun diddy to catch you up.
Feast your ears on this. Starring (in order of appearance) Nick Clegg, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, with a small cameo by Ed Miliband at the end. Time guys for a little less conversation…a little more…well you know the rest….
Hung Parliament Montage
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