Unfortunately, it's been a pretty big deal here and I haven't been able to avoid the basics of all of this so I'll try to explain a bit more in detail if anyone cares.

Basically the Labour party is far left socialist while the Conservative party is equivilent to our Republican party. The piggie in the middle throughout the last few days has been the Liberal Democrat party (equivalent to our Democrat party) because they won 58 seats of Parliament and neither of the other parties got an overall majority of seats for it to be a clear government (Tories got 306 while Labour got 258 I think where the majority is 326). So both parties needed an alliance with the Lib Dems to win basically.

It's a pretty bizarre system I must say where a party can get 10% more of the popular vote, have more seats (basically electoral votes in the US system), and still not be the winner. Also the country is voting for a party, not for a particular leader so the party can appoint anyone they want to as Prime Minister.

Anyway that's what's been going on the last few days. Labour and Conservatives were fighting over the Lib Dems trying to get them to join with their party so they could win. As I said before, Labour is far left, and the Lib Dems are left liberals as well so it's kind of strange that they chose to align with the Conservatives at the end of the day. The word is that Labour never seriously entertained any kind of deal because they want either all power or none.

Tony Blair playing kissy with Bush didn't cause the downfall of Gordon Brown and Labour Syd. Browns insanely socialist views and scandals over the last few years are what defeated them. Labour has changed the way counties are divided in order to manipulate future votes, there's been a recent scandal that's come out where evidence was found of Labour allowing as many immigrants as possible into the country and giving them jobs in order to push conservative English people out so as to more easily secure future votes so they might be in power forever, and Labour's obsession with giving as much money to the EU for nothing in return; most recently bailing out Greece no matter the consequence to the British economy.

That kind of stuff is why Labour was ousted (even though their manipulations like I mentioned above, and them turning away voters during the election made it a daunting task) and it's a good step toward Britain getting back on her feet. This country is really in a mess after the last 13 years, especially when it comes to immigration. If anyone really thinks Obama is a socialist and that American politics sucks, I implore you to look across the pond at the Labour party and the damage they did and you'll find we don't even come close in the US.