So the UK election has ended in a "hung parliament" which simply means no single party gained enough seats to be able to form a Government on its own. The party with the biggest number of seats is the Conservatives, but they will need Liberal Democrat support if they are to successfully form a Government.
What does all of this actually mean? Especially to us here in the United States. Well lets start with the fact that in the UK the electoral choice is one of degrees of socialism with the Conservatives being the least socialistic.
Having said that, let's look at some of these quotes from the man most likely to be Prime Minister - David Cameron. "I'm here because I want to bring change to this country. We can restore hope in our future." The emphasis was mine. Oh and a reminder - that's the CONSERVATIVE! Sound familiar? But wait - there's even more!
Cameron wants to create "an army" of 5,000 "trained community organizers to help people tackle social problems". And just this morning in his public offer to the Liberal Democrats, Cameron said he agreed with them and wanted to make Britain a "low carbon economy" - buying into the Global Warming nonsense that even the population of the UK is increasingly distrusting of.
This is relevant to us, because it is a REAL glimpse of our future. If this country re-elects the President in 2012 then Government run health care will be with us forever. The reason? You can never take back a huge entitlement program because the people start to believe it's "free stuff" and even though that's not true, no politician could be elected on a promise to take back "free stuff".
Even Margaret Thatcher said "The National Health Service is safe in our hands". And if she hadn't of said that, she would never have been the greatest Prime Minister in the UK since Churchill.
Where that ultimately leads is to a selection of political parties that are pretty similar. We have the beginnings of that right now with Progressives like Lindsay Graham and Charlie Crist posing as Conservatives. Even though Crist is no longer running as a Republican, he still wants you to believe he's a Conservative. But he's not. He's a Progressive - just another side of the same coin that would find Hillary Clinton on the flip.
So it will take a couple of days for Britain to announce it's new Prime Minister. In all probability it will be David Cameron from the Conservatives as he has the most votes and the most seats at 306 as I write this. But 306 is 20 short of an overall majority and so he will have to deal.
Don't count current Prime Minister Gordon Brown out just yet. He too has made overtures to the Liberal Democrats, but he would actually need other parties as well to get him past the winners' line.
However this turns out, I predict that there will be another general election in the UK within 12 months. When these type of deals are done, they never last!
As for us - well the "special" relationship that exists between the United States and Great Britain has been under strain since our President took office. This will do nothing to improve it, but ultimately the friendship will be renewed with new leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.
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