We recommend one thing about future politics in Britain and throughout the world: everyone, all of us  every single person, group, movement, parties and governments need to "listen more".

We say this not just because some have not and it seems still do not listen but because the mathematics of "victory" and control are probably more finely balanced than ever before. 

And as any mother or father will will tell you more importantly because it (listening more) is polite and responsible.

A LibCon Mandate ?

The 39 (steps) seats of separation.

Labour can look at the 2010 results and clearly see too many Labour seats were lost by a whisker or two. To name only a few:

Similarly in many seats that Labour won, even the combined accumlative Lib-Dem Tory vote didn't match up; and so in those areas particularly there was no suggested consensus of a LibCon mandate.

And even in a good number of the lost Labour seats the LibCon mandate and their practises could be and in future will be tested. For example it will be in areas like Cleethorpes (Con) the margin of difference roughly 3,300 with 8,000 Liberal votes that the fight will have to be fought and won.

Other areas returning comparable results include Erewash (Con), Worcester (con), Loughboro (Con), Lincoln (Con),  Northampton North (con), Corby (Con), Brentford & Isleworth (con), Ealing Central & Acton (con), Croydon central (con), Bedford (con), Halesowen & Rowley Regis (con), and Stevenage (con).

Then throw in the likes of Birmingham Yardley (LibDem) where Labour and Liberal were neck and neck or indeed Watford (con) and Cambridge (LibDem) where Labour came a high scoring third. The results in seats like these could be seen as more skewed (or even skewered) than we might initially realise!

Factor in one or two seats like the Wyre Forest (con) where the "Independent Community & Health Concern party" commanded a high scoring second place and possibly single handedly punished Labour to third instead of first (though still ahead of the Liberals in fourth). The picture of defeat among all the fudging becomes ever clearer.

Now just the taking or re-taking these twenty nine seats could have and would drastically change the appearance and validity of any mandate for any coalition:

Labour                  287

Conservatives        280

Liberal Democrats  54

All this to ponder before we analyse the rest of the country (the rest of the west midlands, the south west, north west and north east, Wales and Scotland) oh, and the other 54 Liberal Democrat seats! Here you can include the very narrowly won seat of Warwickshire North (con), then the other to be targeted seats of Stockton south (con), Redcar (con) Warwick & Leamington (con) Cardiff central (Lib), Preseli Pembrokeshire (con), Edinburgh west (Lib) although Labour's candidate is ominously named Cameron Day, Dumbartonshire east (Lib), Dumfrieshire Clydesdale & Tweedale (con), and Argylle & Bute (Lib).

These included would have taken Labour up to 297 seats, the conservatives down to 274 and the Liberal Democrats pegged back at 50. Despite the fact that the tories admirably improved on their three previous election results and that in many of the seats they won they did so with a large majority, the result and the rationale for a Liberal Conservative alliance is a damn sight closer and foggier than the grinning duo of the new dynamics would have us believe.

The overall result (and the prevailing LibCon "agreement") is obvious that these seats alone wouldn't necessarily make any future difference or indeed that the loss of these seats alone was the reason for Labours defeat. No the reasons are more diverse and preposterous: the irresponsible comments by Manish Sood; the microphone incident, the hostile media and their assasination attempts and several wars had more to do with it but even with these variables one of the begged questions remains pertinent: would people have voted differently if they knew that one party was  more likely to deal with another?

So now with a more transparent reflection at hand, if Gordon Brown and New Labour could be accused of squatting in Downing Street, many (especially Liberal Democrat voters) can be forgiven for thinking that David and Nick are guilty of misleading the landlady the nation and mass mis-information.

What people Are Saying

 On Facebook there are many views expressed in forms of anti or pro coalitions aswell as many other political pages here is a funny one

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NEXT TIME I VOTE:

 FOR THE FLAT FACE CAT

DRASTIC CHANGES

CHANGES TO LIBERAL/DEMOCRATS WEBSITE http://www.libdems.org.uk/home.aspx

MANIFESTO 2010

 And the Conservatives

http://www.conservatives.com/

MANIFESTO 2010

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