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THE TORRIES ALMOST HAVE IT

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

But it might not be enough. We're here at the Trafalgar Pub along the Thames as the first exit polls are released and they are predicting that the Torries will have about 305 MPs leaving them 21 short of a majority needed to form a government. Labour will lose about 94 seats but the rumour is that PM Gordon Brown will seek to form a coalition Government with the Liberal Democrats. Labour has much more in common with the Lib Dems then the Conservatives do and tradition appears to hold that the party in power gets the first chance to form a government. The Queen has said she will not see anyone until after lunch tomorrow. Meanwhile there are reports of rioting in Sheffield where the polls closed and thousands of voters were turned away. This could lead to legal challenges to the election and beloved England may well be headed for their own "2000 election crises" that left the US on the verge of a Constitutional crisis before the Supreme Court stepped in, shut down the count, and brazenly ignored as much precedent as they needed to to assure that Bush was elected...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).