{"id":2674,"date":"2010-05-07T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2010-05-07T04:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:30:37","slug":"uk-election-conservatives-short-of-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/05\/07\/uk-election-conservatives-short-of-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Election :: Conservatives Short of Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The BBC just announced a hung Parliament, as the Conservatives with a plurality of seats are mathematically eliminated from obtaining a majority with 35 seats to declare. The last time this occurred was 1974. Let the party negotiations begin. Lib-Lab coalition likely to be negotiated and will Clegg’s Lib Dems push for parliamentary reform to do away with first-past-the-post<\/a><\/strong> {winner take all in a constituency}. While some say a “coalition of losers” won’t have legitimacy in the eyes of the electorate, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman\u00a0says the current Prime Minister Gordon Brown is constitutionally obligated to try to form a government.<\/p>\n

Live coverage from BBC News is available here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Twitterversion::<\/strong> BBC calls a hung Parliament, as Tories w\/ an expected plurality of seats will be short of majority of 326. #ThickCulture http:\/\/url.ie\/62oy\u00a0@Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC just announced a hung Parliament, as the Conservatives with a plurality of seats are mathematically eliminated from obtaining a majority with 35 seats to declare. The last time this occurred was 1974. Let the party negotiations begin. Lib-Lab coalition likely to be negotiated and will Clegg’s Lib Dems push for parliamentary reform to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2363,234,4477,808,4461,4476],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-democracy","tag-killing-joke","tag-parliamentary-politics","tag-uk-elections","tag-uk-politiics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}