Con-Dem(ned)? maybe.

Well we all did our little choosing bit and, collectively at least, we couldn't. No party returned with an over all majority - you might have noticed, it was a week ago after-all. Any sort of post on here between now and then would have been out of date probably before i even hit send so you can file that under the "excuses" section of my election coverage...

So here we are, after all the negotiation, left with what was really the only viable option given our election results. A conservative minority government would have been undermined within mere months and although there was some flirtation of a Lib-Lab coalition this was a doomed idea when you take into account that it would have been dependent upon the support of the Scottish National Party among others. The SNP would have supported Labour alright, like a rope supports a hanging man (thats my favorite journalistic quip by the way). So to the final option, albeit unlikely, a Conservative and Lib Dem alliance.

There is no reason why their leaders shouldn't get on; both white, privately educated, ox-bridge upper-middle class types. You might well have an easier time telling identical twins apart but, although the new Ant and Dec of Downing Street may be all lovey dovey, the parties are still very different. An agreement seems to have been reached amicably but thats not so hard when its all new and exciting, when the buzz dies down and the disagreements flare up it might not be so easy to find the common ground. Im sure there will be many such incidents for us to pour over in the coming term, indeed there will be plenty of time for it as the ambition for our new PM is that the coalition will last a full five years! let me say it here for you all to remember, I give it two.

That just leaves us with one burning question, what are we to call this mongrel of a government? Lib-Con? Libservative? Con-Dem(ned)? well that may be just right.

I have embedded a video for you to watch instead of my usual cartoon because Its one of those ridiculous moments you should really all see. Just the beginning bit though, feel free to ignore Cameron's Monologue.