I thought David Cameron’s claim to power amusing. He has constantly preached change with little attention to detail. His message was the same after the results were published suggesting that the Labour Government had no mandate to govern. An interesting observation looking at the votes in percentage terms with almost two thirds of the votes cast against the Conservatives.
His party has the greatest number of seats but calculated simply on the basis of share of the vote, the number of seats would be 234 rather than 306 while the Lib Dems shoot up from 57 to 149.
Gordon Brown was quick to offer Nick Clegg a referendum on electoral reform which must be tempting for the Lib Dems, far more so than the suggestion of yet another committee of MPs offered by David Cameron.
Back in March The Constitution Society published an article on the Tory proposals for electoral reform. It makes interesting reading:
http://www.re-constitution.org.uk/news/articles/16/ .
Postscript
Far more graphic view on the share of the vote:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/05/electoral-reform-stay-table#reader-comments
Have a look at the John Cleese video for a good titter.
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