Keys Corner

With all but one seat now counted, the results of the British elections look like this (ignoring the smaller parties):

With the Liberal Democrats likely to be an important coalition partner in the new government, there is hope that the archaic “first past the post” system in the UK might be reformed to allow a fairer distribution of the seats in parliament in future elections.

Although I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting – the British don’t like coalition governments, as you might guess: the British expression for a (British) coalition government is a “hung Parliament”.