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The Government

2 Years OnBy Matt Goodman

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How Did it Happen?

On April 12th2010 the Labour Government that had been in powerfrom 1996 had started to lose its power in the commons and was under pressurefrom all other parties called a general election.

The election was held on May 6th. The result of the election was a hung parliamentthis meant that no one party had achieved the majority required to have power inthe commons.

UK General Election

Result 2010

Conservative

Labour

Lib Dem

Others

The conservatives had to join up with one ofeither Labour of the Lib Dems.

The Lib Dems were chosen and the coalitiongovernment was born.

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What was Next for the ?

Just days after May 6th

both Nick Clegg and David Cameron emerged together totake the first press conference as coalition leaders.

Since then the coalition has made cuts to help bring the economy back from thebrink and as of last quarter the economy had risen.

The coalition and infect all of the house of commons agreed to withdraw troopsfrom Afghanistan. With 3,800 troops set to leave in 2013.

Also in past 2 years the coalition many the Lib Dems pushed forward the idea ofan AV voting scheme where you vote for a person not a party to run yourcountry.

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Division within

In Britain we have three major parties(Labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems). All three have veryDifferent political ideas; Labour want what is best for the working class,while the Conservatives want what is best fro the upper and middle class.However the Lib Dems would say that their ideas land with all three classes.

This is why When we had a hung parliament in 2010 the Conservatives wen twith the Lib Dems rather than Labour.

This partnership has not been without trouble as many Lib Dem andConservative back benches feel that both parties are not following the agreementsmade when they decided to create the Coalition.

Even the public can see that the Lib Dems are not getting the power that theythought they might get as the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has been given thename as tea boy.

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The publics view on the the coalition is of a Governmentthat is not sure of its identity among other governmentacross Europe many think that the Cameron Ministry is week.

This has been shown across the last 2 years in many occasions for example,when many of Europe's top countries were talking about how to save the

euro David Cameron was not even involved in the major speaking.

Even though Brittan doesnt use the Euro you would of thought that wewould have been involved in the negotiating on how to fix it.

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