>On the gripping hand, as someone who enjoys watching British politics
>(they show the Prime Minister's Question Hour on C-SPAN 1 on Sundays
>here, and I find it vastly enjoyable), I'll thank you for the insight
>from inside about how mucked up things are. So you have that going
>for you.
>
I will probably get disagreement here, but whilst a hung parliament might be really bad in the short term it could be a good thing over a longer period -- none of the major parties are in a good space for running the country at the moment, from either a credibility or policy point of view, but if the dice land right a Lib/Con or Lib/Lab grouping of some kind could hope to push out the best policies of both parties.

Lab/Con would be a disaster of course, but not I feel one that's plausible.

S.