This is a perfect example of the dangers of third parties
both Labor and the Lib Dems lost seats despite “CleggMania” and yet the LIb Dems get to play kingmaker and right now effectively propping up Labor.
who knows whats going to happen over there now
Clegg wants proportional representation which would keep Lib_Lab in power forever
This is a perfect example of the dangers of third parties
At least in a Parliamentary system, they hash it out at the beginning and arrive at a coalition that hangs together for however long it can.
Under our system, a strong 3rd. party insurgency would force something like this to happen on every piece of legislation that came along.
(of course, it that had the effect of stopping Congress from doing anything, probably not a bad thing)